Listening In Stereo; Using Front Stage Surround Advance - Pioneer VSX-LX52 Operating Instructions Manual

06 Listening to your system
• DRAMA – Designed for movies with lots of dialog
• SCI-FI – Designed for science fiction with lots of
special effects
• MONO FILM – Creates surround sound from mono
soundtracks
• ENT.SHOW – Suitable for musical sources
• EXPANDED – Creates an extra wide stereo field
• TV SURROUND – Provides surround sound for both
mono and stereo TV sources
• ADVANCED GAME – Suitable for video games
• SPORTS – Suitable for sports programs
• CLASSICAL – Gives a large concert hall-type sound
• ROCK/POP – Creates a live concert sound for rock
and/or pop music
• UNPLUGGED – Suitable for acoustic music sources
• EXT.STEREO – Gives multichannel sound to a stereo
source, using all of your speakers
• PHONES SURR – When listening through
headphones, you can still get the effect of overall
surround.
Tip
• When an Advanced Surround listening mode is
selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the
EFFECT parameter in Setting the Audio options on
page 60.

Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO, you will hear the source
through just the front left and right speakers (and
possibly your subwoofer depending on your speaker
settings). Dolby Digital, DTS and WMA9 Pro
multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.
• While listening to a source, press
press STEREO for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
Note
1 Use with Dolby Pro Logic for a stereo surround effect (stereo field is wider than Standard modes with Dolby Digital sources).
2 When using F.S.SURR WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if the Full Auto MCACC procedure under Advanced MCACC is performed. For
more on this, refer to Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto MCACC) on page 39.
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AUTO/ALC/ MENU
STEREO STANDARD
DIRECT ADV SURR
HDD DVD
THX PHASE CTRL STATUS
TV/DTV MPX PQLS
CH
AUDIO INFO
DISP
TV CTRL RECEIVER
REMOTE
SETUP
RECEIVER
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your surround
settings and you can still use the Midnight,
Loudness, and Tone functions.
• F.S.SURR FOCUS – See Using Front Stage Surround
Advance below for more on this.
• F.S.SURR WIDE – See Using Front Stage Surround
Advance below for more on this.
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Using Front Stage Surround Advance

The Front Stage Surround Advance function allows you to
create natural surround sound effects using just the front
speakers and the subwoofer.
• While listening to a source, press
press STEREO to select Front Stage Surround Advance
modes.
• STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for more on
this.
• F.S.SURR FOCUS – Use to provide a rich surround
sound effect directed to the center of where the front
left and right speakers sound projection area
converges.
• F.S.SURR WIDE – Use to provide a surround sound
effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.
FOCUS position
(Recommended)
Front left
speaker
, then
AUTO/ALC/ MENU
STEREO STANDARD
DIRECT ADV SURR
HDD DVD
THX PHASE CTRL STATUS
TV/DTV MPX PQLS
CH
AUDIO INFO
DISP
RECEIVER
TV CTRL
REMOTE
SETUP
RECEIVER
2
WIDE position
Front right Front left Front right
speaker speaker speaker
, then