Listening In Stereo; Using Front Stage Surround Advance; Using Stream Direct - Pioneer VSX-917V Operating Instructions Manual

05 Listening to your system
Setting What it does
Center Adjusts the center image to
b
create a wider stereo effect with
Image
vocals. Adjust the effect from 0
(Applicable
(all center channel sent to front
only when
right and left speakers) to 10
using a cen-
ter speaker) (center channel sent to the
center speaker only).
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 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.
AUTO SURR
• While listening to a source, press
STEREO/F.S.SURR 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.
• F.S.S.FOCUS – See Using Front Stage
Surround Advance below for more on this.
• F.S.S. WIDE – See Using Front Stage
Surround Advance below for more on this.
Note
1 When using F.S.S. WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if Auto MCACC Setup is performed. For more on this, refer to
Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 8.
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En
Options
0 to 10
Default: 3
10 to 90
STEREO/
STANDARD ADV.SURR
F.S.SURR
Using Front Stage Surround
Advance
The Front Stage Surround Advance function
allows you to create natural surround sound
effects using just the front speakers and the
subwoofer.
STEREO/
AUTO SURR
F.S.SURR
• While listening to a source, press STEREO/
F.S.SURR to select Front Stage Surround
Advance modes.
• STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for
more on this
• F.S.S.FOCUS – Use to provide a rich
surround sound effect directed to the
center of where the front left and right
speakers sound projection area converges.
• F.S.S. WIDE – Use to provide a surround
sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS
1
mode.
FOCUS position (Recommend)
Front left Front right
speaker speaker

Using Stream Direct

Use the Stream Direct modes when you want
to hear the truest possible reproduction of a
source. All unnecessary signal processing is
bypassed.
STEREO/
AUTO SURR
F.S.SURR
STANDARD ADV.SURR
WIDE position
Front left Front right
speaker speaker
STANDARD ADV.SURR