Using Stream Direct; Using Surround Back Channel Processing - Pioneer VSX-9040TXH - 110 Watt x 7 Direct Energy Amplification Receiver Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
• While listening to a source, press
press STEREO to select Front Stage Surround Advance
modes.
• STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for more on
this.
• F.S.SURR FOCUS – Use to provide a rich surround
sound effect directed to the center of where the front
left and right speakers sound projection area
converges.
• F.S.SURR WIDE – Use to provide a surround sound
effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.
FOCUS position
(Recommended)
Front left Front right
speaker
speaker

Using Stream Direct

Use the Stream Direct modes when you want to hear the
truest possible reproduction of a source. All unnecessary
signal processing is bypassed, and you're left with the
pure analog or digital sound source.
AUTO/ALC/
STEREO
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• While listening to a source, press
press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT (AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM
DIRECT) to select the mode you want.
Check the digital format indicators in the front panel
display to see how the source is being processed.
• AUTO SURROUND – See Auto playback on page 56.
• ALC – Listening in Auto level control mode (page 56).
• DIRECT – Sources are heard according to the
settings made in the Surround Setup (speaker
setting, channel level, speaker distance, acoustic
calibration EQ, and X-curve), as well as with dual
mono, the input attenuator, and any sound delay
settings. You will hear sources according to the
number of channels in the signal.
Note
1 When using F.S.SURR WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if the Full Auto MCACC procedure under Advanced MCACC is performed. For
more on this, refer to Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto MCACC) on page 41.
2 When headphones are plugged in, the AUTO SURROUND and DIRECT are cannot be selected.
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• PURE DIRECT – Analog sources are heard without
any digital processing. No sound is output from the
Speaker B in this mode.
Using surround back channel
processing
• Default setting: SBch ON
You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1 or 7.1
decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby
Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you can choose to always use
6.1 or 7.1 decoding (for example, with 5.1 encoded
material). With 5.1 encoded sources, a surround back
channel will be generated, but the material may sound
better in the 5.1 format for which it was originally
encoded (in which case, you can simply switch surround
back channel processing off).
• With a 7.1-channel surround system, audio signals
that have undergone matrix decoding processing
through surround back channel processing to which
the Up Mix function is added are output from the
surround back speakers.
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• Press RECEIVER , then press SBch repeatedly to
cycle the surround back channel options.
Each press cycles through the options as follows:
• SBch ON – Matrix decoding processing for
generating the surround back component from the
surround component is turned on.
• SBch AUTO – Matrix decoding processing for
generating the surround back component from the
surround component is switched automatically.
Matrix decoding processing is only performed when
surround back channel signals are detected in the
input signals.
• SBch OFF – Matrix decoding processing for
generating the surround back component from the
surround component is turned off.
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