Listening In Stereo; Listening With Acoustic Calibration Eq - Pioneer 915 Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
1 With Neo:6 MUSIC mode active, press
EFFECT/CH SEL repeatedly to select C.
IMAGE.
2 Use the +/– buttons to adjust the
setting.
Adjust the effect from 0 (all center channel
sent to front right and left speakers) to 10
(center channel sent to the center speaker
only).

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). Dolby
Digital and DTS multichannel sources are
downmixed to stereo.
RECEIVER CONTROL
STANDARD ADV.SURR
MIDNIGHT/
LOUDNESS DIALOG E
EFFECT
SHIFT
/CH SEL
• While listening to a source, press STEREO
for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your
surround settings (such as channel level)
and you can still use digital processing
(such as the Midnight, Loudness, and Tone
control functions).
• DIRECT – Bypass all effects and surround
settings so that the audio remains as close
to the source audio signal as possible.
• AUTO SURR. – See Auto playback on
page 34 for more on this.
Note
1 If you switch on Midnight listening, Loudness, Dialog Enhancement, or the Tone controls when DIRECT is selected, the receiv-
er automatically switches to STEREO.
2 • You can't use Acoustic Calibration EQ when DVD 5.1ch is on, 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.
CH CH
STEREO SLEEP
ACOUSTIC
EQ INPUT ATT
LEVEL
1
Listening with Acoustic
Calibration EQ
• 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 12 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 46.
Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic
Calibration Equalization.
RECEIVER CONTROL
STANDARD ADV.SURR
MIDNIGHT/
LOUDNESS DIALOG E
EFFECT
SHIFT
/CH SEL
INPUT
FL DIMMER ATT SPEAKERS
TUNING TUNER
BAND /STATION EDIT
• While listening to a source, press
ACOUSTIC EQ.
Press repeatedly to select between:
• ALL CH – No special weighting is given to
any one channel.
• 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.
CH CH
STEREO SLEEP
ACOUSTIC
EQ INPUT ATT
LEVEL
EXTENDED
ACOUSTIC
MODE EQ
QUICK SYSTEM
TONE SETUP SETUP RETURN
MULTI JOG
2
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