Pioneer VSX-520 manual 04Listening to your system Auto playback, Listening in surround sound

04Listening to your system

Auto playback

The simplest, most direct listening option is the Auto Surround feature. With this, the receiver automatically detects what kind of source you’re playing and selects multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.1

AUTO/	STEREO/	STANDARD	BD MENU
DIRECT	A.L.C.		ADV SURR

•While listening to a source, press AUTO/ DIRECT2 for auto playback of a source. Press repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND shows briefly in the display (it will then show the decoding or playback format). Check the digital format indicators in the display to see how the source is being processed.

Listening in surround sound

Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in surround sound. However, the options available will depend on your speaker setup and the type of source you’re listening to.

The following modes provide basic surround sound for stereo and multichannel sources.

AUTO/	STEREO/	STANDARD	BD MENU
DIRECT	A.L.C.		ADV SURR

•While listening to a source, press

STANDARD.

If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround encoded, the proper decoding format will automatically be selected and shows in the display.

When the surround back and front height speaker are not connected.

With two channel sources, you can select from:

•DOLBY PLII MOVIE – Up to 5.1 channel sound, especially suited to movie sources

•DOLBY PLII MUSIC3 – Up to 5.1 channel sound, especially suited to music sources

•DOLBY PLII GAME – Up to 5.1 channel sound, especially suited for video games

•NEO:6 CINEMA – Up to 5.1 channel sound, especially suited to movie sources

•NEO:6 MUSIC – Up to 5.1 channel sound, especially suited to music sources4

•DOLBY PRO LOGIC – 4.1 channel surround sound

When the front height speaker is connected.

With two channel sources, you can select from:

•DOLBY PLII MOVIE – See above

•DOLBY PLII MUSIC – See above

•DOLBY PLII GAME – See above

•DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT – Up to 7.1 channel sound5

•NEO:6 CINEMA – See above

•NEO:6 MUSIC – See above

•DOLBY PRO LOGIC – See above

•Straight Decode – Plays back without the DOLBY PLII, DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT and NEO:6 effects.

Note

1Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE (see Listening in surround sound above for more on these decoding formats).

2For more options using this button, see Using Stream Direct on page 31.

3When listening to 2-channel sources in DOLBY PLII MUSIC mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust: C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM.. See Setting the Audio options on page 33 to adjust them.

4When listening to 2-channel sources in NEO:6 CINEMA or NEO:6 MUSIC mode, you can also adjust the C.IMG effect (see Setting the Audio options on page 33).

5When listening to 2-channel sources in DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT mode, you can also adjust the H.GAIN effect (see Setting the Audio options on page 33).

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