Listening To Your System; About The Listening Modes; Auto Listening Mode; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer XV-DV232 Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system

Chapter 2
Listening to your system

About the listening modes

As explained in Home theater sound setup on
page 6, there are two basic surround speaker
setup options available with any of the listening
modes:
• Standard surround 5-spot setup – Use
any of the surround listening modes with
this setup (except Front Surround).
• Front surround 3-spot setup – Make sure
the Front Surround mode is switched on
before selecting a surround listening mode
(see Using Front Surround on page 11).

Auto listening mode

The Auto listening mode is the simplest way to
listen to any source as it was mastered: the
output from the speakers mirrors the channels
in the source material.
CLEAR
SHIFT
• Press SHIFT+SURROUND to select the
AUTO listening mode.

Listening in surround sound

You can listen to stereo or multichannel
sources in surround sound.
is generated from stereo sources using one of
the Dolby Pro Logic decoding modes.
CLEAR
SHIFT
Note
1 If the source is Dolby Digital or DTS, the front panel 2 D or DTS indicator lights.
2 • Note that the input source must be switched to DVD/CD for multichannel playback.
• If you're planning on recording a multichannel source, refer to Recording mode on page 27.
3 When listening in DOLBY DIGITAL / DTS mode, two-channel material will automatically be played in surround sound using
Dolby Pro Logic II decoding.
SLEEP DISPLAY
SURROUND FRONT
SURROUND
1
2
Surround sound
SLEEP DISPLAY
SURROUND FRONT
SURROUND
• Press SHIFT+SURROUND repeatedly to
select a listening mode.
The choices that appear in the display will vary
according to the type of source that's playing.
• AUTO – Auto listening mode (see above)
• DOLBY DIGITAL / DTS – Dolby Digital or
DTS decoding (depending on the source).
For a multichannel source, this will be the
same as AUTO.
• PROLOGIC – 4.1 channel surround sound
for use with any two-channel source
• MOVIE – Pro Logic II 5.1 channel surround
sound, especially suited to movie sources
(use with any two-channel source)
• MUSIC – Pro Logic II 5.1 channel surround
sound, especially suited to music sources,
for use with any two-channel source
• STEREO – See Listening in stereo below

Using Front Surround

The Front Surround mode is effective when you
are using the Front surround 3-spot speaker
setup as described in Home theater sound
setup on page 6. The surround speakers
should be placed on top of the front speakers
and oriented towards the walls (see the Speaker
Setup Guide) and DVD/CD must be selected as
2
the input source.
CLEAR
SHIFT
1
SLEEP DISPLAY
SURROUND FRONT
SURROUND
02
3
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