Operation; Surround Mode Selection - Harman Kardon AVR 235 Owner's Manual

OPERATION
Forprivate listening, plugthe 1/4" stereophone
pl% l_orn a pairof stereoheadphones (ritethe
front-panel HeadphoneJack E[_ When the
headphone p lug;sconnected, all speakers w ill be
silenced andD0 L B Y H : BP will scroll o nce
acn?ss t he LowerDispiayLine _, indicaling that
the headphone o utputis inthe Bypass m ode,and
te conlirmthatno processing i s beingused. W hen
the headphone p lugis removed, theaudiofeed
to tilespeakers w illbe restored
• Whenthe headphones areJnuse, y ou mayIake
advantage o f the Dotby Headohone m odes to briug
addedspaciousness to headphone J istenJng Press
the Do,byMode SelectButton _ or the
SurroundModeGroupSelector[] to cycle
through thethroeDolbyHeadphone m odes and
select t he onethatyou pmte_
Surround Mode Selection
Oneof the mostimpodant f eatures of theAVR235
is itsabilityto reproduce s zfulltr_u/fichanr_el surround
sound fieldtrorndigitul s ources, analog matrix
surround encoded programs andstandard
sterneprograms.
Selection o f a swoundmodeis based on personal
taste, a swellasthetypeof prograrn source material
beinqused. E orexample, ruotfon pfctures o r TV
programs b earirg the logoofoneofthe major s ur
roundencoding processes, suchas} B oibySurround o r
DTSSteleo, m aybe played ineither t heDolbyDigital,
DolbyProLogicIICinema, D olby ProLogicIIxCinema,
DTSNee:6Cinema or Logic7 Cinema surround
modes, d epending o nhe source rnatenal
NOTE: O nce a program hasbeenencoded wJtb matrix
su/round intormation, it ret_]Jns thesurround intumstlon
as1one asthe program isbroadcast instereo, Thus,
movies withsurround souhdmaybedecoded viaanyof
the analog surround modes suchasDolbyProLogicII
Movie, L ogic7 Cinema or DTSNee:6Cinema, when
theyarebroadcast viaconventional TVs_aons, c able,
payTVandsatellite a ansmission, Inaddison, agrowing
number o f madefoplelevision programs, sports broad-
casts, _ adio dramas andmusic CDsarealsorecorded in
surround sound.
Wenwher_ a program is r/oflisted asoar_ing inten-
tional s urround intormation, youmayfindthattheDolby
ProLogic11, Logic7 Enhanced o r [XS Neo:6, Y MAx
andthe Nail o r floater modes oftendeer enveloping
surround p_esentations through 1he useof thenatural
information p reser_t inall stereo recoMings
Sunound modesmaybechanged atanytimeby
usingeither t he frontpanel o r remotecontrolTo
select a newsurround modefrom:he frontpanel, f ir2
pressthe SurroundModeGroupSelectorButton
untilthe desired majorsurround modegroupsuch
asDolby, D TSor Logic7 is selecled. N ext,press_J?e
SurroundModeSelectorButton _ to choose the
specific', individual surround mode
Toselect a surround modeusingtheremote, press
thebutton'or thenqor surround modegroupthat
includes t hemodeyouwishto choose frorr: DoIby
_, OTSSurround_[_, OTSNag:6_, Logic 7
__.i_, S tereo 0 or DSPSurround0 Thefirst
pressof thebuttonwillshowthecurrent m odetrorr
treat g roupif it is already i n use_ o r the firstawJJlab/e
modeif youarecurrently u singanother m odeTocycle
+hro%h t he a',,,aik<b/e modes inthatgroup, p ress the
buttonagainuntilthedesired modeapp_:rsinthe
Lower DisplayLine _, intheon screen display and
infie SurroundMode Indicators
Asthe surround modeschange, the appropriate
SurroundMode Indicator_ will lightto indicate
whichmodehasbeenselected,
TheDolbyDigital, D olbyDigital E X andDTS51,
DTSESWiatrix a ndDTSESDiscrete modesmayonly
be selected whena digitulinputis inuse inaddition,
whena digitalsource is present, t heAVR235 wJJ]
automabcaJly select a ndswitch tu the correct m ode,
regardless of the modethathasbeenpreviously
selected, r br moreir%tmation o hselects% digital
sources, seethe Digitul AudioPlayback s ection below,
TheDolbyProLogicIIxmodesareavailabb only
whenthe AVR285 hasbeenconfigured f or 6 1/7 1
ope_allon b y configuring t heSurround BackspeakeTs
aseither"Large" o r "Small" a sdescribed o n page21
Thesemodesprovk_e a matrixed 6 1 _channel presen
rationof analog sourcesSeepage27 formorninfor
-_atioY_
Whenthe 6 channel/S<',hannel directinpulsarein
usetbereis riosurround processing, estheseinputs
takethe analog outputsignals frornan optional, exter
nalDVDAudioor SAC[}playec or anotber s ource
device andcarry themstraight t hrough to ?e volume
control w ithout a ry furtherdigiblprocessing
% lister_ t o a program inl_adifional twochannel stereo,
using the trentIdt andfrontrightspeakers o nly(plus
thesubwoofer, if installed andconfigured), pressthe
StereoButton@ until S URR OFF appears i nthe
LowerDisplayLine_, orp_ess t heSurround Mode
GroupSelector_ unfil t heStereo modesappear i n
he on screen display andLower DisplayLine
HexL press', the SurroundModeSeiec, t Button
untilS URR 0 UN D 0 F F appears inthe on screen
disp%, e ndLowerDisplayLine _ The%rround
Offmodeprovides a nanalog bypass ofhe digbl pro
ceasing, including bassmanagement, Scroll u ntil
SURROUND
OFF DSP appears i f yoursqufle
bass man%anent u suallyusedwhen the sys(em
bcludesasepat_ste subwodeu
Digital Audio PJayback
Digital audioisa major a dvancement overolder analog
surround p rocessing systems s ueh asDolbyPro(ogie
Itdelivers f ive(orsixasofthiswriting) discrete channels:
14tent, center, r'gl't%nt, leftsu-oundaridright s u/-
round (orbacksurround, if it is a6.1-channel lormab
Each channel r@roduces tellfrequency fargo(2BBz !e
20kHz) a ndoffers dramallcally improved d ynamic r ange
andsgniflcant improvements tu eigml-tonoiseratios. In
addition, di{/ital s ystems h ave the capability toderiver a n
additional c, h anr/el thatis speo@ally devoted fi?lowtre
quene',/intormution Thisisthe",1"ohar_r_el/atoned to
whenyouseethese systems d escribed a s"51,""6 1"
er"7 1:' T hebass chant _el is sepaTate t_orn the other
channels, butsince it is inten17onafly bandwidth l imited,
sound designers h avegiven it thatunique desi%aton
DolbyDigRal
Dolby DigitaJ isa sla_dan] pdt of DVD, endisavail
able on spatially encoded L Ddiscs andsatellite b road
casts and_t i s apa_t d thehigh@flnitio_ t elevision
{HDTV) system
An optional, external f iF demodulator is required to
usethe AVR235 to listen to the DolbyDigital s ound
tracks available on laserdiscsConnect t he REoutput
of Xe LDplayer to the demodulator andthenconnect
thedigital o utputof the demodulator to theOptical or
Ooaxial I nputs [_]_ of theAVR235 No
demodulator isrequired for usewitr,bVDplayers or
DTSencoded laserdiscs.
DTS
DTSis another d JgJtaJ audiosystemthatis capable of
delivering 5 .1 or 61 discrete or matrix sound field
reproduction. Although bothDTSandDoJby D JgJXJ are
digital, t heyusedifferent m ethods of encodint Ithe sig-
nals, a ndthusthey require different @ coding circuits
to convert t he digital s ignals backto analog
DTSencoded soundl_acks areavailable o n soled DVD
andLDdiscs, a swellas onspecial a udioonlyDTS
discs. Y oumayuseanyLDor CDplayer equipped
witha digital o utputto playDTSencoded discswith
theAVR235. Allthatisrequired is to connect t he
player's outputto eitheranOptBa! or Coa×ial I nput
on the rearpanel _ or frontpanel_]_
fl] order to fisten to DVDs encoded withDTSsound
tracks, t he DVDplayer mustbe compatible w iththe
DTSsiclnal as ffdicated by a DTSlogoon fheplayer's
frontpanelEarlyDVDplayeTs maynotbe ableto play
t)TS encoded BVBe. T Nsdoesnot indicate e pmbler_:
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