Pioneer VSX-917V Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ, Using surround back channel processing

Listening to your system 05

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

•AUTOSURR. – See Auto playback on page 28.

•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 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 8 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 38. Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic Calibration Equalization.

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•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.

•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

6.1decoding 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 originally 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

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• CUSTOM 1/2 – Custom settings

Note

1• You can’t use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, Stream Direct mode, WMA9 Pro or XM HD Surround, and it has no effect with headphones.

•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 41. Also, the Surround back speaker setting on page 35 must be set to Normal (SB) to hear the surround back channel.

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