Using Front Stage Surround Advance; Using Stream Direct - Pioneer VSX-1020-K Operating Insructions

06 Listening to your system
Using Front Stage Surround
Advance
The Front Stage Surround Advance function
allows you to create natural surround sound
effects using just the front speakers and the
subwoofer.
• While listening to a source, press
RECEIVER
, then press STEREO to select Front
Stage Surround Advance modes.
• STEREO – See Listening in stereo on
page 59 for more on this.
• F.S.SURR FOCUS – Use to provide a rich
surround sound effect directed to the
center of where the front left and right
speakers sound projection area converges.
• F.S.SURR WIDE – Use to provide a
surround sound effect to a wider area than
FOCUS mode.
FOCUS position
(Recommended)
Front left Front right
speaker
speaker
Note
1 When using F.S.SURR WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if the Full Auto MCACC procedure under Advanced
MCACC is performed. For more on this, refer to Automatically conducting optimum sound tuning (Auto MCACC) on
page 39.
2 When headphones are plugged in, the AUTO SURROUND and DIRECT are cannot be selected.
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WIDE position
Front right
Front left
speaker speaker

Using Stream Direct

Use the Stream Direct modes when you want
to hear the truest possible reproduction of a
source. All unnecessary signal processing is
bypassed, and you're left with the pure analog
or digital sound source.
• While listening to a source, press
, then press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT to
RECEIVER
select the mode you want.
Check the digital format indicators in the front
panel display to see how the source is being
processed.
• AUTO SURROUND – See Auto playback on
page 57.
• ALC – Listening in Auto level control mode
(page 57).
• DIRECT – Plays back sound from the
source with the least modification next to
PURE DIRECT. With DIRECT, the only
modifications added to PURE DIRECT
playback are calibration of the sound field
by the MCACC system and the Phase
Control effect.
• PURE DIRECT – Plays back unmodified
sound from source with only minimal
digital treatment. No sound is output from
the Speaker B in this mode.
Tip
• When an ALC mode is selected, the effect
level can be adjusted using the EFFECT
parameter in Setting the Audio options on
page 68.
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