Sound field programs

LIVE/CLUB

Program

Descriptions

Cellar Club

This program simulates a live house with a low ceiling and homey atmosphere. A realistic, live sound

field features powerful sound as if the listener is in a row in front of a small stage.

 

 

 

The Roxy Theatre

This is the sound field of a rock music live house in Los Angeles, with approximately 460 seats. The

listener’s virtual seat is at the center left of the hall.

 

 

 

The Bottom Line

This is the sound field at stage front in The Bottom Line, that was a famous New York jazz club once. The

floor can seat 300 people to the left and right in a sound field offering real and vibrant sound.

 

 

 

For various sources

Notes

The available sound field parameters and the created sound fields differ depending on the input sources and the settings of this unit.

“DIALG.LIFT” is available only when “EXTRA SP ASSIGN” in “SPEAKER SET” is set to “PRESENCE” (see page 68).

ENTERTAINMENT

Program

Descriptions

 

 

This program allows the listeners to enjoy stereo sport broadcasts and studio variety programs with

Sportsenriched live feeling. In sports broadcasts, the voices of the commentator and sportscaster are positioned clearly at the center while the atmosphere of the stadium expands in an optimum space to offer the listeners with a feeling of presence in the stadium.

This sound field has been suitable for action games such as car racing and FPS games. It uses the

Action Game reflection data that limits the effects range per channel in order to offer a powerful playing environment with a being-there feeling by enhancing various effects tones while maintaining a clear sense of

directions.

This sound field has been suitable for role-playing and adventure games. It combines the sound field

Roleplaying Game effects for movies and the sound field designs for “Action Game” to represent the depth and 3D feeling of the field during play, while offering movie-like surround effects in the movie scenes in the game.

This sound field offers an image of a concert hall for live performance of pop, rock and jazz music. The

Music Video listener can indulge oneself in a hot live space thanks to the presence sound field that emphasizes the vividness of vocals and solo play and the beat of rhythm instruments, and to the surround sound field that reproduces the space of a big live hall.

For movie sources

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You can select the desired decoder used with following sound field program (except “Mono Movie”). See page 61 for details.

Notes

The available sound field parameters and the created sound fields differ depending on the input sources and the settings of this unit.

“DIALG.LIFT” is available only when “EXTRA SP ASSIGN” in “SPEAKER SET” is set to “PRESENCE” (see page 68).

MOVIE

Program

Descriptions

 

This program creates a sound field emphasizing the surrounding feeling without disturbing the original

Standard

acoustic positioning of multi-channel audio such as Dolby Digital and DTS. It has been designed with the

concept of “an ideal movie theater”, in which the audience is surrounded by beautiful reverberations from

 

 

the left, right and rear.

 

 

 

This program represents the spectacular feeling of large-scale movie productions.

Spectacle

It reproduces a broad theater sound field matching the cinemascope and wider-screen movies with an

 

excellent dynamic range from very small to extremely large sound.

 

 

 

This program clearly reproduces the finely elaborated sound design of the latest science fiction and

Sci-Fi

special effects-featuring movies.

You can enjoy a variety of cinematographically created virtual spaces reproduced with clear separation

 

 

between dialog, sound effects and background music.

 

 

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DSP-AX863SE specifications

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