Listening to your system

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 40. Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic Calibration Equalization.

AUTO/DIRECT

STEREO/

STANDARD

ADVSURR

A.L.C.

ACOUSTIC

DIALOG

SOUND

PHASE

EQ

RETRIEVER

•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 Virtual Surround Back (VSB)

Selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround 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 simply switch it off (VSB OFF).2

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

 

PHASE

 

 

 

 

CONTROL

 

 

 

STANDBY/ON

 

 

 

 

DVD

TV

DVR

VIDEO/PORTABLE

INPUT

 

 

 

 

SELECTOR

 

 

 

 

PHONES

SOUND

 

 

SIGNAL

 

RETRIEVER

VSB MODE

SPEAKERS

SELECT

•Press VSB MODE (front panel) to select a virtual surround back channel option. Each press cycles through the options as follows:

•VSB ON – Virtual Surround Back is always used (for example, on 5.1 encoded material)

•VSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off

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Note

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

2The Virtual Surround Back mode is not effective when using headphones, Stream Direct, Stereo, Auto level control stereo mode, Front Stage Surround Advance mode. It is also unavailable if the surround speaker is set to NO in Speaker Setting on page 42.

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VSX-818V-K, VSX-918V-K specifications

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