Using The Listening Modes - Onkyo TX-NR1000 Instruction Manual

Using the Listening Modes

Types of Listening Modes
Listening modes on the TX-NR1000/TX-NR5000E
enable you to enjoy movie theater or concert hall qual-
ity sounds in your room. The TX-NR1000/
TX-NR5000E provides the following listening modes.
Before playing a source in optimal sound, be sure to
complete the Speaker/Output Setup (See pages 88 - 91).
Direct
This mode allows you to enjoy pure sounds straight from
an original source. Every channel of the audio input
source will be output "as is" to respective channels.
Pure Audio
In addition to the Direct mode, playback of music more
faithful to the original sounds is enabled because the
display window is turned off to minimize noise sources
(the power supply to the video circuitry is also turned
off, so nothing is displayed on the screen).
Stereo
Sounds are output from the right and left front speakers,
and the subwoofer.
Mono
This mode is suitable for playing old movies recorded
in monaural sound, or for playing the right and left
channels separately on bilingual sources. This mode
also allows you to listen to multiplexed soundtracks on
DVDs and other sources.
Dolby Pro Logic II
This mode enables 5.1-channel playback of music and
movies recorded in 2 channels. You can select the Movie
mode, best designed for playing movies, the Music
mode, best designed for listening to music, and the
Game mode, best suited for enjoying games.
• PLII Movie
This mode can be used with VHS and DVD videos
with the mark, and certain television
programs.
• PLII Music
This mode can be used with stereo music CDs and
DVD recordings of live concerts.
• PLII Game
This mode can be used with game discs.
Dolby Pro Logic IIx
This mode reproduces in 5.1-7.1 channels music CDs
and movies recorded in 2 channels. Together with
clearer sounds, you will hear more natural and smoother
surround effects than ever before. In addition to CDs
and movies, game sources are played with a dramatic
spatial presentation and with sound localization.
And this mode enables 7.1 channel playback of music
and movies recorded in 5.1 channels. You can select the
PLIIx Movie and PLIIx Music mode.
• PLIIx Movie
This is the best mode for viewing movies.
• PLIIx Music
This is the best mode for playing music.
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• PLIIx Game
This is the best mode for enjoying games, providing
the best sense of signal movement.
Dolby Digital
This is a surround mode that will make you feel as if
you are sitting in a seat inside a theater or concert hall.
This mode can be used with DVDs and LDs with the
mark.
Dolby VS (Dolby Virtual Speaker)
The dynamic surround sound effects specific to 5.1
channel speakers are reproduced through 2 speakers.
When combined with "Dolby Pro Logic II"/"DTS
NEO:6," this mode provides 5.1 channel surround
music recorded in 2 channels on CD or MP3 through
only 2 speakers. This mode can also be applied to a sys-
tem equipped with more than 2 speakers.
If you are able to use only 2 speakers in a separate room
(Zone 2 or Zone 3) or main room B, this mode will let
you experience truly powerful sounds of a movie, CD or
game through the virtual surround effects. When you
use this mode with three or more speakers, the speakers
used for output will depend on the input source and
decoding mode.
Dolby Digital EX/Dolby EX
This mode enables 6.1 channel playback of music or
movies recorded in 5.1 channels. Adding a surround
channel to the backside of 5.1 channel speakers to make
them 6.1 channel speakers will enhance space expres-
sions that should give you a real feel of moving sounds
such as 360-degree rotation or overhead flying. Since
sounds on the surround back channel are divided into
the surround left and right channels, this mode also
enables conventional 5.1 channel playback. When play-
ing DVDs and LDs recorded in 5.1 channels with the
mark, Dolby Digital EX mode turns on, and when
playing other sources, Dolby EX turns on.
DTS
Sound data that would be of tremendous size if com-
pletely divided into 5.1 channels are compressed into
digital data with a status as close as possible to the orig-
inal sounds. Playing in this mode requires a DVD player
able to output DTS. This mode can be used with CDs,
DVDs and LDs with the mark.
DTS 96/24
This is a listening mode available with DTS 96/24. This
mode allows you to enjoy delicate sounds.
DTS-ES Discrete
This is a 6.1 channel surround system based on DTS
with a surround back channel added. Since all 6.1 chan-
nels including the added surround back channel are
recorded as completely independent digital data, a 3-D
feeling and a sense of moving sounds are reproduced
more clearly. This mode can be used with CDs, DVDs,
and LDs with the mark.