Rotel RSP-1066 owner manual Manually Selecting Surround Modes, 2CH Button, DOLBY PLII/3ST Button

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Manually Selecting

Surround Modes

Four front panel MODE buttons and the SUR+ button on the remote provide manual selec- tion of surround sound settings when you wish to use a surround mode that is not automati- cally detected or, in some cases, when you wish to override an automatic setting.

Manual settings available from the front panel and/or the remote might be used when you want to play:

•standard 2-channel stereo (left/right speak- ers only) – press the 2CH button

•Dolby 3-channel stereo (left/right/center) or Pro Logic II processing of any source material, including material that is not Dolby Surround encoded -- press the Dolby PLII/ 3ST button to toggle to the desired mode.

•Derived 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1-channel surround for music or cinema from 2-channel sources using DTS Neo:6 processing – press the DTS Neo:6 button.

•5-channel or 7-channel stereo from 2-chan- nel sources -- press the DSP button to toggle to the 5CH Stereo or 7CH Stereo setting.

•Four DSP ambience settings simulating concert halls - press the DSP button to toggle to the desired MUSIC effect.

The manual surround sound options are only available for certain source material and sur- round modes. Some discs may automatically activate one of the following surround modes with override options as follows:

•DTS, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, Dolby Digital, MP3, HDCD (96kHz), and PCM 2-channel (96kHz) digital signals are auto-detected and cannot be overrid- den.

•HDCD (non 96kHZ) and PCM 2-channel (non 96kHZ) digital signals can be over- ridden to Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby 3-Ste- reo, DTS Neo:6, Music 1 – 4, 5CH Ste- reo, 7CH Stereo, and Stereo.

•Dolby Digital 2-channel Stereo can be over- ridden to Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby 3-Ste- reo, and Stereo.

The following topics describe the use of each of the surround mode buttons in greater detail.

2CH Button

Press this button to activate conventional 2- speaker stereo mode with no surround sound or other processing. This is “pure” stereo, us- ing the front left and front right speakers (with or without subwoofer), with no surround chan- nels and no center channel.

When used with Dolby Digital or DTS source material, the 2CH button engages a downmix feature, combining all of the channels and sending them to the front speakers. The spatial effects of surround sound are lost, but all of the informa- tion on the original recording are preserved.

NOTE: 2CH mode allows you to hear 2-chan- nel stereo recordings in their original format using the analog inputs.

DOLBY PLII/3ST Button

This button offers two settings for Dolby pro- cessing: Dolby Pro Logic II and Dolby 3-Ste- reo. Press the button once to activate Dolby Pro Logic II (with the last used settings). Press again to toggle to the Dolby 3-Stereo setting. A front-panel display indicator shows the se- lected mode.

Use Dolby 3-Stereo for playback on front and center speakers, but no rear surround. With stereo recordings, it derives a center channel signal. With 5.1 channel recordings, the sur- round channels are mixed into the front speak- ers for a larger, more ambient sound than con- ventional stereo.

Dolby Pro Logic II decodes surround sound from any matrix encoded Dolby Surround 2-chan- nel recording. It also can be used to create ambience in 2-channel musical source mate- rial that is not Dolby Surround encoded.

There are three optional modes for Dolby Pro Logic II decoding:

MUSIC: optimized for music.

CINEMA: optimized for movie soundtracks.

EMULATION: emulates the older Dolby Pro Logic decoder with mono frequency-limited surround channels.

When the PRO LOGIC II setting is selected, the front-panel display shows that Pro Logic II decoding is activated, along with the current mode setting (MUSIC, CINEMA, EMULATION).

The mode setting can be changed using the ON-SCREEN MENU system. You can also switch among the three mode settings (MUSIC, CIN- EMA, EMULATION) by pressing the +/– but- tons on the remote control. However, this feature works only when the Pro Logic II sur- round mode is active and when the ON-SCREEN MENU system is not being displayed.

NOTE: If you have one or more center back speakers, the Rotel XS processing automati- cally optimizes the surround output for 6.1 and 7.1 systems. Rotel XS works with all mul- tichannel digital signals, including Dolby Digi- tal Surround EX discs as well as sources that would not otherwise activate an extended surround decoder.

DTS Neo:6 Button

The DTS Neo:6® mode provides advanced matrix processing to generate 5.1 and 6.1 surround channels from two-channel source material, much like Dolby Pro Logic II. DTS Neo:6 can process analog 2 channel sources, digital 2-channel sources, and matrix encoded digital 2-channel sources.

DTS Neo:6 features two different decoding settings, one optimized for music sources and the other optimized for cinema sources. Press the DTS Neo:6 button to activate Neo:6 pro- cessing in the last previously used mode. The DTS icon lights and the label Neo:6 scrolls in the FL display followed by “CINEMA” or “MUSIC” depending on the currently active mode.

Press the Neo:6 button again to toggle to the Neo:6 CINEMA mode. You can also change the Neo:6 mode using the ON-SCREEN MENU system. Or, you can press the +/– buttons on the remote after Neo:6 is activated to change between cinema to music modes: however, this feature only works when Neo:6 processing is active and the ON-SCREEN MENU system is not being displayed.

NOTE: It is not necessary to press this button when playing a DTS or DTS-ES encoded digi- tal disc. Activation of the correct decoding for these discs is automatic, as indicated by the illumination of the DTS indicator in the front-panel display.