Sony HT-SL40 - Manual (Page 23)

23 GB
HT-SL55 4-247-583-12(1) GB
Enjoying Surround Sound
Understanding the multi channel surround displays
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 0
MEMORY L C R
SL
SW
LFE
DIGITAL DTS
PRO LOGIC II ST
RDS OPT COAX
D.RANGE MONO
S SR
1 ; DIGITAL: Lights up when the receiver is
decoding signals recorded in the Dolby
Digital format.
2 DTS: Lights up when DTS signals are input.
3 SW: Lights up when sub woofer selection is
set to “YES” (page 16) and the audio signal is
output from the SUB WOOFER jacks.
4 Playback channel indicators: The letters
(L, C, R, etc.) indicate the channels being
played back.
The boxes around the letters vary to show
how the receiver downmixes the source sound
(based on the speakers settings). When using
sound fields like “C.ST.EX”, the receiver
adds reverberation based on the source sound.
L (Front Left), R (Front Right), C (Center
(monaural)), SL (Surround Left), SR
(Surround Right), S (Surround (monaural or
the surround components obtained by Pro
Logic processing))
Example:
Recording format (Front/Surround): 3/2
Output channel: Surround speakers absent
Sound Field: A.F.D. AUTO
5 Tuner indicators: Light up when using the
receiver to tune in radio stations, etc. See
pages 26–29 for tuner operations.
Note
“RDS” only appears for models of area code
CEL, CEK only.
6 D.RANGE: Lights up when dynamic range
compression is activated. See page 24 to
adjust the dynamic range compression.
7 COAX: Lights up when the source signal is a
digital signal being input through the
COAX terminal.
8 OPT: Lights up when the source signal is a
digital signal being input through the OPT
terminal.
9 LFE: Lights up when the disc being played
back contains the LFE (Low Frequency
Effect) channel and when the sound of the
LFE channel signal is actually being
reproduced.
0 ; PRO LOGIC II: “; PRO LOGIC”
lights up when the receiver applies Pro Logic
processing to 2 channel signals in order to
output the center and surround channel
signals. “; PRO LOGIC II” lights up when
Pro Logic II processing (“PLII MOV” or
“PLII MUS”) is applied (page 20). However,
both indicators do not light up if the center
and surround speakers are set to “NO”,
and “A.F.D. AUTO”, “DOLBY PL”,
“PLII MOV” or “PLII MUS” is selected.
Note
Dolby Pro Logic and Dolby Pro Logic II
decoding does not function for DTS format
signals. SL SR
L R C
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