Pioneer VSX-917V-S/-K Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ, Using Virtual Surround Back VSB

05Listening to your system

to the number of channels in the signal. For analog sources, only Channel Level can be set. All other digital processing can not be set.

Listening with Acoustic

Calibration EQ

•Default setting: OFF / ALL CH (after the Auto MCACC Setup or EQ Auto Setting)

You can listen to sources using the Acoustic Calibration Equalization set in Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 9 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 41. Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic Calibration Equalization.

PHASE ACOUSTIC EQ DIALOG	SOUND
	RETRIEVER

C /C S

•While listening to a source, press

ACOUSTIC EQ.

Press repeatedly to select between:

•ALL CH – No special weighting is given to any one channel.

•F. ALIGN – All speakers are heard in accordance with the front speaker settings.

•CUSTOM 1/2 – Custom settings

•EQ OFF – Switches Acoustic Calibration EQ off.

The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.1

Using surround back channel processing

• Default setting: SB ON

You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you can choose to always use 6.1 decoding (for

example, with 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1 encoded sources, a surround back channel will be generated, but the material may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi- nally encoded (in which case, you can simply

switch surround back processing off).2

The table below indicates when you will hear the surround back channel ( =Sound plays through surround back speaker(s)).

•Press SB ch (SB ch PROCESSING) to select a surround back channel option.

Each press cycles through the following:

•SB ON – 6.1 decoding is always used (for example, a surround back channel will be generated for 5.1 encoded material)

•SB AUTO – Automatically switches to 6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)

•SB OFF – Maximum 5.1 playback

Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB)

When you’re not using surround back speakers, selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround back channel through your surround speakers. You can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information, or if the material sounds better in the format (for example, 5.1) for which it was originally encoded, you can have the receiver only apply this effect to 6.1 encoded

sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES.3

The table indicates when you will hear the virtual surround back channel ( =Sound plays through surround speaker(s)).

Note

1• You can’t use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, Stream Direct mode, WMA9 Pro and it has no effect with head- phones.

•You can only select SB AUTO when Stream Direct mode is on and the surround back speaker is set to LARGE or SMALL in

speaker settings.

2You can’t use the surround back channel with headphones, the Stereo, Front Stage Surround Advance mode, or if the surround back speaker is set to NO in Speaker Setting on page 44. Also, the Surround back speaker setting on page 38 must be set to Normal (SB) to hear the surround back channel.

3• The Virtual Surround Back mode is not effective when using headphones, the Stream Direct, Stereo, Front Stage Surround Advance mode. It is also unavailable if the surround speaker is set to NO in Speaker Setting on page 44 (however, the surround back speaker must be set to NO).

•Depending on the input signal and the Listening Mode, the Virtual Surround Back mode may not be effective.

32

En