Listening In Stereo; Listening With Acoustic Calibration Eq - Pioneer 516-S/-K Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
3 Press EFFECT/CH SEL again to adjust
other settings .
Setting What it does
Center Spreads the center channel
a
between the front right and left
Width
speakers, making it sound
(Applicable
wider (higher settings) or
only when
narrower (lower settings).
using a cen-
ter speaker)
a Adjusts the surround sound
Dimension
balance from front to back,
making the sound more distant
(minus settings), or more
forward (positive settings).
a Extends the front stereo image
Panorama
to include surround speakers
for a 'wraparound' effect.
Center Adjusts the center image to
b
create a wider stereo effect with
Image
vocals. Adjust the effect from 0
(Applicable
(all center channel sent to front
only when
right and left speakers) to 10
using a cen-
ter speaker) (center channel sent to the
center speaker only).
Effect Sets the effect level for the
currently selected Advanced
Surround mode (each mode
can be set separately).
a Only available with 2ch sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Mu-
sic mode.
b Only available with 2ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.

Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO or DIRECT, you will
hear the source through just the front left and
right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer
depending on your speaker settings).
Note
1 If you switch on Midnight listening, Loudness, Dialog Enhancement, the Sound Retriever or the Tone controls when DIRECT
is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO.
Dolby Digital, DTS and WMA9 Pro multi-
channel sources are downmixed to stereo.
Options
0 to 7
Default: 3
• While listening to a source, press STEREO
for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
–3 to +3
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your
Default: 0
surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.
• DIRECT – Bypass all effects and surround
settings so that the audio remains as close
OFF
to the source audio signal as possible.
ON
• AUTO SURR. – See Auto playback on
page 25 for more on this.
0 to 10
Default: 3
Listening with Acoustic
Calibration EQ
VSX-516 model only
10 to 90
• Default setting: OFF / ALL CH (after the
Auto MCACC Setup or EQ Auto Setting)
You can listen to sources using the Acoustic
Calibration Equalization set in Automatically
setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on
page 8 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 33.
Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic
Calibration Equalization.
• While listening to a source, press (SHIFT +)
ACOUSTIC EQ.
Press repeatedly to select between:
• ALL CH – No special weighting is given to
any one channel.
CD CD-R FM AM
MIDNIGHT/
STANDARD ADV.SURR STEREO LOUDNESS
TOP MENU MENU
S.RETRIEVER RETURN
VOLUME
EFFECT/CH SEL LEVEL ACOUSTIC EQ
MUTE
HDD DVD
DVD/DVR SUBTITLE
CH CH
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