Sony SGP521 manual Reality for mobile, Super-vivid mode, Enhancing the sound output

X-Reality™ for mobile

Sony's X-Reality™ for mobile technology improves the viewing quality of photos and videos after you take them, giving you clearer, sharper and more natural images. X- Reality™ for mobile is turned on by default, but you can turn it off if you want to reduce battery consumption.

To turn on X-Reality™ for mobile

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Display >Image enhancement.

3Tap the X-Reality for mobile radio button if it is not already selected.

Super-vivid mode

Sony’s super-vivid mode intensifies and saturates the colours for images to increase the sharpness and contrast.

To turn on Super-vivid mode

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Display >Image enhancement.

3Tap the Super-vivid mode radio button if it is not already selected.

Enhancing the sound output

You can enhance the sound of your device by manually enabling individual sound settings such as Equaliser and Surround sound. You can also enable the Dynamic normaliser to minimise volume differences between songs or videos. And you can listen to high-resolution audio using a regular headset (connected via the headset socket) or by connecting your device with a digital-to-analogue converter/amplifier (DAC/amp) by cable via the micro USB port of your device.

To enhance the sound output manually

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Sound > Audio settings.

3 Mark the ClearAudio+ checkbox.

To adjust the sound settings manually

1 From the Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Sound > Audio settings.

3 Unmark the ClearAudio+ checkbox if it is marked.

4 Tap Sound effects.

5 Adjust the sound settings by dragging the frequency band buttons up or down.

The manual adjustment of sound output settings has no effect on voice communication applications. For example, there is no change in the voice call sound quality.

To minimise volume differences using the Dynamic normaliser

1 From the Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Sound > Audio settings.

3 Mark the Dynamic normalizer checkbox.

High-resolution audio

There are different ways to listen to your music and videos in high-resolution audio:

•Connect a headset to your device using the regular headset socket.

•Use the micro USB port with a supported cable to output the sound to a high- resolution digital-to-analogue converter/amplifier (DAC/amp) and then connect your headphones or speakers to it. For example, you can use the Sony PHA-2 Portable Hi-

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