Listening To Your System; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-819H-S Operating Instructions Manual

05

Listening to your system

Chapter 5:
Listening to your system
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

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/ AUTO/
DIRECT DIRECT
AUDIO
• While listening to a source, press
2
AUTO/DIRECT
source.
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
1 Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE (see Listening in
surround sound above for more on these decoding formats).
2 For more options using this button, see Using Stream Direct on page 37.
3 When listening to 2-channel sources in DOLBY PLII MUSIC mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust:
C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM.. See Setting the Audio options on page 39 to adjust them.
4 When listening to 2-channel sources in NEO:6 CINEMA or NEO:6 MUSIC mode, you can also adjust the C.IMG effect
(see Setting the Audio options on page 39).
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STEREO/
A.L.C. STANDARD ADV SURR
TUNER EDIT MASTER
for auto playback of a

Listening in surround sound

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.
The following modes provide basic surround
sound for stereo and multichannel sources.
AUTO/ STEREO/
DIRECT A.L.C.
AUDIO
• While listening to a source, press
STANDARD.
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 the surround back speaker is not
connected
With two channel sources, you can select from:
• DOLBY PLII MOVIE – Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited to movie sources
• DOLBY PLII MUSIC
sound, especially suited to music sources
• DOLBY PLII GAME – Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited for video games
• NEO:6 CINEMA – Up to 5.1 channel sound,
especially suited to movie sources
• NEO:6 MUSIC – Up to 5.1 channel sound,
especially suited to music sources
• DOLBY PRO LOGIC – 4.1 channel
surround sound
STANDARD STANDARD ADV SURR
TUNER EDIT MASTER
3
– Up to 5.1 channel
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