About Home Theater; Enjoying Home Theater - Integra DTR-6.4/5.4 Instructional Manual

About Home Theater

Enjoying Home Theater

The DTR-6.4/5.4 has many excellent features to recreate clear three-dimensional sound image and lively sound movement. This enables you
to easily enjoy rich sound effects just like you were in a theater or concert hall at home.
For the DTR-6.4, Integra recommends you to use the THX-certified THX speaker system for THX Surround EX playback.
When playing DVD software, you can enjoy sound effects provided by DTS, Dolby Digital or THX (DTR-6.4 only) depending on recording
formats. In addition, you can enjoy Integra's proprietary DSP surround playback for TV or satellite broadcast.
How to use speakers
When you have two speakers, they are used for front left and right speakers. (2-channel playback)
When you have three speakers, they are used for front left, front right and center speakers. (3-channel surround playback)
When you have four speakers, they are used for front left, front right, surround left and surround right speakers. (4-channel surround
playback)
When you have five speakers, they are used for front left, front right, center, surround left and surround right speakers. (5-channel surround
playback)
When you have six speakers, they are used for front left, front right, center, surround left, surround right and surround back speakers. (6-
channel surround playback)
(For DTR-6.4 only)
When you have seven speakers and use a power amplifier connected to the PRE OUT terminals on the DTR-6.4, the speakers are used for
front left, front right, center, surround left, surround right, surround back left and surround back right speakers. (7-channel surround
playback)
No matter how many speakers you use, subwoofer can be used to produce powerful and heavy bass sound. (0.1-channel playback)
Center speaker
Complements the sound effect
from front left and right speakers
to enrich and clear the sound
image and movement. In movies,
actor's speech mainly comes out
from the center speaker.
Place the center speaker as close
as possible to the TV or monitor,
pointing toward listener's ears.
Also keep the center speaker's
height as same level as possible to
front left and right speakers.
Subwoofer
Outputs only bass sound to
enhance and complement bass
sound effect. Place the subwoofer
at either front corner of the room
or at 1/3 position from either front
corner of the room.
• For optimum surround playback, you need to set the distance between the listener and speakers so that the time the sound from speakers
reach the listener is constant. Also you need to set the speaker volume level individually for balancing the volume level between speakers.
(See pages 52 and 53.)
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Front left and right speakers
Output overall sound. They play most important role for home theater
system, creating basic sound image and field.
Place the front speakers in front of the listener so that they point to
listener's ears in listening position for music and movies. Ideal
speaker placement is that they are located symmetrically.
Surround left and right speakers
Enhance the live presence. They represent the
three-dimensional sound movement with sound
effects. Place the surround speakers at the side
of the listener or at the diagonal position from
the listener. Ideal speaker placement is that they
are located symmetrically.
Surround back speaker
Enhance the sound space representation
with surround channel
recreating sound movement effect and
sound field in the back of the listener
more real.
For DTR-6.4 users:
When you use two surround back
speakers, you need to connect external
stereo amplifier to the PRE OUT
terminals on the DTR-6.4.
signal,