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Using loudness and midnight listening, Enhancing dialog, Using the tone controls – Pioneer VSX-515-S/-K User Manual

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Listening to your system

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Using Loudness and Midnight
listening

The Loudness listening feature can be used to
get good bass and treble from music sources
at low volume levels.

The Midnight listening feature allows you to
hear effective surround sound of movies at low
volume levels. The effect automatically adjusts
according to the volume at which you’re
listening.

Above: VSX-515 (left) and VSX-815/915 (right)

1

Press MIDNIGHT/LOUDNESS to switch

between MIDNIGHT, LOUDNESS, and OFF.

1

Enhancing dialog

• Default setting:

OFF

The Dialog Enhancement feature localizes
dialog in the center channel to make it stand
out from other background sounds in a TV or
movie soundtrack.

Above: VSX-515 (left) and VSX-815/915 (right)

Press

DIALOG E

to switch dialog

enhancement on or off.

Using the tone controls

Depending on what you are listening to, you
may want to adjust the bass or treble using the

front panel tone control.

2

Illustrations show the VSX-815/915 front panel

1

Press TONE to select the frequency you

want to adjust.

Press to switch between

BASS

and

TREBLE

.

2

Use the

MULTI JOG

dial to change the

amount of bass or treble as necessary.

The bass and treble can be adjusted from

–6

to

+6

(dB).

• Wait about five seconds for your changes

to be input automatically.

Note

1 • You can’t use

MIDNIGHT/LOUDNESS

when

DVD 5.1ch

has been selected.

• If you switch on Loudness or Midnight listening when

DIRECT

is selected, the receiver automatically switches to

STEREO

.

STEREO/

DIRECT

MIDNIGHT/

LOUDNESS

ADVANCED

SURROUND

LEVEL

DIALOG E

EFFECT

/CH SEL

STANDARD

RECEIVER CONTROL

MUTE

TOP MENU

MENU

SLEEP

FL

DIMMER

ACOUSTIC

EQ

MASTER

VOLUME

RECEIVER CONTROL

SHIFT

CH

CH

LEVEL

SLEEP

STANDARD

ADV.SURR

DIALOG E

INPUT ATT

STEREO

MIDNIGHT/

LOUDNESS

EFFECT

/CH SEL

ACOUSTIC

EQ

STEREO/

DIRECT

MIDNIGHT/

LOUDNESS

ADVANCED

SURROUND

LEVEL

DIALOG E

EFFECT

/CH SEL

STANDARD

RECEIVER CONTROL

MUTE

TOP MENU

MENU

SLEEP

FL

DIMMER

ACOUSTIC

EQ

MASTER

VOLUME

RECEIVER CONTROL

SHIFT

CH

CH

LEVEL

SLEEP

STANDARD

ADV.SURR

DIALOG E

INPUT ATT

STEREO

MIDNIGHT/

LOUDNESS

EFFECT

/CH SEL

ACOUSTIC

EQ

2 You can only use the tone controls when

STEREO/DIRECT

is selected.

DIRECT

will switch to

STEREO

when the tone controls

are used.

S-VIDEO

VIDEO INPUT

DIGITAL IN

VIDEO

L AUDIO R

SETUP MIC

MCACC

UP

DOWN

MULTI JOG

MASTER
VOLUME

ENTER

AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVER

CD

CD-R/TAPE/MD

TUNER

AUX

ACOUSTIC

EQ

QUICK
SETUP

SYSTEM

SETUP

RETURN

SPEAKERS

BAND

TONE

INPUT

ATT

EXTENDED

MODE

TUNING

/STATION

TUNER

EDIT

FL DIMMER

MULTI JOG

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