Listening In Stereo; Choosing The Input Signal; Using Surround Back Channel Processing - Pioneer VSX-516 Operating Instructions Manual

05 Listening to your system
Setting What it does
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 IIx Mu-
sic mode (also available with 2 Pro Logic II 5.1sound).
b Only available with 2ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.

Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO or DIRECT, 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.
STANDARD ADV.SURR
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• While listening to a source, press STEREO
for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your
surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.
• 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 22 for more on this.
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.
2 • This receiver can only playback Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other
digital signal formats, set to ANALOG.
• You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make
the proper digital connections (page 9) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.
• Some DVD players don't output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.
3 You can't use the surround back channel with headphones, the STEREO / DIRECT mode, or if the surround back speaker is
set to NO in Speaker setting on page 28. Also, the Surround back speaker setting on page 27 must be set to SB NORM. to hear
the surround back channel.
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Options
CD CD-R FM AM
MIDNIGHT/
STEREO LOUDNESS
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Choosing the input signal

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• Default setting: AUTO
You need to hook up a component to both
analog and digital inputs on the rear of the
receiver to select between input signals.
• Press SIGNAL SELECT (front panel) to
select the input signal corresponding to the
source component.
Each press cycles through the following:
• AUTO – This automatically switches to
DIGITAL if a digital source is detected,
otherwise it remains on ANALOG.
• ANALOG – Selects the analog inputs.
• DIGITAL – Selects the digital input.
When set to DIGITAL or AUTO, 2 DIGITAL
lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and
DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.
U sing surround back channel
processing
• Default setting: SB ON
You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1
decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you
can choose to always use 6.1 decoding (for
example, with 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1
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encoded sources, a surround back channel
will be generated, but the material may sound
better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi-
nally encoded (in which case, you can simply
switch surround back processing off).
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