Sherwood RD-6500 Surround Sound, Surround modes, English, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic ll MOVIE

SURROUND SOUND

•This receiver incorporates a sophisticated Digital Signal Processor that allows you to create optimum sound quality and sound atmosphere in your personal Home Theater.

ENGLISH

Surround modes

Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital is the multi-channel digital signal format developed by Dolby Laboratories. Discs bearing the

“		” includes the recording of up to 5. 1 channels
	DOLBY

D I G I T A L

of digital signals, which can reproduce much better sound quality, spatial expansion and dynamic range characteristics than the previous Dolby Surround effect.

Dolby Pro Logic II surround

This mode applies conventional 2- channel signals such as digital PCM or analog stereo signals as well as Dolby Surround signals, etc. to surround processing to offer improvements over conventional Dolby Pro Logic circuits. Dolby Pro Logic ll surround includes 4 modes as follows:

• Dolby Pro Logic ll MOVIE

When enjoying movies, this mode allows you to further enhance the cinematic quality by adding processing that emphasizes the sounds of the action special effects.

•Dolby Pro Logic ll MUSIC

When listening to music, this mode allows you to further enhance the sound quality by adding processing that emphasizes the musical effects.

•Dolby Pro Logic ll MATRIX

When listening to poor FM broadcasts, this mode allows you to further enhance the sound quality by the ultimate cure for poor FM stereo signals.

•Dolby Pro Logic ll CUSTOM

This mode reproduces a delayed signals from the surround channels to emphasize the sense of expansion.

Dolby Pro Logic

Dolby Pro Logic is a specially encoded two channel surround format which consists of four channels (front left, center, front right and surround). Sources bearing the

“ DOLBY SURROUND ” provide the theater-like surround sound.

The surround channel is monaural, but is played through two surround speakers.

Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby”, “Pro Logic”, and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

•The following modes apply conventional 2-channel signals such as digital PCM or analog stereo signals to high performance Digital Processor to recreate sound fields artificially.

MATRIX

This mode reproduces a delayed signals from the surround channels to emphasize the sense of expansion for music sources.

THEATER

This mode provides the effect of being in a movie theater when watching a movie source.

HALL

This mode provides the ambience of a concert hall for classical music sources such as orchestral, chamber music, or an instrumental solo.

STADIUM

This mode provides the expansive sound field to achieve the true stadium effect when watching baseball or soccer games.

CHURCH

This mode provides the ambience of a church for baroque, string orchestral or choral group music.

•When the 6 CH DIRECT INPUTs are connected to the 6 CH decoder for a surround sound such as Dolby Digital, etc., you can enjoy the corresponding surround sound, too. (For details, see the operator’s manual of the component to be connected.)

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