Listening With Acoustic Calibration Eq; Using Virtual Surround Back (Vsb) - Pioneer VSX-818V-K Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
Listening with Acoustic
Calibration EQ
• 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 8 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 40.
Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic
Calibration Equalization.
STEREO/
AUTO/DIRECT
A.L.C.
ACOUSTIC
PHASE
EQ
• While listening to a source, press
ACOUSTIC EQ .
Press repeatedly to select between:
• ALL CH – No special weighting is given to
any one channel.
• F. ALIGN – All speakers are heard in
accordance with the front speaker settings.
• CUSTOM 1/2 – Custom settings
• EQ OFF – Switches Acoustic Calibration
EQ off.
The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights
when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.
Note
1 You can't use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, Stream Direct mode or WMA9 Pro, and it has no effect with
headphones.
2 The Virtual Surround Back mode is not effective when using headphones, Stream Direct, Stereo, Auto level control stereo
mode, Front Stage Surround Advance mode. It is also unavailable if the surround speaker is set to NO in Speaker Setting on
page 42.
STANDARD ADV SURR
SOUND
DIALOG RETRIEVER
1
Using Virtual Surround Back
(VSB)
Selecting this mode allows you to hear a
virtual surround back channel through your
surround speakers. For example, you can
choose to listen to sources with no surround
back channel information (for example, 5.1
encoded material) with emulated 6.1
encoding (VSB ON). Sometimes the material
may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it
was originally encoded. In this case you can
simply switch it off (VSB OFF).
Depending on the input signal and the
Listening Mode, the Virtual Surround Back
mode may not be effective.
STANDBY / ON
INPUT
SELECTOR
Press VSB MODE (front panel) to select
•
a virtual surround back channel option.
Each press cycles through the options as
follows:
• VSB ON – Virtual Surround Back is always
used (for example, on 5.1 encoded
material)
• VSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is
switched off
2
PHASE
CONTROL
DVD TV DVR VIDEO/PORTABLE
PHONES
SOUND SIGNAL
RETRIEVER VSB MODE SPEAKERS SELECT
05
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