Listening To Your System; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-819H Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system

Chapter 5:
Listening to your system
Important
• The listening modes and many features
described in this section may not be
available depending on the current source,
setting and status of the receiver.

Auto playback

The simplest, most direct listening option is the
Auto Surround feature. With this, the receiver
automatically detects what kind of source
you're playing and selects multichannel or
stereo playback as necessary.
AUTO/ AUTO/ STEREO/
DIRECT DIRECT A.L.C.
AUDIO
• While listening to a source, press
2
AUTO/DIRECT for auto playback of a
source.
Press repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND
shows briefly in the display (it will then show
the decoding or playback format). Check the
digital format indicators in the display to see
how the source is being processed.
Note
1 Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE (see Listening in
surround sound above for more on these decoding formats).
2 For more options using this button, see Using Stream Direct on page 36.
3 When listening to 2-channel sources in DOLBY PLII MUSIC mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust:
C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM.. See Setting the Audio options on page 38 to adjust them.
4 • If surround back channel processing (page 37) is switched off, or the surround back speakers are set to NO, DOLBY PLIIx
becomes DOLBY PLII (5.1 channel sound).
• In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is heard from both surround back speakers.
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STANDARD ADV SURR
TUNER EDIT MASTER

Listening in surround sound

Using this receiver, you can listen to any source
in surround sound. However, the options
available will depend on your speaker setup
and the type of source you're listening to.
The following modes provide basic surround
sound for stereo and multichannel sources.
AUTO/ STEREO/
DIRECT A.L.C.
AUDIO
• While listening to a source, press
STANDARD.
If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby
Surround encoded, the proper decoding
format will automatically be selected and
shows in the display.
When the surround back speaker is not
connected
With two channel sources, you can select from:
• DOLBY PLII MOVIE – Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited to movie sources
• DOLBY PLII MUSIC
sound, especially suited to music sources
• DOLBY PLII GAME – Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited for video games
• DOLBY PRO LOGIC – 4.1 channel
surround sound
When the surround back speaker is
4
connected.
If you connected surround back speakers, see
also Using surround back channel processing
on page 37.
STANDARD STANDARD ADV SURR
TUNER EDIT MASTER
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– Up to 5.1 channel
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