Listening In Stereo; Listening With Acoustic Calibration Eq - Pioneer VSX-516-S/-K Operating Instructions Manual

06 Listening to your system
3 Press EFFECT/CH SEL again to adjust
other settings .
Setting What it does
Center Spreads the center channel
a
between the front right and
Width
left speakers, making it
(Applicable
sound wider (higher settings)
only when
using a cen- or narrower (lower settings).
ter speaker)
a
Adjusts the surround sound
Dimension
balance from front to back,
making the sound more
distant (minus settings), or
more forward (positive
settings).
a Extends the front stereo
Panorama
image to include surround
speakers for a 'wraparound'
effect.
Center Adjusts the center image to
b
create a wider stereo effect
Image
with vocals. Adjust the effect
(Applicable
from 0 (all center channel
only when
sent to front right and left
using a cen-
speakers) to 10 (center
ter speaker)
channel sent to the center
speaker only).
Effect Sets the effect level for the
currently selected Advanced
Surround mode (each mode
can be set separately).
a Only available with 2ch sources in Dolby Pro Logic II(x) Mu-
sic mode.
b Only available with 2ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.
Note
1 If you switch on Midnight listening, Loudness, Dialog Enhancement, the Sound Retriever or the Tone controls when DIRECT
is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO.
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En

Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO or DIRECT, you will
Options
hear the source through just the front left and
0 to 7 right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer
Default: 3
depending on your speaker settings).
Dolby Digital, DTS and WMA9 Pro multi-
channel sources are downmixed to stereo.
CD-R
CD
–3 to +3
STANDARD ADV.SURR
Default: 0
TOP MENU
Above: VSX-416 (left) and VSX-516 (right)
• While listening to a source, press STEREO
for stereo playback.
OFF
Press repeatedly to switch between:
ON
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your
surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.
0 to 10
Default: 3
• DIRECT – Bypass all effects and surround
settings so that the audio remains as close
to the source audio signal as possible.
• AUTO SURR. – See Auto playback on
page 28 for more on this.
10 to 90
Listening with Acoustic
Default:
7-STEREO
Calibration EQ
–
90 / Oth-
–
70
ers
VSX-516 model only
• Default setting: OFF / ALL CH (after the
Auto MCACC Setup or EQ Auto Setting)
You can listen to sources using the Acoustic
Calibration Equalization set in Automatically
setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on
page 9 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 36.
Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic
Calibration Equalization.
CD-R/TAPE
FM AM
CD FM
MIDNIGHT/
LOUDNESS
STEREO
ADV.SURR
STANDARD
EFFECT
MENU
/CH SEL LEVEL
EFFECT
SLEEP
/CH SEL LEVEL
ACOUSTIC
S.RETRIEVER DIALOG E EQ DIMMER
MUTE
MASTER
AM RECEIVER
MIDNIGHT/
STEREO
LOUDNESS
SLEEP
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