Using The Virtual Surround Back Mode; Setting The Up Mix Function - Pioneer VSX-9040TXH - 110 Watt x 7 Direct Energy Amplification Receiver Operating Instructions Manual

06 Listening to your system

Using the Virtual Surround Back mode

• Default setting: OFF
When you're not using surround back speakers,
selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround
back channel through your surround speakers. You can
choose to listen to sources with no surround back
channel information, or if the material sounds better in
the format (for example, 5.1) for which it was originally
encoded, you can have the receiver only apply this effect
to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES.
• Press SBch repeatedly to cycle the virtual surround
back channel options.
Each press cycles through the options as follows:
• VirtualSB ON – Virtual Surround Back is always used
(for example, on 5.1 encoded material)
• VirtualSB AUTO – Virtual Surround Back is
automatically applied to 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)
• VirtualSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is
switched off

Setting the Up Mix function

In a 7.1-channel surround system with surround
speakers placed directly at the sides of the listening
position, the surround sound of 5.1-channel sources is
heard from the side. The Up Mix function mixes the
sound of the surround speakers with the surround back
speakers so that the surround sound is heard from
diagonally to the rear as it should be.
• Using the Up Mix function is effective when the
speakers in the 7.1-channel surround system are set
up as recommended in the example on page 18.
Note
1 • You can't use the Virtual Surround Back mode when the headphones are connected to this receiver or when any of the stereo, Front Stage
Surround Advance or Stream Direct mode is selected.
• You can only use the Virtual Surround Back mode if the surround speakers are on and the SB setting is set to NO or if Front Bi-Amp, Speaker B
or ZONE 2 is selected at Surr Back System.
• The Virtual Surround Back mode cannot be applied to sources that do not have surround channel information.
2 • Set to ON regardless of this setting when playing DTS-HD signals.
• May automatically be set to OFF even when set to ON, depending on the input signal and listening mode.
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• Depending on the positions of the speakers and the
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press  STANDBY/ON.
The display shows RESET  NO .
Use TUNE +/– (or / on the remote control) to select
UP MIX  ON , and then use PRESET +/– (or / on
the remote control) to select ON or OFF.
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• When set to ON, the UP MIX indicator on the front
sound source, in some cases it may not be possible
to achieve good results. In this case, set the setting to
OFF.
Up Mix OFF Up Mix ON
SW C
L R
SL SR
?
SBL SBR
STANDBY/ON
TUNE TUNE
BAND
INPUT AUTO SURR /ALC/
STREAM DIRECT
SELECTOR
PHONES
VSX-9140TXH
Switch the receiver into standby.
While holding down ENTER on the front panel,
Press ENTER to confirm.
panel lights.
SW C
L R
SL SR
SBL SBR
ENTER
PHASE ADVANC
PRESET PRESET
CONTROL PQLS MCACC HDMI TUNER EDIT
MULTI-ZONE
SPEAKERS STEREO CONTROL ON / OFF
PUSH
OPEN