05Listening to your system

Chapter 5

Listening to your system

Auto playback

Listening in surround sound

• Default setting: On

Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in

There are many ways to listen back to sources using this

surround sound. However, the listening mode options

and the current active mode may change depending on

receiver, but for the simplest, most direct listening option

your speaker setup, the SB CH mode setting, and the type

is the Stream Direct feature. With this, the receiver

of source you’re listening to.

automatically detects what kind of source you’re playing

 

 

and selects multichannel or stereo playback as

• If you connected surround back speakers, see also

necessary.

Using the surround back channel on page 44 for more

 

on the SB CH mode setting.

 

• While listening to a source, press MOVIE or

 

MUSIC and

(cursor left/right) to select a

 

listening mode, then press ENTER.

 

You can also use the front panel MUSIC and MOVIE

 

buttons instead of the remote control to select listening

 

modes. After selecting the mode you want, simply turn

 

the MULTI JOG dial to cycle through the available

• While listening to a source, press STREAM

options, pressing ENTER to select a mode.

DIRECT on the front panel to switch it on or off.

 

 

The decoding or playback format shows briefly in the

 

 

display before showing STREAM DIRECT. Check the

 

 

digital format indicators in the front panel display to see

 

 

how the source is being processed.

 

MOVIE MUSIC

 

 

MODE

 

 

SURROUND

Note

ENTER

•Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or 2 Pro Logic IIx MOVIE (see Listening in surround sound below for more on these decoding formats).

•The Stream Direct feature is canceled if you connect headphones or select the multichannel analog inputs.

Note

•If the SB CH MODE (page 44) is switched to OFF, or the surround back speakers are set to NO (this happens automatically if the Surround back speaker setting on page 55 is set to anything but Normal System), 2 Pro Logic IIx (below) becomes 2 Pro Logic II (5.1 channel sound).

•When the Virtual Surround Back mode (page 45) is switched on, +VSB will show in the front panel display after modes which are using this feature.

•In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is heard from both surround back speakers.

•You can’t use the MUSIC and MOVIE modes with DVD-A, SACD or sources over 48kHz when using one of the digital inputs (including i.LINK).

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

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