Surround Mode Selection; Digital Audio Playback - Harman Kardon AVR 525 Owner's Manual

OPERATION
remove thetonecontrols from thecircuitsothatthe
outputis "fiat"atanytimebypressing theToneMode
Button [] andthenpressing the ,_/, Buttons
[[_['_J sothatT 0 N E 0 I=I= appears inthe on-
screen display andthe Lower DisplayLine []
• Forprivate listening, plugthe 1/4" stereophone
plugfroma pairof stereoheadphones intothefront-
panelHeadphone Jack [] Whenthe headphone's
plugis connected, the wordHE A]) P H0 NE will
scrollonceacrosstheLower DisplayLine [] and
all speakers w illbe silencedWhen the headphone
plugis removed, the audiofeedto thespeakers w ill
be restored
Surround Mode Selection
Oneof themostimpoflant f eatures o f the AVR525
is its abilily to reproduce a flJllmultichannel surround
soundfieldfromdigital s ources, analog matrix
surround encoded programs a ndstandard stereo
programs
Selection o fa surround modeis based onpersonal
taste, a swellasthetypeof program source material
beingusedForexample, motion piduresorfV pro
gramsbearing t he logoof oned themajorsurround
encoding processes, suchasDolbySurround, DES
Stereo or UltraStereo ® maybeplayed ineither t he
Dolby Digital, DolbyProLogicIICinema, D ISNeo:6
Cinema, or Logic7 Cinema surround modes depending
on thesource material
NOTE: O nce a program hasbeenencoded w ithmatrix
surround information, it retains thesurround information
aslongasthe program is broadcast instereo]hus,
movies withsurround sound maybedecoded viaanyof
theanalog surround modes suchasProLogicII
Cinema, L ogic7 Cinema or DES Neo:6Cinema, when
theyarebroadcasl viaconventional ]V stations, cable,
pay]V andsatellite t ransmission I naddition, agrowing
number o f madefor-television programs, sports broad
casts, r adiodramas andmusic CDsarealso recorded in
surround soundYoumayviewa listof theseprograms
at theDolbyLaboratories Websiteat_w dolbycom
Even whena program is nollisted ascarrying intentional
surround information, youmayfindthatthe ProLogicII,
Logic 7 Enhanced o r DIS Neo:6, V MAxandthe Hall o r
]heatermodes oftendeliver e nveloping surround pre-
sentations through the useof thenatural i nformation
present i nallstereo recordings
Surround modesmaybechanged at anytimeby
usingeitherthefrontpanel o r remote control10
selecta newsurround modefromthe frontpanel, f irst
pressthe SurroundMode GroupSelectorButton
[] untilthedesired majorsurround modegroupsuch
as Dolby, D IS or Logic7 is selectedNext, p ressthe
SurroundMode SelectorButton [] to choose the
specific individual surround mode
10 select a surround modeusingthe remote, p ress
the buttonforthe majorsurround modegroupthat
includes t he modeyouwishto choose from:Dolby
q_), DTSSurround _, DTSNeo:6 _,
Logic 7 _, Stereo _ or DSPSurround
]he firstpressof the buttonwillshowthecurrent
modefromthatgroupif it is already inuse,or the first
available modeif youarecurrently u singanother
mode10cyclethrough theavailable modesinthat
grouppressthe buttonagainuntilthedesired mode
appears inthe LowerDisplayLine [] andtheon-
screendisplay
Asthe surround modeschange, a greenLEDwilllight
nextto the current m odeinthe SurroundMode
Indicators[] listonthe frontpanel
]he DolbyDigital, D olbyDigital E xandDFS51, DIS
ESMatrix andDIS ESDiscrete modesmayonlybe
selected whenadigitalinputis inuse Inaddition,
whena digital s ourceispresent, t heAVR525 will
automatically selectandswitch to thecorrect m ode,
regardless of the modethathasbeenpreviously
selectedFormoreinformation onselecting d igital
sources, seethe Digital AudioPlayback s ection below
Whenthe 6 Channel/8 Channel directinputs arein
usethereis nosurround processing, astheseinputs
takethe analog outputsignals froman optional, exter
nalDVD Audioor SACD player, or another s ource
deviceandcarrythemstraight through to thevolume
control w ithout a nyflJrther d igitalprocessing
10 listen to a program intraditional twochannel stereo,
using the frontleftandfrontright s peakers o nly(plus
the subwoofer, if installed a ndconfigured), pressthe
StereoButton _ untilSURR OFF appears i nthe
MainInformation DisplayI_, Press t heSurround
ModeGroupSelector[] until t heStereo modes
appear i ntheon screen display andLowerDisplay
Line [] Next, p ressthe SurroundModeSelect
Button[] untilSUI_ROUN]) OFF appears in
the on screen display andLowerDisplayLine []
Digital Audio Playback
Digital audioisa major a dvancement overolder analog
surround processing systems s uchasDolby ProLogicIt
delivers f ivediscrete c hannels: leftfront,center, right
front,leftsurround andright s urround Each channel
reproduces flJll % quency range(20Hz to 20kHz) a nd
offers dramatically improved d ynamic r ange andsignifi
cantimprovements to signal t o noise ratiosInaddition,
digital s ystems h avethecapabilily to deliver anadditional
channel thatisspecifically devoted tolowfrequency
information t his isthe"1" channel referred towhenyou
seethesesystems d escribed a s"51 ,""61" or "71"
]he bass channel isseparate f romtheotherchannels,
butsince it is intentionally bandwidth-limited, sound
designers havegivenitthatunique designation
DolbyDigital
DolbyDigital isastandard p arld DVD, andisavailable
onspecially e ncoded LDdiscs andsatellite b roadcasts
andit isa pailof thehigh-definition television ( HD rV)
system
Anoptional, external R Edemodulator is required to
usetheAVR525 to listen to the DolbyDigital sound
tracksavailable o n laserdiscsConnect t he RFoutput
of the LDplayer to the demodulator andthenconnect
thedigitaloutputd thedemodulator to the Opticalor
CoaxialInputs _'F_i"_] @ _ of theAVR525 No
demodulator is required forusewithDVD players or
DIS encoded laserdiscs
DTS
DIS is another d igital a udiosystemthatis capable of
delivering 5 1 or 61 discrete or matrix sound field
reproduction Although bothDIS andDolbyDigital a re
digital, t heyusedifferent m ethods of encoding thesig
nals, a ndthustheyrequire different d ecoding circuits
to convert t he digital s ignals backto analog
DIS encoded soundtracks areavailable o n selectDVD
andLDdiscs, a swellason special a udioonlyDES
discsYoumayuseanyLDor CDplayer equipped
witha digital o utputto playDTSencoded discswith
theAVR525 Allthatis required is to connect t he
player's o utputto either a n Opticalor CoaxialInput
onthe rearpanel@ @ or frontpanel_'F_i"_]
Inorderto listen to DVDs encoded withDIS sound
tracks, t he DVDplayer mustbe compatible w iththe
DIS signal a sindicated bya DESlogoonthe player's
frontpanelEarlyDVD players maynot beableto play
DIS encoded DVDs]his doesnot indicate a problem
withtheAVR525, assomeplayers cannotpassthe
DIS signal t hrough to the digital o utputsIfyouarein
doubtasto the capability o f yourDVD player to handle
DIS discs, c onsult t he player's o wner'smanual
NOTE: S omeDVDplayers havea default s ettingthat
doesnot pass through the DIS signal Before playing
DVDs witha DESsoundtrack, makecertain thatthe
setlings inyourDVD player h avebeenproperly a djusted
sothatDTSaudiois passed throughConsult t he
Owner's Manual f oryourDVD player formoreinfor
marion on making thesesettings