Listening To Your System; Choosing The Listening Mode; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-531 Operating Instructions Manual

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Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode

This receiver offers a variety of listening modes to
accommodate playback of various audio formats. Choose
one according to your speaker environment or the source.
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While listening to a source, press the listening mode
button repeatedly to select a listening mode you want.
BASS BASS
PHASE PHASE S.RETRIEVER S.RETRIEVER
AUX AUX
AV AV
ADJUST ADJUST MUTE MUTE VOLUME VOLUME
• The listening mode is shown on the display on the front
panel.
Important
• The listening modes and many features described in this
section may not be available depending on the current
source, settings and status of the receiver.

Auto playback

AUTO SURROUND/
AUTO/
STREAM DIRECT
DIRECT
The simplest, most direct listening option is the AUTO
SURROUND feature. With this, the receiver automatically
detects what kind of source you're playing and selects
multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.
AUTO/DIRECT
• Press repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND
shows briefly in the display (it will then show the decoding or
playback format). Check the digital format indicators in the
display to see how the source is being processed.
Note
• Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly
using NEO:6 CINEMA (see

Listening in surround sound

below for more on these decoding formats).
• When listening to the BT AUDIO input, the Sound
Retriever AIR feature is selected automatically.
Sound Retriever AIR:
Suitable for listening to the sound from a BLUETOOTH
wireless technology device.
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Listening in surround sound
ALC/
STANDARD
Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in surround
sound. However, the options available will depend on your
speaker setup and the type of source you're listening to.
• If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround
encoded, the proper decoding format will automatically be
selected and shows in the display.
When you select STEREO ALC (Auto Level Control stereo mode),
this unit equalizes playback sound levels if each sound level varies
with the music source recorded in a portable audio player.
When you select STEREO, you will hear the source through just the
front left and right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer
depending on your speaker settings). Dolby Digital and DTS
multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.
The following modes provide basic surround sound for stereo
and multichannel sources.
Type of surround modes Suitable sources
Two channel sources
STEREO ALC See above.
DOLBY PLII MOVIE Movie
Music
a
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
DOLBY PLII GAME Video games
Movie
b
NEO:6 CINEMA
b Music
NEO:6 MUSIC
DOLBY PRO LOGIC Old movies
c See above.
STEREO
2
ALC/
STANDARD SURR
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