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05 listening to your system, Auto playback listening in surround sound, Standard surround sound – Pioneer VSX1017TXV User Manual

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Listening to your system

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Chapter 5:

Listening to your system

Important

• The listening modes and many features described in

this section may not be available depending on the
current source (for example, PCM 88.2 kHz/96 kHz,
DTS 96 kHz (24 bit) or WMA9 Pro), settings and status
of the receiver. See

Listening modes with different

input signal formats

on page 70 for more on this.

Tip

• The listening modes described below can also be

selected using the front panel controls. Simply press

LISTENING MODE

repeatedly to access the modes

you want, then use the

MULTI JOG

to select a

particular listening mode (after five seconds the
mode is automatically set).

Auto playback

There are many ways to listen back to sources using this
receiver, but for the simplest, most direct listening option
is the Auto Surround feature. The receiver automatically
detects what kind of source you’re playing and selects

multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.

1

While listening to a source, press

AUTO SURR

for

auto playback of a source.

2

AUTO SURROUND

shows briefly in the display before

showing the decoding or playback format. Check the
digital format indicators in the front panel display to see
how the source is being processed.

• When listening to XM Radio, the XM HD Surround

feature is selected automatically (see

Using XM HD

Surround

on page 45 for more on this).

Listening in surround sound

Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in
surround sound. However, the options available will
depend on your speaker setup and the type of source
you’re listening to.

If you connected surround back speakers, see also

Using

surround back channel processing

on page 30.

Standard surround sound

The following modes provide basic surround sound for

stereo and multichannel sources.

3

While listening to a source, press

STANDARD

.

If necessary, press repeatedly to select a listening mode.

• If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround

encoded, the proper decoding format will

automatically be selected and shows in the display.

4

With two channel sources

, you can select from:

2

Pro Logic IIx MOVIE

– Up to 7.1 channel sound,

especially suited to movie sources

2

Pro Logic IIx MUSIC

– Up to 7.1 channel sound,

especially suited to music sources

5

2

Pro Logic IIx GAME

– Up to 7.1 channel sound,

especially suited to video games

2

PRO LOGIC

– 4.1 channel surround sound (sound

from the surround speakers is mono)

Neo:6 CINEMA

– 6.1 channel sound, especially

suited to movie sources

Neo:6 MUSIC

– 6.1 channel sound, especially suited

to music sources

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With multichannel sources, if you have connected
surround back speaker(s) and have selected

SBch ON

, you

can select (according to format):

Note

1 • Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using

Neo:6 CINEMA

or

2

Pro Logic IIx MOVIE

(see

Listening in surround sound

above

for more on these decoding formats).

• The Auto Surround feature is canceled if you connect headphones or select the multichannel analog inputs.

2 For more options using this button, see

Using Stream Direct

on page 30.

SHIFT

STEREO/

F.S.SURR

PHOTO

MULTI OPE

RECEIVER

THX

STANDARD

AUTO SURR

SIGNAL SEL

ADV.SURR

ACOUSTIC EQ

EFFECT/CH SEL

LEVEL

3 In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is heard from both surround back speakers.
4 If surround back channel processing (page 30) is switched

OFF

, or the surround back speakers are set to

NO

(this happens automatically if the

Surround

back speaker setting

on page 35 is set to anything but

Normal (SB)

),

2

Pro Logic IIx

becomes

2

Pro Logic II

(5.1 channel sound).

5 When listening to 2-channel sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust: Center Width, Dimension,
and Panorama. See

Setting the effect options

on page 29 to adjust them.

6 When listening to 2-channel sources in Neo:6 Music mode, you can also adjust the center image effect (see

Setting the effect options

on page 29).

SHIFT

STEREO/

F.S.SURR

PHOTO

MULTI OPE

RECEIVER

THX

STANDARD

AUTO SURR

SIGNAL SEL

ADV.SURR

ACOUSTIC EQ

EFFECT/CH SEL

LEVEL

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