Pioneer VSX-919AH-K manual Listening to your system Using Stream Direct, Default setting SBch on

06Listening to your system

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, and you’re left with the pure analog or digital sound source.

•While listening to a source, press RECEIVER , then press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT (AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM DIRECT) to select the mode you want.

Check the digital format indicators in the front panel display to see how the source is being processed.

•AUTO SURROUND – See Auto playback on page 53.

•ALC – Listening in Auto level control mode (page 53).

•DIRECT – Sources are heard according to the settings made in the Surround Setup (speaker setting, channel level, speaker distance, acoustic calibration EQ, and X- curve), as well as with dual mono, the input attenuator, and any sound delay settings. You will hear sources according to the number of channels in the signal.

•PURE DIRECT – Analog sources are heard without any digital processing. No sound is output from the Speaker B in this mode.

Using surround back channel processing

• Default setting: SBch ON

You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1 or 7.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you can choose to always use 6.1 or 7.1 decoding (for example, with 5.1 encoded material). With

5.1encoded 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 channel processing off).

•With a 7.1-channel surround system, audio signals that have undergone matrix decoding processing through surround back channel processing to which the Up Mix function is added are output from the surround back speakers.

•Press RECEIVER , then press SBch repeatedly to cycle the surround back channel options.

Each press cycles through the options as follows:

•SBch ON – Matrix decoding processing for generating the surround back component from the surround component is turned on.

•SBch AUTO – Matrix decoding processing for generating the surround back component from the surround component is switched automatically. Matrix decoding processing is only performed when surround back channel signals are detected in the input signals.

•SBch OFF – Matrix decoding processing for generating the surround back component from the surround component is turned off.

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