Listening To Your System; About The Listening Modes; Auto Listening Mode; Listening In Surround Sound - Pioneer XV-DV333 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. You can select any of
the listening modes regardless of speaker
placement, but you will get the best surround
effect by using the listening modes in
conjunction with your speaker setup:
• Standard surround 5-spot setup – Use
the Standard (Listening in surround sound
on page 11) and Advanced (Using
Advanced Surround on page 12) surround
listening modes with this setup.
• Front surround 3-spot setup – See Using
Front Surround on page 12 for the options
available with this speaker setup.
Make sure you have completed Using the Auto
MCACC setup for optimal surround sound on
page 6. For more setup options, see Using the
System Setup menu on page 22.

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.
SURROUND ADVANCED
CLR
MAIN
• Press SURROUND to select the 'Auto'
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listening mode.
Note
1 Certain features explained in this section may not be possible depending on the source (for example, 88.2 / 96 kHz sources),
or a conflicting system setting. See Error Messages on page 44 for more on this.
2 If the source is Dolby Digital or DTS, the front panel 2 D or DTS indicator lights.
3 When listening in Dolby Digital / DTS mode, two-channel material will automatically be played in surround sound using Dol-
by Pro Logic II decoding.
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Listening in surround sound

You can listen to stereo or multichannel
sources in surround sound. Surround sound is
generated from stereo sources using one of
the Dolby Pro Logic decoding modes.
SURROUND ADVANCED
CLR
MAIN
• Press 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).
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 (see
also Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings
below)
• Stereo – See Listening in stereo on page 13
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