Special Features - Kenwood VR-6070 Instruction Manual

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True home theater sound
Thus recerver rncorporates a wade varrety of su&found modes to brrng you
maximum erjfoyment fro"? yourvrdeo software Select a surround (mode
accordrng to your equrprnent or the software you are gorng to play and
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THX Surround EX
THX Surround EX IS all exterlsron of THX which was forntly developed
by LucasfIlm THX and Dolby LaboratorIes It allows you to experience
a new drmet?sron of depth spacious ambience and sound localrzat!on
to home theater audro
Thus systetn feattIres Re-eq~~alrzat!on fRe-EQI, Timbre Matching, Adap-
tlve Decorrelatron, Bass Peak Level Manager and Loudspeaker Posrtron
Trme Synchronrzatrorl, whcl~ reproduces srmrlar crnematrc effects rn
the home envrrorTrvernt
Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital EX
The DOLBY DIGITAL mode lets York enjoy full drgrtal sLrrround from
software processed rn the Dolby Digital format Dolby DIgItal provrdes
up to 5 1 channels of rnclependent drgrtal audro for better sound qualrty
and more powerfu presence than conventronal Dolby Surround
As for Dolby Digital EX, rt creates srx full-bandwIdth output channels
from the 5 I channel so~rrces This IS done using a matrrx decoder that
derives three surround channels from the two rn the orrgrnal recording
For best results, Dolby DIgItal EX should be used wrth movie sound
tracks recorded with Dolby DIgital Surround EX
Dolby PRD LDGICD
DOLBY PRO LOGIC Ii, whilst totally compatrble wrth its predecessor
PRO LOGIC, provrdes greater advantages rn surround sound It allows
the user to enjoy the conventronal stereo or Dolby Surround with a
convrnc!ng "5 1 IIke" presentatvx PRO LOGIC II offers specral fea-
turesforcontrollrr?g the overall spatial, drmensronalrtyand frontal sound
field rmagrng PRO LOGIC II produces an rmpress!ve surround sound
from vrdeo software tmarked ~~~~o~~vsu~~ou~o~ and three-drmenslonal
space from musrc CD WITen lrstenlng to musrc, you will be able to entoy
the experrerrce of sheer STEREO surrotrnd sound
DTS-ES
The DTS-ES (Dbgrtal Theater System-Extended Surround) IS a 6 l-channel
Discrete Surround for tmat wlxch rs exter7ded to DTS-ES Discrete 6 1,
DTS-Matrrx 6 1 and DTS NE0 6 It rs a 6 1 channel expanded from 5 1
surroundwh~ch~ncludesa~add~t~onalsurro~~nd-centerchanneldeveloped
within surround-left and surround-rrght DTS-ES wrll be able to produce
tile orrgrnal sound recorded srmilar to the theatrical effects
In the DTS-ES mode, tile 5 1 or 6 1 channel digital input front a DTS CD,
LD or DVD drsc (cartyIng the "DTS" or "DTS-ES" markrng) can be
played I" DIgItal SLlrround
Important
When a DTS drsc rs played or? a CD, LD or DVD player, norse rmay be
output from the analog output It IS recommended that you connect the
drgrtal output of the player to the drgrtal Input of this Lrnrt
Multi
channel surround sound
(SRS Circle SurroundIt
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SRS Circle Surround llTM rmproves on rts predecessor CS-5 lTM result-
rng !n the CS-6 lTM system, enablrng you to lrsten to realjsttc, multi-
channel, SUI round sound playback from a stereo source or conventronal
surround-encoded vrdeo source You already enjoy lrstenrng to Dolby
drgrtal sound/DTS multi-channel sound with your multi-speakers Now
you can lIsten to audjo CDs, MDs, Broadcast and Home Theater usrng
your mult-speakers You wrll drscover a new type of sound through
SRS Circle Surround If
DSP surround modes
The DSP (Drgrtal Signal Processor) used for thus recerver incorporates
a varrety of hrgh quality adjustable sound ftelds, lrke "ARENA", "JAZZ
CLUB", "THEATER", "STADIUM" and "DISCO" It rscompatrble with
almost any kind of program source
DVD &channel input
If you own a DVD player equipped with 6.channel output, thus receiver
allows you to obtain the full surround sound Impact of DVD source
material featurrng multi-channel encoding. Since the source signals are
drgrtal and each channel IS input Independently, the resuftrng ambrence
IS far superror to what can be achieved with conventronal surround
sound systems
ACTIVE Et2
ACTIVE EQ mode will produce a more dynamrc sound quality rn any
condrtron You can enjoy a more rmpressrve sound effect when ACTIVE
EQ IS turned on durrng Dolby Drgrtal and DTS playback
SPEAKER EQ
TheSPEAKER EQfunct~onw~llautomat~callydetectthe"ar~ousfeatures
of each speaker and effectrvely creates a stereoscoprc sound effect.
Remote control
Some of the remote controls have two krnds of srgnal
Universal IR (InfraRed) remote control
In addrtton to the basic receiver, the remote control supplred with this
receiver can also operate almost all of your remote controllable audio
and video components Just follow the simple setup procedure to
register the components you have connected
RF remote signal (For VR-6070 only)
YOLI can operate the recetver by sending RF remote srgnal from the
remote control The controllable range of the remote control rs not
rr?ftuenced by surroundrngs sucl~ as drstance or an obstruction.
RDS (Radio Data System) tuner (For the LLK. only)
The receiver IS equipped with an RDS tuner that provides several
convenrent tunrng functrons RDS Auto Memory, to automatrcally
preset up to 40 RDS statrons broadcastrng different programs; statron
name drsplay, to show you the name of the current broadcast station,
and PTY search to let you tune statrons by program type
PTY (Program Type) search (For the U.K. only)
Tune the stations by specrfyrng the type of program you want to hear.
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