Using The Advanced Surround; Using Stream Direct; Using The Sound Retriever; Listening With Acoustic Calibration Eq - Pioneer VSX-5231 Operating Instructions Manual

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Using the Advanced surround

ADV SURR
The Advanced surround feature creates a variety of surround
effects. Try different modes with various soundtracks to see
which you like.
Designed for action movies with dynamic
ACTION
soundtracks.
Designed for movies with lots of dialog.
DRAMA
ADVANCED GAME Suitable for video games.
Suitable for sports programs.
SPORTS
Gives a large concert hall-type sound.
CLASSICAL
Creates a live concert sound for rock and/or
ROCK/POP
pop music.
Gives multichannel sound to a stereo
EXT.STEREO
source, using all of your speakers.
Allows you to create natural surround
F.S.S.ADVANCE
(Front Stage sound effects using just the front speakers
Surround and the subwoofer.
ADVANCE)
Use to provide a rich surround sound effect
directed to the center of where the front left
and right speakers sound projection area
converges.
Front left
speaker
When listening through headphones, you
PHONES SURR
can still get the effect of overall surround.
Cut back on power consumption. Suitable
ECO MODE 1
for contents that are mainly high level
(mainly music).
Cut back on even more power consumption
ECO MODE 2
than ECO MODE 1. Suitable for contents
with wider dynamic range (mainly movies).
Note
ADVANCED
SURROUND
• During ECO mode, the brightness switches between 2
levels. If the dimmest level is selected, DIMMER will be
shown on the display. (Mode other than ECO: 4 levels, ECO
mode: 2 levels)
• ECO MODE will switch OFF automatically when switched
to other listening modes (Advanced surround mode and
Auto surround mode).

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.
AUTO SURROUND See
DIRECT
PURE DIRECT
Front right
speaker

Using the Sound Retriever

When audio data is removed during the compression
process, sound quality often suffers from an uneven sound
image. The Sound Retriever feature employs new DSP
technology that helps bring CD quality sound back to
compressed 2-channel audio by restoring sound pressure
and smoothing jagged artifacts left over after compression.
AUTO SURROUND/
AUTO/
STREAM DIRECT
DIRECT
Auto playback on page 26.
Sources are heard according to the settings
made in the Manual SP Setup (speaker
setting, channel level, speaker distance), as
well as with dual mono settings. You will
hear sources according to the number of
channels in the signal.
Phase Control, Acoustic Calibration EQ,
Sound Delay, Auto Delay, LFE Attenuate
and Center image functions are available.
Analog and PCM sources are heard without
any digital processing.
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Listening to your system

Press S.RETRIEVER to switch the S.RTV (Sound
Retriever) ON or OFF.
Note
• The Sound Retriever is only applicable to 2-channel
sources.

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ

You can listen to sources using the Acoustic Calibration
Equalization set in Automatically setting up for surround
sound (MCACC) on page 19. Refer to these pages for more on
Acoustic Calibration Equalization.

While listening to a source, press Acous.EQ
the EQ (Acoustic Calibration EQ) ON or OFF.
The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights when
Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.
• You can't use Acoustic Calibration EQ with Stream
Direct mode and it has no effect with headphones.

Better sound using Phase Control

This receiver's Phase Control feature uses phase correction
measures to make sure your sound source arrives at the
listening position in phase, preventing unwanted distortion
and/or coloring of the sound.
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