Listening To Your System; Choosing The Listening Mode; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-521-K Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system

Chapter 5:
Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode

This receiver offers a variety of listening modes to
accommodate playback of various audio formats. Choose
one according to your speaker environment or the source.
 While listening to a source, press the listening mode
button repeatedly to select a listening mode you want.
BD MENU
AUTO/ ALC/
DIRECT STEREO STANDARD ADV SURR
AUDIO TUNER EDIT MASTER
PARAMETER TOOLS VOLUME
DISPLAY BAND TUNER EDIT TUNE
AUTO SURROUND/ ALC/ ADVANCED SOUND
STREAM DIRECT STANDARD SURR SURROUND RETRIEVER AIR
• The listening mode is shown on the display on the front
panel.
Important
• The listening modes and many features described in this
section may not be available depending on the current
source, settings and status of the receiver.

Auto playback

AUTO/
DIRECT
The simplest, most direct listening option is the AUTO
SURROUND feature. With this, the receiver automatically
detects what kind of source you're playing and selects
multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.
• Press AUTO/DIRECT repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND
shows briefly in the display (it will then show the decoding
or playback format). Check the digital format indicators in
the display to see how the source is being processed.
Note
• Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded
accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx
MOVIE (see Listening in surround sound below for more
on these decoding formats).
• When listening to the ADAPTER input, the S.R AIR
feature is selected automatically (see Using the Advanced
surround on page 26 for more on this).
SOUND

Listening in surround sound

RETRIEVER
Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in surround
sound. However, the options available will depend on your
speaker setup and the type of source you're listening to.
• If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround
encoded, the proper decoding format will automatically
be selected and shows in the display.
When you select STEREO ALC (Auto Level Control stereo
mode), this unit equalizes playback sound levels if each
sound level varies with the music source recorded in a
portable audio player.
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.
The following modes provide basic surround sound for stereo
and multichannel sources.
Explanatory notes
No: No connected / Yes: Connected / Two: Two speakers are
connected / –: Whether connected or no
AUTO SURROUND/
STREAM DIRECT
Type of surround
modes
Two channel sources
STEREO ALC
DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
DOLBY PLIIx GAME
DOLBY PLII GAME
DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT
NEO:6 CINEMA
ALC/
ALC/
STANDARD SURR
NEO:6 MUSIC
STANDARD
DOLBY PRO LOGIC
Straight Decode
STEREO
Multichannel sources
STEREO ALC
DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
DOLBY DIGITAL EX
DTS-ES
DTS NEO:6
DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT
Straight Decode
STEREO
Suitable sources
See above.
Movie
Yes
b Music
Yes
b
Video games
Yes
c Movie/Music
d Movie
d Music
Old movies
e No additional effects
f See above.
See above.
Movie
Two
b Music
Two
b
Movie/Music
Movie/Music
Movie/Music
Movie/Music
e No additional effects
f See above.
05
05
– –
a No
No –
a No
No –
a No
No –
No Yes
– –
– –
– –
No –
– –
– –
a No
No –
a No
No –
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
No Yes
– –
– –
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