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Listening to your system

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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/A.L.C. to select Front Stage Surround
Advance modes.

STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for more on
this.

A.L.C. – See Listening in stereo above 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.

1

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 (see

Stream direct

with different input signal formats on page 96).

1

While listening to a source, press RECEIVER, then

press AUTO/DIRECT (AUTO SURR/STREAM DIRECT) to
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 30.

DIRECT – Sources are heard according to the
settings made in the Surround Setup (speaker
setting, channel level, speaker distance, acoustic
calibration EQ, and X-curve), as well as with dual
mono, the input attenuator, any sound delay and hi-
bit settings. You will hear sources according to the
number of channels in the signal.

PURE DIRECT – Analog and PCM sources are heard

without any digital processing.

2

No sound is output

from the Second Zone in this mode.

Selecting MCACC presets

• Default setting:

MEMORY 1

If you have calibrated your system for different listening

positions

3

, you can switch between settings to suit the

kind of source you’re listening to and where you’re sitting
(for example, watching movies from a sofa, or playing a
video game close to the TV).

Note

1 When using

F.S.SURR WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if Auto MCACC Setup is performed. See Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto

MCACC) on page 10 for more on this.

AUTO/

DIRECT

THX

STATUS

PHASE

TV CTRL

HDD

STEREO/

A.L.C.

DVD

STANDARD

BD MENU

ADV SURR

ANT

AUDIO

DISPLAY

MPX

SIGNAL SEL

CH

RECEIVER

MEM

STEREO/

A.L.C.

DVD

RECEIVER

FOCUS position

(Recommended)

WIDE position

Front left

speaker

Front right

speaker

Front left

speaker

Front right

speaker

2 There are cases where a brief noise is heard before playback of sources other than PCM. Please select

AUTO SURROUND or DIRECT if this is a problem.

3 Different presets might also have separate calibration settings for the same listening position, depending on how you’re using your system. These presets
can be set in

Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto MCACC) on page 10 or Automatic MCACC (Expert) on page 38, either of which you should

have already completed.

AUTO/

DIRECT

THX

STATUS

PHASE

TV CTRL

HDD

STEREO/

A.L.C.

DVD

STANDARD

BD MENU

ADV SURR

ANT

AUDIO

DISPLAY

MPX

SIGNAL SEL

CH

RECEIVER

MEM

RECEIVER

AUTO/

DIRECT

HDD

DIMMER

1

2

3

SLEEP

MCACC

INPUT

SELECT

GENRE

4

5

6

A.ATT

SBch

SR+

7

8

9

CLASS

CH LEVEL

D.ACCESS

0

ENTER

MCACC

5

TV CTRL

MAIN

ZONE 2

ANT

AUDIO

DISPLAY

MPX

SIGNAL SEL

CH

RECEIVER

MEM

RECEIVER

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