Listening To Your System; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-917V-S/-K Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system

Chapter 5:
Listening to your system
Important
• Certain features explained in this section
will not be possible depending on the
source (for example, PCM 88.2 kHz / 96 kHz,
DTS 96 kHz (24 bit) or WMA9 Pro sources).

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.
STEREO/
AUTO SURR
F.S.SURR
• While listening to a source, press AUTO
SURR for auto playback of a source.
Press repeatedly until AUTOSURR. 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.

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.
If you connected surround back speakers, see
also Using surround back channel processing
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on page 32.
Note
1 • Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using Neo:6 CINEMA or 2 Pro Logic IIx MOVIE (see Listening
in surround sound below for more on these decoding formats).
• The Auto Surround feature is canceled if you connect headphones or select the multichannel analog inputs.
2 If surround back processing (page 32) is switched to OFF, or the surround back speakers are set to NO (this happens auto-
matically if the Surround back speaker setting on page 38 is set to anything but Normal (SB)), 2 Pro Logic IIx becomes 2 Pro
Logic II (5.1 channel sound).
3 If surround back processing (page 32) is switched to OFF, or the surround back speakers are set to NO (page 44), 2 Pro Logic
IIx becomes 2 Pro Logic II (5.1 channel sound).
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STANDARD ADV.SURR
The following modes provide basic surround
sound for stereo and multichannel sources.
STEREO/
AUTO SURR
F.S.SURR
• While listening to a source, press
STANDARD.
If necessary, press repeatedly to select a
listening mode.
• If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or
Dolby Surround encoded, the proper
decoding format will automatically be
selected and shows in the display.
With two channel sources, you can select from:
• 2 Pro Logic IIx MOVIE – Up to 7.1
channel sound, especially suited to movie
sources
• 2 Pro Logic IIx MUSIC – Up to 7.1
channel sound, especially suited to music
sources
• 2 Pro Logic IIx GAME – Up to 7.1
channel sound, especially suited for video
games
• 2 PRO LOGIC – 4.1 channel surround
sound (sound from the surround speakers
is mono)
• Neo:6 CINEMA – 6.1 channel sound,
especially suited to movie sources
• Neo:6 MUSIC – 6.1 channel sound,
especially suited to music sources
With multichannel sources, if you have
connected surround back speaker(s) and have
selected SB ON, you can select (according to
format):
STANDARD ADV.SURR
SOUND
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