05 listening to your system, Auto playback listening in surround sound, Standard surround sound – Pioneer VSX-AX2AS-s 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, settings and status of the receiver.
See

Listening modes with different input signal

formats

on page 86 for more on this.

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

S.DIRECT

(

AUTO

SURR

/

STREAM DIRECT

)

2

for auto playback of a source.

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.

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

(

STANDARD SURROUND

).

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

6

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

SBch ON

, you

can select (according to format):

2

Pro Logic IIx MOVIE

– See above (only available

when you’re using two surround back speakers)

2

Pro Logic IIx MUSIC

– See above

Dolby Digital EX

– Creates surround back channel

sound for 5.1 channel sources and provides pure
decoding for 6.1 channel sources (like Dolby Digital
Surround EX)

DTS-ES

– Allows you to hear 6.1 channel playback

with DTS-ES encoded sources

DTS Neo:6

– Allows you to hear 6.1 channel playback

with DTS encoded sources

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 29.

3 In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is heard from both surround back speakers.

SHIFT

MCACC

S.DIRECT

MULTI OPE

ADV. SURR

STANDARD

PHASE

THX

RECEIVER

SHIFT

MCACC

S.DIRECT

MULTI OPE

ADV. SURR

STANDARD

PHASE

THX

RECEIVER

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 37 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 AV options on page 66 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 AV options on page 66).

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