Listening to your system

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Setting

What it does

Options

• While listening to a source, press

STEREO/F.S.SURR to select Front Stage

 

 

 

Effect

Sets the effect level for the

10 to 90

Surround Advance modes.

 

currently selected Advanced

STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for

 

Surround mode (each mode

 

 

 

more on this.

 

can be set separately).

 

 

 

F.S.S.FOCUS – Use to provide a rich

 

 

 

a Only available with 2 ch sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Mu-

surround sound effect directed to the

sic mode (also available with 2 Pro Logic II

5.1sound).

center of where the front left and right

b Only available with 2 ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.

speakers sound projection area converges.

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Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO you will hear the source through just the front left and right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer depending on your speaker settings).

Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

AUTO SURR

STEREO/

STANDARD ADV.SURR

F.S.SURR

While listening to a source, press STEREO/F.S.SURR for stereo playback. Press repeatedly to switch between:

STEREO – The audio is heard with your surround settings and you can still use the Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.

F.S.S.FOCUS – See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this.

F.S.S. WIDE – See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this.

F.S.S. WIDE – Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.1

 

FOCUS position (Recommend)

WIDE position

 

 

Front left

Front right

Front left

Front right

 

 

speaker

speaker

speaker

speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

AUTO SURR

STEREO/

STANDARD ADV.SURR

F.S.SURR

While listening to a source, press AUTO SURR to select the Stream Direct mode.

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Using Front Stage Surround Advance

The Front Stage Surround Advance function allows you to create natural surround sound effects using just the front speakers and the subwoofer.

AUTO SURR

STEREO/

STANDARD ADV.SURR

F.S.SURR

AUTOSURR. – See Auto playback on page 29.

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

Note

1When using F.S.S. WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if Auto MCACC Setup is performed. For more on this, refer to Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 9.

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Pioneer VSX-917V-S/-K Listening in stereo, Using Stream Direct, Using Front Stage Surround Advance, Surround Advance modes