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 surround parameter. To fully enjoy surround sound, you must register the number and location of you speakers. See “Multi channel surround setup” starting from page 12 to set the speaker parameters before enjoying surround sound.
Decoding the input audio signal automatically (Auto Format Direct)
Press A.F.D.
“A.F.D. AUTO” appears in the display.
This mode automatically detects the type of audio signal being input (Dolby Digital, DTS, or standard 2 channel stereo) and performs the proper decoding if necessary. This mode presents the sound as it was recorded/encoded, without adding any effects (e.g. reverberation).
However, if there are no low frequency signals (Dolby Digital LFE, etc.) it will generate a low frequency signal for output to the sub woofer.
Enjoying stereo sound in multi channel (Dolby Pro Logic )
This function lets you specify the type of decoding for 2 channel audio sources.
This receiver can reproduce 2 channel sound in 5 channels through Dolby Pro Logic II; or 4 channels through Dolby Pro Logic.
Press ;PL/PL repeatedly to select “DOLBY PL”, “PL MOV” or “PL MUS”.
The selected mode appears in the display.
xDOLBY PL (Dolby Pro Logic)
Performs the Pro Logic decoding. 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 (4 channels).
x PL MOV (Pro Logic Movie)
Performs the Pro Logic II movie mode decoding. This setting is ideal for the movies encoded in Dolby Surround. Besides, this mode can reproduce the sound in 5.1 channel when watching the videos of old movies or in the dubbed language.
x PL MUS (Pro Logic Music)
Performs the Pro Logic II music mode decoding. This setting is ideal for normal stereo sources such as CDs.
Tip
You can also use ;PLII on the receiver to select “DOLBY PL”, “PLII MOV” or “PLII MUS”.
Note
Dolby Pro Logic and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding does not function for DTS format signals.