Pioneer VSX-AX4AVi-G manual Listening to your system Listening in stereo, Using Stream Direct

Listening to your system

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 and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

STATUS	SIGNAL SEL	SBch	STEREO
MULTI OPE	THX	STANDARD	ADV. SURR

SHIFT PHASE MCACC S.DIRECT

•While listening to a source, press STEREO for stereo playback.

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 (see Stream direct with different input signal formats on page 84).

STATUS	SIGNAL SEL	SBch	STEREO
MULTI OPE	THX	STANDARD	ADV. SURR

SHIFT PHASE MCACC S.DIRECT

1 While listening to a source, press S.DIRECT

(AUTO SURR/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.

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Selecting MCACC presets

• Default setting: MEMORY 1

If you have calibrated your system for different listening

positions2, you can switch between settings to suit the kind of source you’re listening to and where you’re sitting (for example, watching movies from a sofa, or playing a video game close to the TV).

STATUS	SIGNAL SEL	SBch	STEREO
MULTI OPE	THX	STANDARD	ADV. SURR

SHIFT PHASE MCACC S.DIRECT

•While listening to a source, press MCACC (MCACC POSITION).

Press repeatedly to select one of the six MCACC presets3 or to switch calibration off. See Data Management on page 41 to check and manage your current settings.

Choosing the input signal

You need to hook up a component to both analog and digital inputs on the receiver to select between input

signals.4

STATUS	SIGNAL SEL	SBch	STEREO
MULTI OPE	THX	STANDARD	ADV. SURR

SHIFT PHASE MCACC S.DIRECT

•Press SIGNAL SEL (SIGNAL SELECT) to select the input signal corresponding to the source component.

•AUTO SURROUND – See Auto playback on page 27.

•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 and hi-bit/hi-sampling settings. You will hear sources according to the number of channels in the signal.

•PURE DIRECT – Analog and PCM sources are heard without any digital processing.1 No sound is output from the Second Zone in this mode.

Each press cycles through the options as follows:

•AUTO – This is the default setting. The receiver selects the first available signal in the following order: ; HDMI; DIGITAL; ANALOG.

•ANALOG – Selects an analog signal.

•DIGITAL – Selects an optical or coaxial digital signal.

•HDMI – Selects an HDMI signal.5

• – Selects an i.LINK signal (VSX-AX4AVi only).

Note

1There are cases where a brief noise is heard before playback of sources other than PCM. Please select AUTO SURROUND or DIRECT if this is a problem.

2Different presets might also have separate calibration settings for the same listening position, depending on how you’re using your system. These pre- sets can be set in Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 7 or Automatic MCACC (Expert) on page 33, either of which you should have already completed.

3You can’t use these settings when MULTI CH IN is switched on, and they has no effect when headphones are connected.

4• This receiver can only play back Dolby Digital, PCM (32kHz–96 kHz), DTS (including DTS 96kHz/24 bit) and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other digital signal formats, set to ANALOG (the MULTI CH IN, TUNER, PHONO and iPod input functions are all fixed to ANALOG).

•You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make the proper digital connec- tions (page 15) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.

•Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.

•Even when i.LINK is selected and the i.LINK indicator lights, you won’t hear any sound if the output settings of your i.LINK device are off.

•The input signal for unassigned i.LINK-equipped components is fixed to . See Checking the i.LINK inputs on page 49.

5When the HDMI option in Setting the AV options on page 63 is set to THROUGH, the sound will be heard through your TV, not from this receiver.

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