Listening To Your System; Choosing The Listening Mode; Auto Playback; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer Elite VSX-43 Operating Instructions Manual

Chapter
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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.
AUDIO
TOOLS
PARAMETER MENU
• 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.

Auto playback

AUTO SURROUND/
AUTO/
STREAM DIRECT
DIRECT
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 repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND
AUTO/DIRECT
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 accordingly
using NEO:6 CINEMA or DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC (see
Listening in surround sound below for more on these
decoding formats).
• When listening to the ADAPTER input, the S.R AIR feature
is selected automatically (see Using the Advanced surround
on page 35 for more on this).

Listening in surround sound

ALC/
STANDARD
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
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Type of surround
modes
ALC/
STANDARD SURR
Two channel sources
STEREO ALC
DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC
b
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
DOLBY PLIIx GAME
DOLBY PLII GAME
DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT
d
NEO:6 CINEMA
d
NEO:6 MUSIC
DOLBY PRO LOGIC
e
Straight Decode
f
STEREO
Multichannel sources
STEREO ALC
DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE
DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC
DOLBY DIGITAL EX
DTS-ES
DTS NEO:6
DOLBY PLIIz HEIGHT
Straight Decode e
f
STEREO
Suitable sources
See above. – –
Movie No
a
Yes
No –
Music No
b Yes a
No –
Video games No
a
Yes
No –
Movie/Music No Yes
c
Movie – –
Music – –
Old movies – –
No additional effects No –
See above. – –
See above. – –
Movie Two No
Music Yes No
b
Movie/Music Yes No
Movie/Music Yes No
Movie/Music Yes No
Movie/Music No Yes
No additional effects – –
See above. – –
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