Welcome to the exciting world of digital home entertainment.

The TSS-1 is a compact, but complete and advanced home theater sound system that takes you to the exciting world of digital surround sound entertainment. Though some of the advanced features of this system may not be familiar to you, they are easy to use. Incorporated state-of-art technology such as Dolby Digital and DTS can bring the same audio experience to your home as they have brought to feature films in quality theaters around the world. Take some time now to read more about these features and enjoy the new experiences this system brings to your home theater.

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■Dolby Surround

Dolby Surround uses four discrete channels and five speakers to reproduce realistic and dynamic sound effects: two main channels (left and right), a center channel for dialog, and a rear channel for special sound effects. The rear channel reproduces sound within a narrow frequency range.

Most video tapes and laser discs include Dolby Surround encoding, as do many TV and cable broadcasts. The Dolby Pro Logic decoder built into this unit employs a digital signal processing system that stabilizes each channel for even more accurate sound positioning than is available with standard analog processors.

■Dolby Digital *

Dolby Digital is a digital surround sound system that provides completely independent multi-channel audio to you. Dolby Digital provides five full-range channels in what is sometimes referred to as a “3/2” configuration: three front channels (left, center and right), and two surround channels. A sixth bass-only effect channel is also provided for output of LFE (low frequency effect), or low bass effects that are independent of other channels. (This is called the “LFE channel”.) This channel is counted as 0.1, thus giving rise to the term 5.1 channels in total.

The wide dynamic range of sound reproduced by the five full-range channels and precise sound orientation by digital sound processing provides listeners with excitement and realism that have never been experienced before.

■DTS (Digital Theater System) DigitalSurround **

DTS was developed to replace the analog soundtracks of movies with six discrete channels of digital soundtracks, and it is now installed in many theaters around the world. The DTS digital playback system changed the way we experienced movies in theaters with six discrete channels of superb digital audio.

DTS technology, through intense research and development has made it possible to deliver similar encode/decode discrete technology to home audio surround-sound entertainment.

DTS Digital Surround is an encode/decode system which delivers six channels of master-quality, 20-bit audio; technically, it is 5.1 channels, which means 5 full-range (left, center, right and two surround) channels, plus a subwoofer (LFE) channel (as “0.1”). It is compatible with the 5.1 speaker configurations that are currently available for home theater systems.

Notes

cWhen playing an ordinary CD on this system following playback of a CD or an LD encoded with DTS, some operations, such as resetting input modes, may be required.

cEven if connected to this system with a digital connection, some CD, LD, and DVD players may make this system fail to decode DTS or produce noise. This is because certain digital output data processing by such a player results in DTS- encoded data errors that cause playback failure although the same data processing may cause only a slight change in volume or in frequency response in normal digital sound.

cWhen an error occurs in the player’s digital output data during playback of an LD or CD encoded with DTS, playback may be disrupted. If this occurs, stop playback and repower the player.

cWhen digital sound signals from the computer are played, errors in WAVE signals, etc. may occur resulting in noise or a playback failure.

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Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby”, “Pro Logic” and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential Unpublished Works. q1992–1997 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Manufactured under license from Digital Theater Systems, Inc. US Pat. No. 5,451,942 and other worldwide patents issued and pending. “DTS”, “DTS Digital Surround”, are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Copyright 1996 Digital Theater Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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