Listening In Stereo; Listening With Acoustic Calibration Eq - Pioneer VSX-816-K Operating Instructions Manual

06 Listening to your system
Setting What it does
Center Adjusts the center image to
b
create a wider stereo effect with
Image
vocals. Adjust the effect from 0
(Applicable
(all center channel sent to front
only when
right and left speakers) to 10
using a cen-
ter speaker) (center channel sent to the
center speaker only).
Effect Sets the effect level for the
currently selected Advanced
Surround mode (each mode
can be set separately).
a Only available with 2ch sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Mu-
sic mode (also available with 2 Pro Logic II 5.1sound).
b Only available with 2ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.

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.
STANDARD ADV.SURR
• While listening to a source, press STEREO
for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your
surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, and Tone 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 28 for more on this.
Note
1 If you switch on Midnight listening, Loudness, Dialog Enhancement, the Sound Retriever or the tone controls when DIRECT
is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO.
2 • You can't use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, WMA9 Pro or XM Surround, and it has no effect with headphones.
• If you switch on Acoustic Calibration EQ when DIRECT is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO.
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En
Options
0 to 10
Default: 3
10 to 90
STEREO AUTO SURR
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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 9 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 37.
Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic
Calibration Equalization.
DIALOG E S.RETRIEVER
C /C S
• 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.
ACOUSTIC EQ SIGNAL SEL
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