Preparations for Use: Basic Information

Stereo Playback:

Stereo playback means sound is played back through independent channels from right and left speakers. The soundtracks for DVD video stereo and ordinary music CDs (recorded with 2ch stereo) are played back only from the front speakers, even when 5 surround speakers or sub-woofers are connected.

Front right speaker

Front left speaker

Dolby Surround Playback:

When Dolby Surround is noted on a commercially purchased DVD video, it means that sound can be played back from five surround speakers.

Center speaker

Front right

 

 

speaker

Right surround speaker

Front left speaker

Left Surround speaker

Dolby Digital 5.1 ch or DTS Surround Playback:

Programs recorded in Dolby Digital (5.1 ch surround) or DTS surround mode are played back through 5 surround speakers plus sub-woofer, each with its own independent channel. Since each channel is recorded independently, the reproduced sound has high presence and three-dimensionality.

 

 

Sounds of planes flying

 

 

overhead and other moving

 

Sounds of explosions, footsteps of

sounds are reproduced with

 

dinosaurs and other low-frequency

three-dimensional realism.

 

sounds are reproduced with bone-

 

 

 

shaking realism.

 

 

“0.1” refers to the

Center

 

 

specialized low-frequency

speaker

 

 

sound of this channel. As a

 

 

 

 

 

result, no sound is produced

 

Front right speaker

here in scenes that don’t

 

require super low sound.

Sub-woofer

Right surround

 

 

 

Front left

speaker

 

speaker

 

Dialogue is heard primarily from the center speaker.

Left Surround speaker

Since front-back speakers can be controlled independently, sounds can be heard travelling from front to back, left to right, and vice-versa.

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