05Listening to your system
Using Stream Direct
Use the Stream Direct modes when you want to hear the truest possible reproduction of a source. All unnecessary signal processing is bypassed.
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Above:
•While listening to a source, press AUTO SURR to select Stream Direct mode.
•AUTOSURR. – See Auto playback on page 31.
•DIRECT – Sources are heard according to the settings made in the Surround Setup (speaker setting, channel level, speaker distance), as well as with dual mono, Center Width, Dimension and Panorama settings. You will hear sources according to the number of channels in the signal. For analog sources, only Channel Level can be set. All other digital processing can not be set.
Listening with Acoustic
Calibration EQ
•Default setting: OFF / ALL CH (after the Auto MCACC Setup or EQ Auto Setting)
You can listen to sources using the Acoustic Calibration Equalization set in Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 10 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 41. Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic Calibration Equalization.
PHASE | ACOUSTIC | DIALOG | SOUND |
EQ | RETRIEVER |
EFFECT
•While listening to a source, press (SHIFT +)
ACOUSTIC EQ.
Press repeatedly to select between:
•ALL CH – No special weighting is given to any one channel.
•F. ALIGN – All speakers are heard in accordance with the front speaker settings.
•CUSTOM 1/2 – Custom settings
•EQ OFF – Switches Acoustic Calibration EQ off.
The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.1
Choosing the input signal
• Default setting: AUTO
You need to hook up a component to both analog and digital inputs on the rear of the receiver to select between input signals.2
•Press SIGNAL SELECT (front panel) to select the input signal corresponding to the source component.
Each press cycles through the following:
•AUTO – This automatically switches to DIGITAL if a digital source is detected, otherwise it remains on ANALOG.
•ANALOG – Selects the analog inputs.
•DIGITAL – Selects the digital input. When set to DIGITAL or AUTO, 2 DIGITAL lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.
Note
1You can’t use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, WMA9 Pro and it has no effect with headphones.
2• This receiver can only playback Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other digital signal formats, set to ANALOG.
•You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make the proper digital connections (page 13) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.
•Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.
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