Sony STR-DE545 - Manual (Page 31)

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Enjoying Surr
ound Sound
PRO LOGIC D.RANGE MONO TA NEWS NEWS INFO INFO STEREO OPT
LS S RS
L C R
MEMORY
L F E
DIGITAL a dts a COAX
1 2 3
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Understanding the Multi-Channel Surround Displays
1 ; DIGITAL
This indicator lights up when a sound field other than
2 CHANNEL is selected and the receiver is decoding
signals recorded in the Dolby Digital (AC-3) format.*
* However, this indicator does not light when the recording format
is 2/0 or 2/0 PRO LOGIC.
2 PRO LOGIC
Lights up when the receiver applies Pro Logic
processing to two channel signals in order to output
the center and surround channel signals.**
** However, this indicator does not light if the center and rear
speakers are set to “NO”, or the SPEAKER button is set to OFF
and the A.F.D. or NORMAL SURROUND sound fields are
selected.
3 OPT
Lights up when the source signal is a digital signal
being input through the OPT terminal.
4 COAX
Lights up when the source signal is a digital signal
being input through the COAX terminal.
5 ;
Lights up when Dolby Digital (AC-3) signals are
input.
6 dts
Lights up when DTS signals are input.
Note
When playing a DTS format disc, be sure that you
have made digital connections and that INPUT MODE
is NOT set to ANALOG (see 3 on page 23).
7 D. RANGE
Lights up when dynamic range compression is active.
See page 35 to adjust the dynamic range compression.
8 Tuner indicators
These indicators light up when using the receiver to
tune in radio stations, etc. See pages 37 – 40 for tuner
operations.
9 Play back channel indicators
The letters light up to indicate the channels being
played back.
L: Front Left
R: Front Right
C: Center (monaural) LS: Left Surround
RS: Right Surround
S: Surround (monaural or the rear components
obtained by Pro Logic processing)
The boxes around the letters light up to indicate the
speakers used to playback the channels.
See the next page for details regarding the playback
channel indicators.
q; L F E
L F E will light up when the disc being played
contains the LFE (Low Frequency Effect) channel and
when the sound of the LFE channel signal is actually
being reproduced.