Using The Advanced Surround Effects; Setting The Effect Options - Pioneer VSX-517-S/-K Operating Instructions Manual

05 Listening to your system
• Neo:6 CINEMA – 6.1 channel sound,
especially suited to movie sources
• Neo:6 MUSIC – 6.1 channel sound,
especially suited to music sources
VSX-817 model only – With multichannel
sources, if you have connected surround back
speaker(s) and have selected SB ON, you can
select (according to format):
• 2 Pro Logic IIx MOVIE – See above
• 2 Pro Logic IIx MUSIC – See above
• Dolby Digital EX – Creates surround back
channel sound for 5.1 channel sources and
provides pure decoding for 6.1 channel
sources (like Dolby Digital Surround EX)
• DTS-ES – Allows you to hear 6.1 channel
playback with DTS encoded sources

Using the Advanced surround effects

The Advanced surround feature creates a
variety of surround effects. Try different modes
with various soundtracks to see which you like.
CD CD-R FM
STEREO/
AUTO SURR STANDARD
F.S.SURR
TOP MENU
Above: VSX-517 (left) and VSX-817 (right)
• Press ' ADV.SURR ' repeatedly to select a
listening mode.
• ACTION – Designed for action movies with
dynamic soundtracks.
• DRAMA – Designed for movies with lots of
dialog.
• MONOFILM – Creates surround sound
from mono soundtracks.
• ENT. SHOW – Suitable for musical sources.
• EXPANDED – Creates an extra wide stereo
2
field.
• TV SURR. – Provides surround sound for
both mono and stereo TV sources.
Note
1 • If you press ADV.SURR with the headphones connected, PHONES SURROUND will automatically be selected.
• VSX-817 model only – Depending on the source and the sound mode you have selected, you may not get sound from the
surround back speaker in your setup. For more on this, refer to Using surround back channel processing on page 35.
• When an Advanced Surround listening mode is selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the EFFECT parameter in
Setting the effect options below.
2 Use with Dolby Pro Logic for a stereo surround effect (stereo field is wider than Standard modes with Dolby Digital sources).
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En
CD-R/TAPE
AM
CD FM AM
STEREO/
ADV.SURR AUTO SURR STANDARD
F.S.SURR
ACOUSTIC
PHASE DIALOG
EQ
MENU
• ADV. GAME – Suitable for video games.
• SPORTS – Suitable for sports programs.
• ROCK/POP – Creates a live concert sound
for rock and/or pop music.
• UNPLUGED – Suitable for acoustic music
sources.
• X-STEREO – Gives multichannel sound to a
stereo source, using all of your speakers.
• PHONESUR. – Creates the effect of overall
surround with headphones.

Setting the effect options

When using surround effects, there are a
number of settings you can adjust.
1 Press EFFECT/CH SEL repeatedly to select
the setting you want to adjust.
Depending on the current status / mode of the
receiver, certain options may not appear.
Check the table below for notes on this.
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2 Use the LEVEL +/– buttons to set it as
necessary.
RECEIVER
See the table below for the options available for
ADV.SURR
each setting. The defaults, if not stated, are
SOUND
RETRIEVER
listed in bold.
3 Press EFFECT/CH SEL again to adjust
other settings .
Setting
Center
a
Width
(Applicable
only when
using a cen-
ter speaker)
a
Dimension
What it does
Spreads the center channel
between the front right and left
speakers, making it sound
wider (higher settings) or
narrower (lower settings).
Adjusts the surround sound
balance from front to back,
making the sound more distant
(minus settings), or more
forward (positive settings).
Options
0 to 7
Default: 3
–3 to +3
Default: 0