Listening To Your System; Home Theater Sound Setup; Listening With Home Theater Sound - Pioneer XV-DVR9H Operating Instructions Manual

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Listening to your system

Chapter 4
Listening to your system

Home theater sound setup

Depending on the size and characteristics of your room,
you can choose to place your speakers in one of two ways
using this system:
• Standard surround 5-spot setup – This is a
standard multichannel surround sound speaker
setup for optimal 5.1 channel home theatre sound.
Use the standard Surround and Advanced Surround
listening modes with this setup.
Front L.
Surround L.
• Front surround 3-spot setup – This setup is ideal
when rear surround speaker placement isn't possible
or you want to avoid running long speaker cables in
your listening area. Use this setup together with the
Front Surround modes to take advantage of wall and
ceiling reflections for a very realistic surround effect.
Surround L.
Front L.
Note
• Make sure you have completed Using the Room
Setup on page 20. For a more detailed surround
sound setup, see Using the System Setup menu on
page 94.
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En
Subwoofer
Front R.
Center
Surround R.
Subwoofer
Front R.
Center
• Certain features explained in this section may not be
possible depending on the source (for example, 88.2
/ 96 kHz sources), or a conflicting system setting. See
Front panel display error messages on page 133 for
more on this.

Listening with home theater sound

You can listen to any source—DVD discs, the radio, an
external component—in stereo or surround sound, as
you like. If you want to listen to the source as it was
mastered, select the Auto listening mode. This
automatically selects a listening mode depending on the
channels present in the source material.
Surround R.
• Press SHIFT and SURROUND then use the
(cursor up/down) buttons to select a surround sound
listening mode.
• You can also hold down the SHIFT button and press
SURROUND repeatedly to select a listening mode.
The listening mode choices available will vary according
to the type of source that's playing (see below).
• Auto – Auto listening mode. If the source is Dolby
Digital or DTS, the 2 D or dts indicator in the front
panel display lights.
• Dolby Digital / dts – Multichannel Dolby Digital or
DTS decoding (depending on the source).
TUNE +
TUNE –
SURROUND
SHIFT