Listening To Your System; Choosing The Listening Mode; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-921-K Operating Instructions Manual

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Listening to your system

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Chapter 5:
Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode

This receiver offers a variety of listening modes to
accommodate playback of various audio formats. Choose
one according to your speaker environment or the source.
 While listening to a source, press the listening mode
button repeatedly to select a listening mode you want.
AUTO/ ALC/
DIRECT STEREO STANDARD
AUDIO TUNER EDIT
PARAMETER
TOOLS
DISPLAY BAND TUNER EDIT
AUTO SURROUND/ ALC/ ADVANCED
STREAM DIRECT STANDARD SURR SURROUND
• The listening mode is shown on the display on the front
panel.
Important
• The listening modes and many features described in this
section may not be available depending on the current
source, settings and status of the receiver.
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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.
• Press AUTO/DIRECT 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
• Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded
BD MENU
ADV SURR
accordingly using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx
MOVIE (see Listening in surround sound below for more
MASTER
on these decoding formats).
VOLUME
• When listening to the ADAPTER input, the S.R AIR
feature is selected automatically (see Using the Advanced
surround on page 33 for more on this).
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Listening in surround sound

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RETRIEVER AIR DIRECT CONTROL
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.
• 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 you select STEREO ALC (Auto Level Control stereo
mode), this unit equalizes playback sound levels if each
sound level varies with the music source recorded in a
portable audio player.
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 and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to
stereo.
The following modes provide basic surround sound for stereo
and multichannel sources.
Explanatory notes
No: No connected / Yes: Connected / Two: Two speakers are
connected / –: Whether connected or no
AUTO SURROUND/
AUTO/
STREAM DIRECT
DIRECT
ALC/
ALC/
STANDARD SURR
STANDARD
Type of surround
Suitable sources
modes
Two channel sources
STEREO ALC See above.
DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE Movie
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
b Music
DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC
b
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
DOLBY PLIIx GAME
Video games
DOLBY PLII GAME
c Movie/Music
DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT
d Movie
NEO:6 CINEMA
d Music
NEO:6 MUSIC
DOLBY PRO LOGIC
Old movies
e No additional effects
Straight Decode
f See above.
STEREO
Multichannel sources
STEREO ALC
See above.
DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE
Movie
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
b Music
DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC
b
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
DOLBY DIGITAL EX Movie/Music
DTS-ES Movie/Music
DTS NEO:6 Movie/Music
DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT Movie/Music
e No additional effects
Straight Decode
f See above.
STEREO
– –
a No
Yes
No –
a No
Yes
No –
a No
Yes
No –
No Yes
– –
– –
– –
No –
– –
– –
a No
Two
No –
a No
Two
No –
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
No Yes
– –
– –