Digital Home Theater Technology

Presence (Front Line) Sound Field

Conventional

Quad-Field CINEMA DSP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.1-Channel Systems

 

Dialogue

Effect

Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surround Left

Surround Right

Sound Field

Sound Field

 

Surround Back

 

Sound Field

and even allows the lip-sync parameters to be adjusted using the Audio Delay mode.

CINEMA DSP Programs and THX Programs

One of the main advantages of CINEMA DSP is the large choice of sound field programs available. The basic program for movies is Enhanced, which greatly improves the sound of the surround fields. The "largest" of these sound fields is Spectacle, which recreates the open feeling of large-scale, epic motion pictures. The Sci-Fi, Adventure and General programs provide the optimum sound fields for those movie genres. There are also THX programs*.

*THX Ultra2/Select are the surround programs for home use, based on the THX Theater processing developed for movie theater surround sound.

New Night Listening Enhancer

During low-volume listening, such as late at night, dynamic range suffers and you may miss some sounds. The Night Listening Enhancer offers two

modes, Cinema and Music, with three-level selectability, which will ensure that you don’t miss movie dialogue or quiet passages, or lose overall surround spaciousness. It works for all surround programs, including Dolby Pro Logic IIx.

Night Listening Enhancer

Cinema Mode

Equalizes center channel frequency response for clear dialogue.

Decode

 

Center

 

Dialogue

 

DSP

Output

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compressor

 

Filter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music Mode

Uses loudness filter for clear musical sound.

Decode

 

Front

 

Loudness

 

DSP

 

 

Channel

 

 

Output

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filter

 

 

 

 

Compressor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy Surround Sound through Headphones SILENT CINEMA makes it possible to hear large- scale surround sound through ordinary headphones! This is a variation of CINEMA DSP technology that Yamaha developed to let you listen in private to

movies and other multi-channel sources for hours without listening fatigue.

Surround Sound from Only Two Speakers

With just two left and right speakers, the Virtual CINEMA DSP mode will create two additional “virtual” rear speakers, giving you the sense of being in a full-scale surround sound field. So even in rooms with no space for rear speakers, you can enjoy the exciting effects of Dolby Digital and DTS movie sound formats.

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