Digital Audio Playback - Harman Kardon AVR 135 Owner's Manual

OPERATION
gramsbearing t helogoof oneof themqorsurrouad
encoding piccolos, suchasDolbySu@und or DTS
Stereo, m aybeplayed ineift_er the Do/by Digital, Do]by
ProLogicIICinema. DTSNED:6 Cir,emu, or Logic7
Cbema surround modes depending o n thesource
material,
NOTE: O nce a program hasbeeqencoded w ithmatdx
surround inlormallon, it retains t he surround information
aslongasthe program isbroadcast instereo. Thus,
movies w ithsurround sound maybedecoded viaanyot
the analog surround modes suc, h asDolbyProL%(cII
Cinema, L ogic7 Cinema or DTSNee:6Cinema, when
theyarebroadcast v_a cony'or@hal 1Msht_ons, {>_ble,
payTf andsal@te hansmission, Iriad@on, a growing
number o f n]ade4uFtelevision programs, sports broad
casts, r adio dramas andmusic CDsa_ alsorecorded in
surround sound.
Even when a program is not/isled ascarrying leten
tional s urround intoFnallon, youmayfindf_atthe Dolby
ProLogicII,Logic7 Enhanced or DTSNED:6, VMAx
a/8 theHallorTheater r hodes otten deliver e nvek>ping
surrour/d p resenta%ns through the useof thenatural
inlermetion p resent i nallstereo recon]ings,
Surround modes maybe changed at at_y time by
using eilher the front pane[ orremote oonlmL A ny
char_ges madeto the surround modewinberetdned
inthe£,TR's rnenu, e venaftertheAVRis placedin
Standby rnode, T oselecta ne,_v surround modefrom
the flontpauel, f iat pressthe SurroundMode Group
SelectorSutton J_ untila modefrarnthedesired
majorsurround modegroupsuchas Dolby, D TSor
Logic7 is seleded Next,pressthe SurroundMoee
SelectorButton _ to choose thespecific individual
surrour/d n-lode,
Toselecta surround modeusingthe remote, press
the [sutton forthe major s urround modegroupthat
includes themodeyouwishto choose flora:Day
_. DTS Surround_), DTS NED:6_i@_,
Logic 7 _.t, Stereo 0 or DSPSurround
Thefirstpressof the bunion will s howthecurrent
modefromthatgroup. T ocyclethroughdieavailable
modesinthatgroup,pressthebuttonagainur_til the
desired modeappears inthe Lower DisptayLine
_, the on-screen display andin theSurround
Mode Indicators _]
Asthe surround modeschange, t hechoicewillbe
displayed
in theon screen display, in the Lower
DisplayLine _ arid i n the SurroundMode
indicators_]j,
TheBolbyDigital, D olbyDigital E Xa_idDTS51,
DTSESMathx andDTSESDiscrete modesmayonly
beselected whena digilal i nputis inuse,Inaddition,
whena digital s ource is present, t heAVR135 will
automatically select a ndswitchte thecorrectmode,
regardless o f themodethathasbeenprev)ous)y
selectedFurmoreintormal_on or_ seled_ng dig_tul
scones, s eethe Digital AudioPlayback s ection below
'v_hen the 6 channeYS channel directinputsarein
usethere(s_o surround puscessi%, astheseinputs
takethe analog outputsignals froman optional, e xter
nalDVDAudioor SACD p%,er, o r another s oume
device andcarrythemstraight t hrough to thevolume
control w ithoutanytudherdigihlprooesqng
Talisten to a program intraditional two-channel steaD,
usingthelrontlullandtrent@hispeakers o nly(plus
thesubwoofer, if installed andconfigured}, pressthe
StereoButton@ untilSURR OFF appears inthe
LowerDisplayLine _, or press theSurround Mode
GroupSelector_ until t heStereo modes appear i n
theon-screen display andLower DisplayUne
Next, p re_ theSurroundMode SelectButton
untilSUR ROU N1) 0 F F appears ir theon screen
display andLower DisplayLine_,
Digital Audio Playback
Digital audiois a mqeradvancemerlt overolder analog
surround processing systems s uch as Dolby ProLogic.
It delivers f ived)scmte c henne)s/ell fiont,cente/, r ight
frar_l, leftsurround a ndrightsurreund. E_}r;h channel
reproduces tufffrequency r ange(20Hz to 20kHz) a nd
offers dramatically Jmpreved dy_micrange andsV_ifi
oar_improvements to signal to noise ratios, I naddition,
diclFa( systems h ave the capability tedarer anadditional
channel thatJsspeclfJ@JJy devoted k; Iow-trequcncy
inlormatior_ Thisis the",1"channel rderred to whenyou
seethesesystems d escribed a s"51 i' "6.1"or "71 ",
Thebas,s c hannel isseparate t romtheofl_er c banneln,
butsince it isintentionally bandwidft>limited, sound
designers h avegiven it thatunique designation
DotbyDigital
Dolby Digital isa standard p artof E)VE), andi8available
onspecMyencoded L Ddiscs andsatellite b roadc>_sts
andit is a paf ofthe highd@itiontelevison (HE}W)
system
Anoptional, external R Fdemodulator is required to
usetheAVRt 35 to listen to the DolbyDigital s ound
tracks asilable on laserdiscs. C onnect t he RFoutput
of theLDplayer to the demodulator andthenconnect
thedigitaloutputof thedemodulator to the Opticalor
Coaxial_nputs_]_@_ of tneR,!S135 No
demodulator is required forusewithDVDplayera or
DTS-enooded laserdiscs
DTS
DTSis another d igital a udiosystemthati8capable of
de)ivenng 5 1 or B 1 discrete or malnxsoundfield
reprodudion, £tbo%h bothDTSaridDolbyDigital a e
digital, t heyusediflerent m ethods of or:coding thesig
hale, a ndthustheyrequire different d ecoding circuits
to convert t he digital s ignals backto analog.
DTS-encoded soundtraoks am aw:flabb on selectDVD
andLDdiscs, a swellas on special audioonlyDTS
discsYoumayuseanyLDor CDpla/erequipped
witha digit£1 o utputh playOTS-encoded discswith
theAVR/ 35 Allthatis required is to connect t he
player's outputb eitheranOptical or CoaxialInput
on the rearpanel @ _ or frontpanel_
In orderto Btento DVDs encoded withDTSsound
track,% lheDVDplayer mustbe compatbbwiththe
DTSsignal a sindicated bya DTSlogoo/_the phyer's
frontpar:el, E arlyDVD players maynotbe ableto pray
DTSercodedDVDsThisdoesnot indicate a problem
withthe AVR135, assomeplayers cannot p assthe
D:S signal through to the digital o utputs. I1you8e in
doubtas to d_e eapab@of yourDVDplayer to bar/die
DTSdiscs, c onsultthephyer'sowner's manual,
IMPORTANT N OTE: M anyDVDplayers havea ddault
settingthatdoesnot passthrough the DT8data, e ven
thoughthe maehine iscapable of doingso Ifyour
DVD playerhasthe "DTS Digital O ut"logobut does
nottriggerDTSplayback i l_the £1S135, cbar/{_e the
player's s ettings inthe "Audio" o r "Bitstmam" oonfigu
ratron menuso tfat DTSphybackisenabledThe
method fordoingthiswJJJ varywJheachphye£In
somecases, t he propermenuchoice vdllbe "Original,"
whfb inothera it will be"DTS," C onsult the owner's
manual f oryourplayer to findthespecific inDnT,at_on
to find1heproper s etting.
Selectinga DigitalSource
Toutilizeeither d igitalmode,youmusthaveproperly
connected a digital s oumet<_ theAVR135 Con:_eot
thedigitaloutputs fromDVDplayera, HDTV receivers,
satellite systems o r CDplayers to the Opticalor
CoaxialInputs _]_@_'_, kl order to provide a
backup sighal anda source %ranal%stereo recordi%,
theanalog outpuSprovided o n digital source equipment
should alsobeconnected t o ttefrapprapnate inpuSon
the£R 135 rearpanel ( eg,,connect t he anaogslereo
audiooutput _ oma DVD to theOVDAudioInputs
on therearpanel w henyeucor_nect _e source's
diuital o utputs).
Ifyou havenot already c onfigured an inputtot a digital
sourceusing the on screenmenus asshown off page
16, firstselect t he inputusing _heremote or front
panel c ontrols asoutlined inthismanual N ext,select
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