06Listening to your system
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode (VirtualSB)
Selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual back channel through your surround speakers. For example, you can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information (for example, 5.1 encoded material) with emulated 6.1 encoding (VSB ON). Sometimes the material may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it was originally encoded. In this case you can have the receiver only apply this effect to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS- ES (VSB AUTO), or you can simply switch it off
The table indicates when you will hear the virtual surround back channel.
•Press EXTENDED MODE (front panel) repeatedly to select a virtual surround back channel option.
Press repeatedly to select between:
•VSB ON – Virtual Surround Back is always used (for example, on 5.1 encoded material)
•VSB AUTO – Virtual Surround Back is automatically applied to 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or
•VSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is
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Type of source
VSB
mode
switched off
Standard
Multichannel | Stereo sources |
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sources | 2Pro Logic II 2 Pro Logic | Neo:6 |
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Advanced surround
Dolby Digital EX/ | ON | |
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AUTO | ||
multichannel source | ||
with 6.1ch surround |
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Dolby Digital/DTS | ON | |
encoded |
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AUTO | ||
multichannel source | ||
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Dolby Digital/DTS | ON | |
encoded stereo |
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AUTO | ||
source; other digital | ||
stereo source |
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Analog | ON | |
(stereo) source |
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AUTO | ||
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Note
1• You can’t use the Virtual Surround Back mode with headphones or the STEREO / DIRECT mode.
•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 51.
•The Virtual Surround Back mode cannot be applied to sources that do not have surround channel information.
•You can’t adjust the surround back channel level when you’re listening to the virtual surround back channel.
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