Enjoying Surround Sound

You can take advantage of surround sound simply by selecting one of the receiver’s preprogrammed sound fields. They bring the exciting and powerful sound of movie theaters and concert halls into your home. You can also customize the sound fields to obtain the sound you want by changing the various surround parameters.

To fully enjoy surround sound, you must register the number and location of you speakers. See “Multi channel surround setup” starting from page 19 to set the speaker parameters before enjoying surround sound.

Selecting a sound field

You can enjoy surround sound simply by selecting one of the pre-programmed sound fields according to the program you want to listen to.

Press MODE +/– repeatedly to select the sound field you want.

The current sound field is indicated in the display. See pages 28–30 for information on each sound field.

To turn the surround effect off

Press A.F.D., 2CH or MULTI/2CH A. DIRECT (page 30).

Tips

•You can identify the encoding format of program software by looking at its packaging.

Dolby Digital discs are labeled with the

logo, and Dolby Surround encoded programs are

labeled with the

logo.

•When sound signals with a sampling frequency of 96 kHz are input, the sound signals are output in stereo automatically, and the sound field is turned off.

About DCS (Digital Cinema Sound)

The sound fields with DCS marks use DCS technology. When these sound fields are selected, “Digital Cinema Sound” indicator in the display lights up.

DCS is the concept name of the surround technology for home theater developed by Sony. DCS uses the DSP (Digital Signal Processor) technology to reproduce the sound characteristics of an actual cinema cutting studio in Hollywood.

As the Director’s “visual and audio united” effect can be fully reproduced at home, You can much satisfy by enjoying movies at home reproducing powerful theater effect.

xNORMAL SURROUND

Software with multi channel surround audio signals is played back according to the way it was recorded. Software with 2 channel audio signals is decoded with Dolby Pro Logic to create surround effects.

xCINEMA STUDIO EX A–C1)2)DCS

Uses 3D sound imaging of V. MULTI DIMENSION (page 29) to create 5 sets of virtual speakers surrounding the listener from a single pair of actual surround speakers.

(For STR-DB1070) Though this receiver incorporates the 6.1 channel amplifier, you can reproduce the 6.1 channel surround sound with the 5.1 channel speaker settings by creating the virtual surround back speaker through the “VIRTUAL MATRIX 6.1” playback function (page 31).

(For STR-DB870) You can reproduce the 6.1 channel surround sound by creating the virtual surround back speaker through the “VIRTUAL MATRIX 6.1” playback function (page 31).

•CINEMA STUDIO EX A reproduces the sound characteristics of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s classic editing studio.

•CINEMA STUDIO EX B reproduces the sound characteristics of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s mixing studio which is one of the most up-to- date facilities in Hollywood.

•CINEMA STUDIO EX C reproduces the sound characteristics of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s BGM recording studio.

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