Listening to your system 06, Choosing the input signal, Sing surround back channel processing – Pioneer 516-S/-K Manuale d'uso

Pagina 28: Using virtual surround back (vsb)

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Listening to your system

06

28

En

F. ALIGN

– All speakers are heard in

accordance with the front speaker
settings.

CUSTOM 1/2

– Custom settings

EQ OFF

– Switches Acoustic Calibration

EQ off.

The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights

when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.

1

Choosing the input signal

• Default setting:

AUTO

You need to hook up a component to both
analog and digital inputs on the rear of the

receiver to select between input signals.

2

Press

SIGNAL SELECT

(front panel) to

select the input signal corresponding to the
source component.

Each press cycles through the following:

AUTO

– This automatically switches to

DIGITAL

if a digital source is detected,

otherwise it remains on

ANALOG

.

ANALOG

– Selects the analog inputs.

DIGITAL

– Selects the digital input.

When set to

DIGITAL

or

AUTO

,

2

DIGITAL

lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and

DTS

lights when a DTS signal is input.

U

sing surround back channel

processing

VSX-516 model only

• Default setting:

SB ON

You can have the receiver automatically use 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 (for
example, with 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 surround back processing off).

3

The table below indicates when you will hear
the surround back channel (

ì

=Sound plays

through surround back speaker).

Press

SB ch

(

SB ch PROCESSING

) to select

a surround back channel option.

Each press cycles through the following:

SB ON

– 6.1 decoding is always used (for

example, a surround back channel will be
generated for 5.1 encoded material)

SB AUTO

– Automatically switches to 6.1

decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for
example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)

SB OFF

– Maximum 5.1 playback

Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB)

When you’re not using surround back speaker,
selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual
surround back channel through your surround
speakers. You can choose to listen to sources

Note

1 • You can’t use Acoustic Calibration EQ with

DVD 5.1ch

or WMA9 Pro, and it has no effect when headphones are connected.

• If you switch on Acoustic Calibration EQ when

DIRECT

is selected, the receiver automatically switches to

STEREO

.

2 • This receiver can only playback Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other
digital signal formats, set to

ANALOG

.

• You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make

the proper digital connections (page 11) and set the signal input to

DIGITAL

.

• Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.

3 • You can’t use the surround back channel with headphones, the

STEREO

/

DIRECT

mode, or if the surround back speaker is

set to

NO

in

Speaker setting

on page 35.

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