Using Front Stage Surround Advance; Listening In Stereo; Genre Sync Mode; Using The Sound Retriever - Pioneer HTS-LX70 Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
• Ent.Show – Suitable for musical sources
• Expanded – Creates an extra wide stereo field
• TV Surround – Provides surround sound for both
mono and stereo TV sources
• Advanced Game – Suitable for video games
• Sports – Suitable for sports programs
• Classical – Gives a large concert hall-type sound
• Rock/Pop – Creates a live concert sound for rock
and/or pop music
• Unplugged – Suitable for acoustic music sources
• Ext.Stereo – Gives multichannel sound to a stereo
source, using all of your speakers

Using Front Stage Surround Advance

The Front Stage Surround Advance modes are effective
when you are using the Front surround speaker setup as
described on page 8.
F.S.
• Press to select a Front Stage Surround
SURR
Advance mode.
The F.S.SURR indicator lights.
Press repeatedly to select Focus 5.1ch, Wide 5.1ch or
Extra Power. You cannot select a mode other than Extra
Power for some audio streams.
• Focus 5.1ch – Use to provide a rich surround sound
effect directed to the center area where the left and
right speakers sound projection converges.
• Wide 5.1ch – Use to provide a surround sound effect
to a wider area than Focus 5.1ch mode.
• Extra Power – Outputs stereo sound (in the case of
multi-channel sources, down-mixed stereo sound)
from the surround speakers for powerful stereo effect.

Listening in stereo

You can listen to any source — stereo or multichannel —
in stereo. When playing a multichannel source, all
channels are downmixed to the front left/right speakers
and the subwoofer.
SURR
• Press repeatedly until STEREO shows in the
display.
Note
1 You cannot use this function for the following audio streams:
• Dolby TrueHD: over 88.2 kHz
• DTS-HD: over 88.2 kHz or with the channel format of 2/0
• DTS-Express: with the channel format of 2/0
2 This setting cannot be used with multichannel sources. Also, in case of SACD, DTS-HD, DTS-Express, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and
PCM (192 kHz/176.4 kHz), even stereo sources cannot be used.
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Genre Sync Mode

Only when you have this unit connected to an HDMI
Control-compatible Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder and are
using the HDMI Control function, you can make use of
the Genre Sync Mode to have the listening mode
automatically change to that which best matches the
genre of the contents playing from the recorder.
• Set the HDMI Mode to AMP Mode (page 45).
GENRE
• Press when listening to media contents
from a recorder.
The most appropriate listening mode is selected and
shown in the display. When the related genre could not
be determined, No Genre or Can't use may be displayed
and the listening mode remains unchanged.
Tip
• Mainly used with Jukebox and MP3 sources.
• To use this function, you must have an HDMI Control-
compatible Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder connected via
HDMI, and have the HDMI Control function set to On.

Using the Sound Retriever

When audio data is removed during the MP3 or WMA
compression process, sound quality often suffers from
an uneven sound image. The Sound Retriever feature
employs new DSP technology that helps bring CD quality
sound back to compressed two channel audio by
restoring sound pressure and smoothing jagged artifacts
left over after compression.
SOUND
• Press while listening to a stereo source
RTRV
Press repeatedly to switch between:
• Retriever On — Switches the Sound Retriever on.
• Retriever Off — Switches the Sound Retriever off.
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