05Listening to your system

Chapter 5:

Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode

This receiver offers a variety of listening modes to accommodate playback of various audio formats. Choose one according to your speaker environment or the source.

While listening to a source, press the listening mode button repeatedly to select a listening mode you want.

 

AUTO/

 

ALC/

BD MENU

 

 

DIRECT

STEREO

STANDARD

ADV SURR

 

 

AUDIO

 

TUNER EDIT

MASTER

 

 

PARAMETER

 

TOOLS

VOLUME

 

DISPLAY

BAND

TUNER EDIT

TUNE

 

AUTO SURROUND/

ALC/

ADVANCED

SOUND

iPod iPhone iPad

STREAM DIRECT STANDARD SURR

SURROUND

RETRIEVER AIR

DIRECT CONTROL

•The listening mode is shown on the display on the front panel.

Important

•The listening modes and many features described in this section may not be available depending on the current source, settings and status of the receiver.

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Auto playback

AUTO/ STREAM DIRECT

 

AUTO SURROUND/

 

DIRECT

The simplest, most direct listening option is the AUTO SURROUND feature. With this, the receiver automatically detects what kind of source you’re playing and selects multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.

•Press AUTO/DIRECT repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND shows briefly in the display (it will then show the decoding or playback format). Check the digital format indicators in the display to see how the source is being processed.

Note

•Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE (see Listening in surround sound below for more on these decoding formats).

•When listening to the ADAPTER input, the S.R AIR feature is selected automatically (see Using the Advanced surround on page 33 for more on this).

Listening in surround sound STANDARDALC/

ALC/

STANDARD SURR

Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in surround sound. However, the options available will depend on your speaker setup and the type of source you’re listening to.

•If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround encoded, the proper decoding format will automatically be selected and shows in the display.

When you select STEREO ALC (Auto Level Control stereo mode), this unit equalizes playback sound levels if each sound level varies with the music source recorded in a portable audio player.

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 and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

The following modes provide basic surround sound for stereo and multichannel sources.

Explanatory notes

No: No connected / Yes: Connected / Two: Two speakers are

connected / –:Whether connected or no

Type of surround

Suitable sources

Surroundback speaker(s)

heightFront speakers

modes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two channel sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STEREO ALC

See above.

–

–

DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE

Movie

Yesa

No

 

DOLBY PLII MOVIE

 

No

–

 

DOLBY PLIIx MUSICb

Music

Yesa

No

 

DOLBY PLII MUSICb

 

No

–

 

DOLBY PLIIx GAME

Video games

Yesa

No

 

DOLBY PLII GAME

 

No

–

 

DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHTc

Movie/Music

No

Yes

 

NEO:6 CINEMAd

Movie

–

–

 

NEO:6 MUSICd

Music

–

–

 

DOLBY PRO LOGIC

Old movies

–

–

 

Straight Decodee

No additional effects

No

–

 

STEREOf

See above.

–

–

 

Multichannel sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STEREO ALC

See above.

–

–

DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE

Movie

Twoa

No

 

DOLBY PLII MOVIE

 

No

–

 

DOLBY PLIIx MUSICb

Music

Twoa

No

 

DOLBY PLII MUSICb

 

No

–

 

DOLBY DIGITAL EX

Movie/Music

Yes

No

 

DTS-ES

Movie/Music

Yes

No

 

DTS NEO:6

Movie/Music

Yes

No

 

DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT

Movie/Music

No

Yes

 

Straight Decodee

No additional effects

–

–

 

STEREOf

See above.

–

–

 

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