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ENJOYING SURROUND SOUND
■Notes:
•Before surround playback, first perform the speaker setup procedure, etc. on the OSD menu for optimum performance. (For details, refer to "SETTING THE SPEAKER/ROOM EQ SETUP" on page 55.)
•When playing digital signals from the Dolby Digital program source or selecting the surround mode such as Dolby Pro Logic II /Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music, Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker modes, you can adjust their parameters for optimum surround effect. (For details, refer to "SETTING THE SOUND PARAMETER" on page 64.)
•When the EXTERNAL IN is selected as an input source, the surround modes cannot be selected.
Depending on how to select a surround mode, select the auto surround mode or the manual surround mode.
•Each time this button is pressed, the mode changes as follows :
Auto surround mode : The optimum surround mode will be
("AUTO" lights up.) automatically selected depending on the signal format being input.
Manual surround mode : You can select the desired of different surround modes selectable for the signal being input with using the MULTI CONTROL knob or the SURROUND MODE UP/DOWN ( 〉/〈 ) buttons.
■Notes :
•When the SPEAKER button is set to off, the auto surround mode is invalid.
•Even when the auto surround mode is selected and the same type of digital signal format is being input, the optimum surround mode may vary depending on whether the speaker type is set to "NONE" or not.
•When the auto surround mode is selected and the PCM (2 channel) digital signal or the analog stereo signal is being input, only the stereo mode will be selected.
•When the auto surround mode is selected, the surround modes other than the optimum surround mode cannot be selected.
■When selecting the manual surround mode with pressing the SURROUND MODE button on the front panel.
Select the desired surround mode.
• Each time the MULTI CONTROL knob is rotated or the SURROUND MODE UP / DOWN ( >/< ) buttons are pressed, the surround mode changes depending on the input signal format as follows :
| Signal format being input | Selectable surround mode |
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| Dolby Digital EX 6.1 channel sources, | <DOLBY DIGITAL EX, DOLBY D + PLIIx MUSIC>, (DOLBY D + PLIIx MOVIE), |
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| Dolby Digital 5.1 channel sources | DOLBY DIGITAL, DOLBY VS REFERENCE, DOLBY VS WIDE |
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| Dolby Digital 2 channel sources | <DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE, DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC, DOLBY PLIIx GAME>, [DOLBY PLII MOVIE, |
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| DOLBY PLII MUSIC, DOLBY PLII GAME], DOLBY VS REFERENCE, DOLBY VS WIDE |
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| DTS ES Discrete/Matrix 6.1 channel | <corresponding DTS ES mode, DTS + PLIIx MUSIC>, (DTS + PLIIx MOVIE), DTS, |
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| sources | DOLBY VS REFERENCE, DOLBY VS WIDE |
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| DTS sources | DTS, DOLBY VS REFERENCE, DOLBY VS WIDE, <DTS + NEO:6, DTS + PLIIx MUSIC>, |
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| (DTS + PLIIx MOVIE) |
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| DTS 96/24 sources | DTS 96/24, DOLBY VS REFERENCE, DOLBY VS WIDE |
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| <DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE, DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC, DOLBY PLIIx GAME>, [DOLBY PLII MOVIE, |
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| 96 kHz PCM (2 channel) sources | DOLBY PLII MUSIC, DOLBY PLII GAME], NEO:6 CINEMA, NEO:6 MUSIC, |
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| THEATER, HALL, STADIUM |
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| PCM (2 channel) sources, | <DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE, DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC, DOLBY PLIIx GAME>, [DOLBY PLII MOVIE, |
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| DOLBY PLII MUSIC, DOLBY PLII GAME], DOLBY VS REFERENCE, DOLBY VS WIDE, |
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| Analog stereo sources |
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| NEO:6 CINEMA, NEO:6 MUSIC, THEATER, HALL, STADIUM |
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•Depending on surround back speaker setting, some surround modes can be selected or not as follows:
<>: Possible only when surround back speaker is not set to "NONE".
[ ] : Possible only when surround back speaker is set to "NONE".
( ): Possible only when surround back speaker is set to " 2CH".
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