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Listening to your system
• F. ALIGN – All speakers are heard in
accordance with the front speaker
settings.
• CUSTOM 1/2 – Custom settings
• EQ OFF – Switches Acoustic Calibration
EQ off.
The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights
when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.
Choosing the input signal
• Default setting: AUTO
You need to hook up a component to both
analog and digital inputs on the rear of the
receiver to select between input signals.
•
Press SIGNAL SELECT (front panel) to
select the input signal corresponding to the
source component.
Each press cycles through the following:
• AUTO – This automatically switches to
DIGITAL if a digital source is detected,
otherwise it remains on ANALOG.
• ANALOG – Selects the analog inputs.
• DIGITAL – Selects the digital input.
When set to DIGITAL or AUTO, 2 DIGITAL
lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and
DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.
Note
1 • You can't use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch or WMA9 Pro, and it has no effect when headphones are connected.
• If you switch on Acoustic Calibration EQ when DIRECT is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO.
2 • This receiver can only playback Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other
digital signal formats, set to ANALOG.
• You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make
the proper digital connections (page 11) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.
• Some DVD players don't output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.
3 • You can't use the surround back channel with headphones, the STEREO / DIRECT mode, or if the surround back speaker is
set to NO in Speaker setting on page 35.
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En
U sing surround back channel
processing
VSX-516 model only
• Default setting: SB ON
You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1
decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
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example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you
can choose to always use 6.1 decoding (for
example, with 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1
encoded sources, a surround back channel
will be generated, but the material may sound
better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi-
nally encoded (in which case, you can simply
switch surround back processing off).
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The table below indicates when you will hear
the surround back channel ( =Sound plays
through surround back speaker).
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Press SB ch ( SB ch PROCESSING ) to select
a surround back channel option.
Each press cycles through the following:
• SB ON – 6.1 decoding is always used (for
example, a surround back channel will be
generated for 5.1 encoded material)
• SB AUTO – Automatically switches to 6.1
decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)
• SB OFF – Maximum 5.1 playback
Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB)
When you're not using surround back speaker,
selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual
surround back channel through your surround
speakers. You can choose to listen to sources
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