Using The Advanced Surround Effects; Listening In Stereo - Pioneer HTP-700 Operating Instructions Manual

07 Listening to your system
• While listening to a source, press
STANDARD.
If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby
Surround encoded, the proper decoding
format will automatically be selected and
shows in the display.
With two channel sources, you can select from:
• DOLBY PLII MOVIE – Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited to movie sources
• DOLBY PLII MUSIC
sound, especially suited to music sources
• DOLBY PLII GAME – Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited for video games
• NEO:6 CINEMA – Up to 5.1 channel sound,
especially suited to movie sources
• NEO:6 MUSIC – Up to 5.1 channel sound,
especially suited to music sources
• DOLBY PRO LOGIC – 4.1 channel
surround sound

Using the Advanced surround effects

The Advanced surround feature creates a
variety of surround effects. Try different modes
with various soundtracks to see which you like.
• Press ADV SURR repeatedly to select a
listening mode.
• ACTION – Designed for action movies with
dynamic soundtracks.
• DRAMA – Designed for movies with lots of
dialog.
• ENT.SHOW – Suitable for musical sources.
• ADVANCED GAME – Suitable for video
games.
• SPORTS – Suitable for sports programs.
Note
1 When listening to 2-channel sources in DOLBY PLII MUSIC mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust:
C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM.. See Setting the Audio options on page 63 to adjust them.
2 When listening to 2-channel sources in NEO:6 CINEMA or NEO:6 MUSIC mode, you can also adjust the C.IMG effect
(see Setting the Audio options on page 63).
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– Up to 5.1 channel
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• 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.

Listening in stereo

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.
In the Auto level control stereo mode (A.L.C.),
this unit equalizes playback sound levels if
each sound level varies with the music source
recorded in a portable audio player.
• While listening to a source, press
STEREO/A.L.C. for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
• STEREO – The audio is heard with your
surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, Phase Control, Sound
Retriever and Tone functions.
• A.L.C. – Listening in Auto level control
stereo mode.
• F.S.S.ADVANCE – See Using Front Stage
Surround Advance on page 59 for more on
this.