Using The Advanced Surround; Using Stream Direct - Pioneer VSX-531 Operating Instructions Manual

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Multichannel sources
STEREO ALC See above.
Straight Decode No additional effects
c See above.
STEREO
a. You can also adjust the C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM. effect
(see Setting the Audio options on page
b. You can also adjust the C.IMG effect (see
options on page 24).
c. You can choose the STEREO mode by using
button.
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
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Setting the Audio
DRAMA
ADVANCED
STEREO
GAME
SPORTS
CLASSICAL
ROCK/POP
EXT.STEREO
F.S.S.ADVANCE
(Front Stage
Surround
ADVANCE)
PHONES SURR
ECO 1
ECO 2
ADVANCED
SURROUND
ADV SURR
Designed for action movies with dynamic
soundtracks.
Designed for movies with lots of dialog.
Suitable for video games.
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.
Cut back on power consumption. Suitable
for contents that are mainly high level
(mainly music).
Cut back on even more power
consumption than ECO 1. Suitable for
contents with wider dynamic range (mainly
movies).
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Listening to your system
Note
• During ECO mode, the brightness switches between 2
levels. If the dimmest level is selected, DIMMER will be
shown on the display. (Mode other than ECO: 4 levels,
ECO mode: 2 levels)
• ECO MODE will switch OFF automatically when switched
to other listening modes (Advanced surround mode and
Auto surround mode).

Using Stream Direct

AUTO SURROUND/
AUTO/
STREAM DIRECT
DIRECT
Use the Stream Direct modes when you want to hear the
truest possible reproduction of a source. All unnecessary
signal processing is bypassed.
AUTO See Auto playback on page
SURROUND
DIRECT Sources are heard according to the
settings made in the Manual SP Setup
(speaker setting, X.Over, channel level,
speaker distance), as well as with dual
mono settings. You will hear sources
according to the number of channels in the
signal.
Phase Control, Sound Delay, Fixed PCM,
SACD Gain, HDMI Audio, Auto Delay and
LFE Attenuate functions are available.
PURE DIRECT Analog and PCM sources are heard
without any digital processing.
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