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Sound field programs, Selecting sound field programs, Elements of a sound field – Yamaha RX-N600D User Manual

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SOUND FIELD PROGRAMS

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What really creates the rich, full tones of a live instrument are the multiple reflections from the walls of the room. In
addition to making the sound live, these reflections enable us to tell where the player is situated as well as the size and
shape of the room in which we are sitting.

Elements of a sound field

There are two distinct types of sound reflections that combine to make up the sound field in addition to the direct sound
coming straight to our ears from the player’s instrument.

Early reflections
Reflected sounds reach our ears extremely rapidly (50 ms to 100 ms after the direct sound), after reflecting from one
surface only (for example, from a wall or the ceiling). Early reflections actually add clarity to the direct sound.

Reverberations
These are caused by reflections from more than one surface (for example, from the walls, and the ceiling) so numerous
that they merge together to form a continuous sonic afterglow. They are non-directional and lessen the clarity of the direct
sound.

Direct sound, early reflections and subsequent reverberations taken together help us to determine the subjective size and
shape of the room, and it is this information that the digital sound field processor reproduces in order to create sound
fields.

If you could create the appropriate early reflections and subsequent reverberations in your listening room, you would be
able to create your own listening environment. The acoustics in your room could be changed to those of a concert hall, a
dance floor, or a room with virtually any size at all. This ability to create sound fields at will is exactly what YAMAHA
has done with the digital sound field processor.

• Choose a sound field program based on your listening preference, not merely on the name of the program.
• When you select an input source, this unit automatically selects the last sound field program used with the corresponding input source.
• Sound field programs cannot be selected when the component connected to the MULTI CH INPUT jacks is selected as the input

source (see page 38).

• Sampling frequencies higher than 48 kHz (except for DTS 96/24 signals) are sampled down to 48 kHz and then sound field programs

are applied.

Front panel operations

Rotate the PROGRAM selector on the front panel.
The name of the selected sound field program appears in
the front panel display and in the OSD.

Remote control operations

Set the component selector switch to AMP and
then press one of the sound field program
selector buttons on the remote control
repeatedly.
The name of the selected sound field program appears in
the front panel display and in the OSD.

SOUND FIELD PROGRAMS

Selecting sound field programs

Notes

ZONE 2
ON/OFF

ZONE

CONTROL

EFFECT

PROGRAM

INPUT MODE

TONE CONTROL

STRAIGHT

SPEAKERS

PHONES

MAIN ZONE

MASTER

SILENT CINEMA

B

A

MULTI CH

INPUT

VOLUME

INPUT

ON

OFF

ON/OFF

VIDEO

L AUDIO R

USB

VIDEO AUX

DISPLAY

NEXT

DAB

SEARCH MODE

MEMORY

MAN'L/AUTO FM

FM/AM

PRESET/TUNING

EDIT

A/B/C/D/E

l PRESET/TUNING h

TUNING MODE

AUTO/MAN'L

LEVEL

PROGRAM selector

TV MUTE

TV INPUT

MUTE

AMP

SOURCE

TV

PRESET/CH

STEREO

1

EFFECT

VOLUME

TV VOL

TV CH

STANDARD

5

SPEAKERS

9

MUSIC

2

SELECT

6

ENHANCER

0

ENTERTAIN

3

EXTD SUR.

7

NIGHT

10

MOVIE

4

DIRECT ST.

8

STRAIGHT

ENT.

AMP

Sound field program
selector buttons