Listening To Your System; Choosing The Listening Mode; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-330-K Operating Instructions Manual

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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.
• 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 SURROUND/
AUTO/
STREAM DIRECT
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 (see

Listening in surround sound

below for more on these decoding formats).
Listening in surround sound
ALC/
STANDARD
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
Type of surround modes Suitable sources
Two channel sources
See above.
STEREO ALC
Movie
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
Music
a
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
Video games
DOLBY PLII GAME
Movie
b
NEO:6 CINEMA
Music
b
NEO:6 MUSIC
Old movies
DOLBY PRO LOGIC
See above.
c
STEREO
Multichannel sources
See above.
STEREO ALC
Straight Decode No additional effects
See above.
c
STEREO
You can also adjust the C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM. effect
a.
(see Setting the Audio options on page 24).
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You can also adjust the C.IMG effect (see
b.
ALC/ options on page 24).
STANDARD SURR
• You can choose the STEREO mode by using
c.
• The audio is heard with your surround settings and you can
still use the Midnight, Loudness, Phase Control, Sound
Retriever and Tone functions.

Using the Advanced surround

The Advanced surround feature creates a variety of surround
effects. Try different modes with various soundtracks to see
which you like.
ACTION
DRAMA
ADVANCED GAME Suitable for video games.
SPORTS
CLASSICAL
ROCK/POP
EXT.STEREO
F.S.S.ADVANCE
(Front Stage
Surround
ADVANCE)
PHONES SURR
Setting the Audio
STEREO button.
ADVANCED
SURROUND
ADV SURR
Designed for action movies with dynamic
soundtracks.
Designed for movies with lots of dialog.
Suitable for sports programs.
Gives a large concert hall-type sound.
Creates a live concert sound for rock and/or
pop music.
Gives multichannel sound to a stereo
source, using all of your speakers.
Allows you to create natural surround
sound effects using just the front speakers
and the subwoofer.
Use to provide a rich surround sound effect
directed to the center of where the front left
and right speakers sound projection area
converges.
Front left Front right
speaker speaker
When listening through headphones, you
can still get the effect of overall surround.
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