Pioneer VSX-919AH-S manual 06Listening to your system, Listening in stereo

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06Listening to your system

06Listening to your system

UNPLUGGED – Suitable for acoustic music sources

EXT.STEREO – Gives multichannel sound to a stereo source, using all of your speakers

PHONES SURR – When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround.

Listening in stereo Tip

When an Advanced Surround listening mode is selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the EFFECT parameter in Setting the Audio options on page 63.

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, DTS and WMA9 Pro multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

While listening to a source, press RECEIVER , then press STEREO 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.SURR FOCUS – See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this.

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

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.

While listening to a source, press RECEIVER , then press STEREO to select Front Stage Surround Advance modes.

STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for more on this.

F.S.SURR FOCUS – Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center of where the front left and right speakers sound projection area converges.

F.S.SURR WIDE – Use to provide a

surround sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.1

FOCUS position

 

WIDE position

(Recommended)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front left

Front right

Front left

Frontright

speaker

speaker

 

speaker

speaker

 

 

 

 

 

Using Front Stage Surround Advance Note

1When using F.S.SURR WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if the Full Auto MCACC procedure under Advanced MCACC is performed. For more on this, refer to Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto MCACC) on page 37.

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