Pioneer VSX-819H Listening to your system Chapter, Auto playback, Listening in surround sound

Listening to your system

Chapter 5:

Listening to your system

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Important

•The listening modes and many features described in this section may not be available depending on the current source, setting and status of the receiver.

Auto playback

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.

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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/
DIRECT	A.L.C. STANDARD	ADV SURR
AUDIO	TUNER EDIT	MASTER

•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.

AUTO/	STEREO/
DIRECT	A.L.C. STANDARD	ADV SURR
AUDIO	TUNER EDIT	MASTER

•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 speaker is 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

•DOLBY PRO LOGIC – 4.1 channel surround sound

When the surround back speaker is connected.4

If you connected surround back speakers, see also Using surround back channel processing on page 37.

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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 36.

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 38 to adjust them.

4• If surround back channel processing (page 37) is switched off, or the surround back speakers are set to NO, DOLBY PLIIx becomes DOLBY PLII (5.1 channel sound).

• In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is heard from both surround back speakers.

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