PLAYBACK

■Listening at night

This mode reproduces dialog clearly while reducing the volume of loud sound effects for easier listening at low volumes or at night.

Press NIGHT on the remote control.

The NIGHT indicator in the front panel

NIGHT

display lights up.

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Press NIGHT again to cancel. The NIGHT indicator goes off.

y

•You can use the night listening mode with any sound field program except Direct Stereo (even though the NIGHT indicator lights up during Direct Stereo mode).

•Night listening mode may vary in effectiveness depending on the input source and surround sound settings you use.

■Virtual CINEMA DSP

Virtual CINEMA DSP allows you to enjoy the CINEMA DSP programs without surround speakers. It creates virtual speakers to reproduce the natural sound field.

If you do not connect surround speakers, Virtual CINEMA DSP activates automatically whenever you select a CINEMA DSP sound field program.

Note

When headphones are connected, Virtual CINEMA DSP will not activate, even when Surround is set to “None” (see page 68).

■Listening to unprocessed sound

Press STRAIGHT/EFFECT to select STRAIGHT.

2-channel stereo sources are output from the front left and right speakers only. Multi-channel sources are decoded straight into the appropriate channels without any additional effect processing.

STRAIGHT

STRAIGHT

or

EFFECT

EFFECT

 

Front panel

Remote control

Press STRAIGHT/EFFECT again so that “STRAIGHT” disappears from the display when you want to turn the sound effect back on.

y

You can also perform this operation using the GUI remote control (see page 29).

■Downmixing to 2 channels

You can enjoy 2-channel stereo playback even from multi- channel sources.

Press DSP PROGRAM, then rotate MULTI JOG (or set 10KEY/AMP to AMP then press STEREO repeatedly on the remote control) to select “STEREO 2ch Stereo”.

MULTI JOG

DSP

10KEY

AMP

STEREO

HALL#1

HALL#2

CHURCH

 

 

1

2

3

4

PROGRAM

 

 

or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

6

7

8

 

 

 

JAZZ

ROCK

MUSIC

ENTERTAIN

 

6.1/5.1

MOVIE

THX

/DTS

NIGHT

 

 

 

9

0

+10

+100

 

CHP/INDEX

 

 

 

 

 

Front panel

Remote control

STEREO

2ch Stereo

y

•You can also perform this operation using the GUI remote control (see page 29).

•You can use a subwoofer with this program when SWFR or Both is selected in Bass Out (see page 67).

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