Listening to your system

Chapter 2

Listening to your system

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About the listening modes

As explained in Home theater sound setup on page 6, there are two basic surround speaker setup options available. You can select any of the listening modes regardless of speaker placement, but you will get the best surround effect by using the listening modes in conjunction with your speaker setup:

•Standard surround 5-spot setup – Use the Standard (Listening in surround sound on page 11) and Advanced (Using Advanced Surround on page 12) surround listening modes with this setup.

•Front surround 3-spot setup – See Using Front Surround on page 12 for the options available with this speaker setup.

Make sure you have completed Using the Auto MCACC setup for optimal surround sound on page 6. For more setup options, see Using the

System Setup menu on page 21.1

Auto listening mode

The Auto listening mode is the simplest way to listen to any source as it was mastered: the output from the speakers mirrors the channels in the source material.

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•Press SURROUND to select the ‘Auto’ listening mode.2

Listening in surround sound

You can listen to stereo or multichannel sources in surround sound. Surround sound is generated from stereo sources using one of the Dolby Pro Logic decoding modes.

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•Press SURROUND repeatedly to select a listening mode.

The choices that appear in the display will vary according to the type of source that’s playing.

•Auto – Auto listening mode (see above)

•Dolby Digital / DTS – Dolby Digital or DTS decoding (depending on the source).3 For a multichannel source, this will be the same as Auto.

•ProLogic – 4.1 channel surround sound for use with any two-channel source

•Movie – Pro Logic II 5.1 channel surround sound, especially suited to movie sources (use with any two-channel source)

•Music – Pro Logic II 5.1 channel surround sound, especially suited to music sources, for use with any two-channel source (see also Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings below)

•Stereo – See Listening in stereo on page 13

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1Certain features explained in this section may not be possible depending on the source (for example, 88.2 / 96 kHz sources), or a conflicting system setting. See Error Messages on page 46 for more on this.

2If the source is Dolby Digital or DTS, the front panel 2 D or DTS indicator lights.

3When listening in Dolby Digital / DTS mode, two-channel material will automatically be played in surround sound using Dol- by Pro Logic II decoding.

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XV-DV333, S-DV434ST, S-DV434, S-DV333, S-DV434SW specifications

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