Surround Mode Selection; Digital Audio Playback - Harman Kardon AVR 335 Owner's Manual

OPERATION
to confirm thatnoprocessing i s beingused, W hen
the headphone p lugis removed, theaudiofeedto
the speakers w ill berestored.
• Whenthe headphones areinuse,youmaytake
advantage o f the DolbyHeadphone m odesto bring
addedspaciousness to headphone l istening. Press
the DolbyMode SelectButton _ or the
Surround ModeGroupSelector[] to cycle
throughthethreeDolbyHeadphone modesand
selectthe onethatyou prefer.
Surround Mode Selection
Oneof the mostimportant features of theA\/R335
is itsabilityto reproduce a fullmultichannel surround
sound fieldfrom digital s ources, analog matrix
surround encoded programs andstandard
stereoprograms.
Selection o f a surround modeisbased on personal
taste, a swellasthe typeof program source material
beingused. F orexample, motion pictures or R/
programs b eadng t he logoof oneof themajor
surround encoding processes, suchasDo]by Surround
or DTSStereo, maybe played ineither t he DoJby
Digital, DolbyProLogicIICinema, D TS Neo:6Cinema
or Logic7 Cinema surround modes, depending o nthe
source material.
NOTE: O ncea program hasbeen encoded withmatrix
surround inturmation, it retains thesurround informaaon
aslongastheprogram isbroadcast instereo, Thus,
movies w ithsurround sound maybedecoded viaany
ofthe analog surround modes suchasDolbyProLogic
IIMovie, L ogic7 Cinema or DTSNeo:6Cinema, when
theyambroadcast viaconventional R/stations, c able,
payIV andsatellite l lansmission. Inaddition, a growing
number o f made-foptelevision programs, sports broad
casts, r adio dramas andmusicCDsarealsorecorded in
surround sound.
Even whena program is notlisted ascarrying intenSonal
surround informallon, youmayfindthattheDolbyPro
LogicII,Logic7 Enhanced or DTSNeo:6, V MAx and
theHallorTheater m odes often deliver e nveloping sur
roundpresentations through the useof thenatural i nfor
marion present i nallstereorecordings.
Surround modes maybe changed atany11me b y
usingeither t he frontpanel o r remote control. T o
select a newsurround modefromthefrontpanel, f irst
pressthe SurroundModeGroupSelectorButton
[] unSl t he desired majorsurround modegroupsuch
asDolby, D TS or Logic7 is selected. N ext, p ressthe
SurroundModeSelectorButton [] to choose the
specific individual surround mode.
Toselect a surround modeusing the remote, press
the button forthe major s urround modegroupthat
includes t he modeyouwishto choose from:Dolby
_), DTSSurround_, DTSNeo:6_.9,
Logic 7 _.IL Stereo 0 or DSPSurround_.
Thefirstpressof the button willshow the current m ode
f_om thatgroupif it is already i nuse,or the firstavail
ablemodeif youarecurrently u sing another m ode. T o
cyclethro%htheavailable modes inthatgroup, p ress
the buffon againuntilthedesired modeappears inthe
Lower DisplayLine [_'_,intheon-screen display and
inthe SurroundMode Indicators _'TI
Asthesurround modeschange, the appropriate
SurroundMode Indicator[] will lightto indicate
whichmodehasbeenselected.
TheDolbyDigital, D olbyDigital E X andDTS5.1,
DTSESMatrix andDTSESDiscrete modesmayonly
be selected whena digitalinputis in use.Inaddition,
whena digital s ourceis present, t heAVR335 will
automaScally selectandswitch to the correct m ode,
regardless o f the modethathasbeenpreviously
selected. F ormoreinformation on selecting d igital
sources, seethe Digital AudioPlayback s ectionbelow.
TheDobyPm LogicIIxmodes areavailable o nly
whentheAVR335 hasbeenconfigured for 6.1/7,1
operation bysettingthe Surround Backspeakers a s
either"Large" o r "Small" a s described o n page23.
Thesemodes provide a matrixed 6.1-channel presen
tationof analogsources. Seepage29 for moreinfor
mation.
When the 6 channel/8 channel directinputsarein
usethereis no surround processing, as theseinputs
taketheanalogoutputsignals l_omanoptional, e xter
nalDVDAudioor SACD playe_, or another s ource
device andcarrythemstraight t hrough to the volume
control w ithoutanyfurther d igitalprocessing.
Tolisten to a program int_aditional lwo channel stareo,
usingthef_ont l eftandf_ont r ightspeakers o nly(plus
thesubwoofer, if installed a ndconfigured), pressthe
StereoButton_[_ untilSURR OFF appears inthe
LowerDisplayLine _i_, or press theSurround Mode
GroupSelector[] until t heStereo modes appear i n
theon screen display andLower DisplayLine _fi_,
NextpresstheSurroundModeSelectButton[]
untilSUR R0 U N1) 0 F F appears intheon-screen
display andLower DisplayLine _fi_.
The Surround Offmodeprovides a n analog bypass of
the digital p rocessing, including bassmanagement.
Scroll u nSl S U I_I_0 U ND 0 F F D SP appears if
yourequire bassmanagement (usually u sedwhenthe
system includes a separate, subwoofer).
Digital Audio Playback
Digital audiois amajoradvancement overolder analog
surround processing systems s uchasDolby ProLogic.
Itdelivers f ivediscrete c hannels: leftfront, c enter, right
f_ont, l eftsurround andright s urround. Each channel
reproduces fullf_equency range(20Hz to 20kHz) a nd
offers dramatically improved d ynamic r ange andsignifl
cantimprovements to signal-to-noise rallos. I naddition,
digital s ystems h ave the capability todeliver a nadditional
channel thatis spedfically devoted to lowf_equency
information. Thisisthe ".1"channel referred t o when you
seethese systems d escribed a s%.1,""6.1"or "7.1:'
Thebasschannel is separate f _om theother c hannels,
butsince it isintentionally bandwidthdimited, sound
designers h avegiven it thatunique designation.
DolbyDigital
Dolby Digital isa standard p artof DVD, andisavail-
ableon specially e ncoded L Ddiscsandsatellite b road-
casts andit isa partof thehigh-definition television
(HDTV) system.
An optional, external R Fdemodulator is required to
usetheAVR335 to listen to the DolbyDigital s ound-
tracksavailable on laserdiscs. C onnect t he REoutput
of the LDplayer to thedemodulator andthenconnect
the digital o utputof the demodulator to the Optical or
CoaxialInputsi"1_it_'I_"3_, o f theAVR335. No
demodulator is required forusewithDVDplayers o r
DTSencoded laserdiscs.
DTS
DTSisanother d igital a udiosystem thatiscapable of
delivering 5.1 or 6.1 discrete or matrix sound field
reproduction. Although bothDTSandDolbyDigital are
digital, t heyusedifferent m ethods of encoding the sig
nals, a ndthustheyrequire different d ecoding circuits
to convert the digitalsignals backto analog.
DTSencoded soundt_acks areavailable on selectDVD
andLDdiscs, a swellason special audioonlyDTS
discs. Y oumayuseany LDor CDplayer e quipped
witha digitaloutputto playDTSencoded discswith
theAVR335.All thatis required isto connect t he
player's o utputto eitheran Opticalor CoaxialInput
on the rearpanel _ -_ or frontpanel _ ]_'I_"1.
Inorderto listen to DVDs encoded withDTSsound
tracks, t he DVD player mustbe compatible w iththe
DTS signalasindicated bya DTSlogoon the player's
frontpanel. E arlyDVD players maynot be ableto play
DTS-encoded DVDs. Thisdoesnotindicate a problem
withthe AVR 335, as someplayers cannot p assthe
DTS signalthrough to thedigitaloutputs. I fyouarein
doubtas to thecapability o f yourDVD player to handle
DTS discs, c onsult t he player's owner'smanual.
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