Using The Surround Back Channel; Sb Ch - Pioneer VSX-D714 Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system
Using the Surround Back
Channel (SB CH)
• Default setting: SB ON (VSX-D814), SB
OFF (VSX-D714)
You can use automatic 6.1 decoding for 6.1
encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital
EX or DTS-ES), or you can choose to always
use 6.1 decoding with other sources (for
example, 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1
encoded sources, a surround back channel
will be generated, but the material may sound
better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi-
nally encoded, in which case you can simply
switch the surround back channel off. The
table below indicates when you will hear the
surround back channel.
• Press SB CH MODE (front panel)
repeatedly to cycle the surround back
channel options.
Each press cycles through the options as
follows:
Type of source
DTS-ES/Dolby Digital
Matrix encoded
multi-channel sources
with 6.1 surround
Dolby Digital/DTS
encoded multi-channel
sources
Dolby Digital/DTS
encoded stereo sources,
Stereo sources
Analog 2-channel
(stereo) source

SB CH

STANDARD
MODE
decoding
ON
AUTO
ON
AUTO
ON
AUTO
ON
AUTO
• SB CH AUTO – Automatically switches to
6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)
• SB CH ON – 6.1 encoding is always used
(for example, on 5.1 encoded material)
• SB CH OFF – Surround back channel is
switched off
• You can't use the surround back channel
with headphones, the STEREO / DIRECT
mode, or if the Surround back speaker
setting on page 43 is set to SB
D814 only) SB SW.
• You can't hear the surround back channel
with DTS 96kHz/24 bit sources.
STANDARD
PRO LOGIC IIx
NEO:6 CINEMA/
MOVIE/MUSIC NEO:6 MUSIC
(Dolby Digital)
or (VSX-
ADVANCED SURROUND
All modes
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