Adjusting The Advanced Effect Level; Listening In Stereo; Listening With Headphones - Pioneer VSX-AX5Ai-G Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
Neo:6 Music settings
• Default setting: 2
When listening to 2-channel sources in Neo:6 Music
mode, you can adjust the center image to create a wider
stereo effect with vocals. Note that this is only available
when using a center speaker.
1 Press RECEIVER.
2 With NEO:6 MUSIC mode active, press EFFECT/CH
SEL repeatedly to select CENTER IMAGE.
3 Use the +/– buttons to adjust the setting.
Adjust the effect from 0 (no effect) to 5 (most prominence
given to the center channel).

Adjusting the advanced effect level

• Default setting: 50 (except 5/7CH STEREO: 90)
You can emphasize or reduce the level of the advanced
effects as you like. You can set the effect level
independently for each mode.
1 Press RECEIVER.
2 With one of the advanced effect modes active,
press EFFECT/CH SEL repeatedly until EFFECT shows
in the front panel display.
3 Use the +/– buttons to adjust the effect level.
The effect level can be adjusted from 10 (min) to 90
(max).
RECEIVER
EFFECT/CH SEL
+
RECEIVER
EFFECT/CH SEL
+

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.
STEREO/
DIRECT
• While listening to a source, press STEREO/DIRECT
for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your surround
settings (such as channel level) and you can still use
digital processing (such as the Midnight, Loudness,
and Tone control functions).
• DIRECT – Bypass all effects and surround settings so
that the audio remains as close to the source audio
signal as possible.
Note
• If you switch on any signal processing features (for
example, digital noise reduction or the tone controls)
when DIRECT is selected, the receiver automatically
switches to STEREO.

Listening with headphones

When headphones are connected, all multichannel
sources, as well as all of the MOVIE and MUSIC modes
with be downmixed to 2 channels. Two channel sources
will be heard in stereo.
• Connect a pair of headphones to the PHONES
jack on the front panel.
All sources will be heard in stereo (downmixed). When
you disconnect them it reverts to the previous mode.
Note
• Many receiver features (such as matrix decoding) are
not accessible when the headphones are connected.
• When headphones are connected, no sound is heard
from the speakers. However, sound will still be output
from the preouts.
• You can only hear the front left and right channels
when MULTI CH IN is switched on.
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