Pioneer VSX-52TX Using the Virtual Surround Back, mode VirtualSB, Listening to your system, Neo

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Using the Virtual Surround Back

• Press EXTENDED MODE (front panel) repeatedly

mode (VirtualSB)

to cycle the virtual surround back channel options.

Each press cycles through the options as follows:

When you’re not using surround back speakers,

• VirtualSB ON – Virtual Surround Back is always used

selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround

(for example, on 5.1 encoded material)

back channel through your surround speakers. For

• VirtualSB AUTO – Virtual Surround Back is

example, you can choose to listen to sources with no

surround back channel information (for example, 5.1

automatically applied to 6.1 encoded sources (for

encoded material) with emulated 6.1 encoding

example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)

(VirtualSB ON). Sometimes the material may sound

• VirtualSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is

better in the 5.1 format for which it was originally

switched off

encoded. In this case you can have the receiver only

apply this effect to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital

Note

EX or DTS-ES (VirtualSB AUTO), or you can simply

switch it off (VirtualSB OFF).

• You can’t use the Virtual Surround Back mode with

The table indicates when you will hear the virtual

headphones, or with the THX or STEREO / DIRECT

surround back channel. (

=Virtual surround back

modes.

channel is active)

• You can only use the Virtual Surround Back mode if

the surround speakers are on and the Surr Back

setting is set to NO in the Speaker Setting on page 44.

TUNER

TUNING/

MIDNIGHT/

ACOUSTIC

DIALOG

MULTI CH

SIGNAL

EXTENDED

EDIT

STATION

BAND

MPX LOUDNESS

TONE

EQ

ENHANCEMENT

IN

SELECT

MODE SPEAKERS

• You can’t hear the virtual surround back channel with

TUNER

MULTI

MULTI

CONTROL

JOG

JOG

MULTI ROOM

VIDEO2 INPUT

DTS 96kHz/24 bit or PCM 96/88.2kHz sources.

SYSTEM

MCACC

RETURN

CONTROL

ON/OFF

SETUP

SETUP MIC

• The Virtual Surround Back mode cannot be applied

MULTI JOG

MULTI JOG

DIGITAL IN

S-VIDEO

VIDEO

L AUDIO R

PHONES

to sources that do not have surround channel

information.

VirtualSB

Standard

Advanced

Type of source

Multichannel

Stereo sources

mode

surround

sources

2Pro Logic II 2 Pro Logic

Neo:6

Dolby Digital EX/DTS-ES encoded

ON

multichannel source with 6.1ch

AUTO

surround

Dolby Digital/DTS encoded

ON

multichannel source

AUTO

Dolby Digital/DTS encoded stereo

ON

source; other digital stereo source

AUTO

Analog 2-channel (stereo) source

ON

AUTO

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