Controls and displays

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Display

Note that the illustration below shows the European model display.

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1 SIGNAL indicators (page 43)

Light to indicate the currently selected input signal. AUTO lights when the receiver is set to select the input signal automatically.

2Digital format indicators

PRO LOGIC II – Lights during Dolby Pro Logic II and Pro Logic IIx processing.

Neo:6 – Lights during Neo:6 processing with 2- channel sources.

2 DIGITAL – Lights when a Dolby Digital signal is detected.

DTS – Lights when a DTS signal is detected.

ES – Lights when a DTS-ES signal is detected.

EX – Lights when a Dolby Digital EX signal is detected.

STEREO – Lights during 2-channel playback.

3LOUDNESS (page 46)

Lights when Loudness listening is active.

4 MIDNIGHT (page 46)

Lights when Midnight listening is active.

5TONE (page 46)

Lights when the tone control is switched on.

6DNR (page 47)

Lights when digital noise reduction is switched on.

7Tuner indicators

STEREO (page 48)

Lights when listening to a stereo FM broadcast in auto/stereo mode.

MONO (page 49)

Lights when the tuner MPX mode is set to mono.

TUNED

Lights when tuned to a broadcast.

European model only:

RDS (page 51)

Lights when an RDS broadcast is received.

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EON (page 52)

EON lights when the EON mode is set, and flashes during reception of an EON broadcast. The indicator lights when the current station carries the EON service.

8SB CH (page 44)

Indicates the surround back channel (or Virtual Surround Back) setting (AUTO, ON or OFF).

9 Program format indicators

These change according to which channels are active in Dolby, DTS, DVD-A and SACD sources.

LS, S and RS will light at the same time to indicate 6.1 channel sources.

L – Left front channel

C – Center channel

R – Right front channel

LS – Left surround channel

S – Surround channel (mono) or surround back channel

RS – Right surround channel

LFE – Low frequency effects channel

– Lights when an LFE signal is detected

10 Speaker indicators (page 71)

Lights to indicate the current speaker system, A and/or B.

11 Listening mode indicators (page 38)

Shows MOVIE or MUSIC when a surround listening mode is selected. DSP will light with a box around it when one of the advanced (DSP) listening modes is selected.

12 Hi-BIT/SAMPLING (page 45)

Lights when the audio scaler is switched on.

13 MULTI-ROOM (page 73)

Lights when the multi room feature is active.

14 Volume level indicator

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Pioneer VSX-AX5Ai-S, VSX-AX5Ai-G manual Controls and displays Display, Tuned

VSX-AX5Ai-S, VSX-AX5Ai-G specifications

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