Listening To Your System; Choosing The Listening Mode; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-S300-k Operating Instrctions

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Listening to your system

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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.
iPod USB NETWORK ADAPTER
TUNER BD DVD
CD STB GAME
RECEIVER TV PORTABLE
• 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.
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Auto playback

The simplest, most direct listening option is the AUTO SURR
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 SURR 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
AUTO /
• Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded
DIRECT
accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or 2PLIIx MOVIE
ALC /
(see Listening in surround sound below for more on these
STANDARD
decoding formats).
ADV
SURR
• When listening to the ADAPTER input, the S.R AIR
feature is selected automatically (see Using the Advanced
SOUND
WING
surround on page 23 for more on this).

Listening in surround sound

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 /
DIRECT
ALC /
STANDARD
Type of surround
Suitable sources
modes
Two channel sources
STEREO ALC See above.
2PRO LOGIC
Old movies
2PLIIx MOVIE
Movie
2PLII MOVIE
b Music
2PLIIx MUSIC
b
2PLII MUSIC
2PLIIx GAME
Video games
2PLII GAME
c Movie/Music
2PLIIz HEIGHT
d No additional effects
Straight Decode
e Movie
NEO:6 CINEMA
e Music
NEO:6 MUSIC
f See above.
STEREO
Multichannel sources
STEREO ALC
See above.
2PLIIx MOVIE
Movie
2PLII MOVIE
b Music
2PLIIx MUSIC
b
2PLII MUSIC
2DIGITAL EX
Movie/Music
2PLIIz HEIGHT
Movie/Music
d No additional effects
Straight Decode
DTS-ES Movie/Music
DTS NEO:6 Movie/Music
f See above.
STEREO
– –
– –
a No
Yes
No –
a No
Yes
No –
a No
Yes
No –
No Yes
No –
– –
– –
– –
– –
a No
Two
No –
a No
Two
No –
Yes No
No Yes
– –
Yes No
Yes No
– –