Integra DTR-9.1 - Manual (Page 88)

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Listening Mode Setup
Description listening mode parameters
Subwoofer
Set this to “Off” if you are not using a subwoofer (even if
one is connected). If “No” is selected for the Subwoofer
setting in the Speaker Config sub-menu, then this setting
will not appear.
Re-EQ/Academy
Depending on the listening mode, you can either turn Re-
EQ on or off, or you can select “Re-EQ,” “Academy,” or
“Off.”
Re-EQ: Re-EQ (re-equalization) takes the edginess or
“brightness” out of your home cinema sound to
compensate for the fact that sound mixed for
theaters may sound too bright when played back
through speakers in the home environment.
Academy: Older monaural film mixes relied on high-
frequency rolloff in presentation to sound properly
balanced, so that excessive hiss from the grain
structure of the film would not be heard. The high-
frequency loss was typically due to a combination of
optical slit loss, electrical filters, loudspeaker response,
and screen loss. Some films have been transferred to
video without such a high-frequency rolloff, and thus
sound overly bright and hissy. This unit includes this
“Academy filter,” which is based on contemporary
playback practices for such films over wide-range
systems.
On: Select to turn on the Re-EQ.
Off: Select to turn off both the Re-EQ and Academy
filters.
Input Channel
This allows you to set which input channel to use for
monaural sound.
Auto L+R: Select this under normal circumstances.
When the input source is center channel only, this
channel is used for monaural sound input channel.
Otherwise, left and right channels are mixed and the
mixed signal is used for monaural sound input
channel.
Left/Right: You will need to select either left or right
when playing a video source that contains bilingual
data. In such a case, the left and right channels will
contain different language. Select the channel with
the language you desire.
Output Channel
This allows you to set which output channel to use for
monaural sound. If “None” is selected for the Center
Speaker setting in the Speaker Config sub-menu, then this
setting will not appear.
Auto L+R: The monaural sound is split between the left
and right channels.
Center: The monaural sound is output from the front
center channel.
Surround Speakers
This setting allows you to decide through which speakers
to output the sound meant for the surround speakers
during 5.1-channel output when seven speakers are
connected to this unit.
Note:
If you have two surround back speakers placed very
close together and you select “Surround Back” or “Surr L/
R+Back,” then you may not achieve the desired left-right
separation of the sound space. In this case, “Surround
L+R” is recommended.
Surround L/R: This outputs the sound to the surround
left and right speakers as normal and outputs nothing
to the surround back left and right speakers.
Surround Back: This outputs the sound to the surround
back left and right speakers and outputs nothing to
the surround left and right speakers.
Sur L/R+Back: This outputs the sound to both the
surround left and right speakers and the surround
back left and right speakers.
Upsampling
Upsampling processes the input digital signal or the
converted digital signal from analog input source and
converts their digital sampling frequency to twice the
current frequency for an even further detailed sound
reproduction. This can be set to either “On” or “Off.”
Surround Mode
Selects the Surround Mode for analog or PCM source.
Available options are PL
Movie (Pro Logic Movie), PL
Music (Pro Logic Music), DTS Neo:6 Cinema, and DTS
Neo:6 Music.
You can change the Surround Mode settings easily using
the remote controller. When you set the listening mode to
Pro Logic
or DTS Neo:6, each press of the SURROUND
button on the remote controller cyclically changes the
Surround mode in the order of PL
Movie, PL Music, DTS
Neo:6 Cinema, and DTS Neo:6 Music.
Surround Mode (2ch)
Selects the Surround Mode for 2 ch digital source (except
for PCM). Available options are PL
Movie and PL
Music. You cannot select Neo:6 Cinema and Neo:6
Music.
Pro Logic Music Panorama
Use this listening mode to expand sound space in front of
a listener to both side of the listener.
On: Turns on the PL
Music Panorama mode.
Off: Turns off the PL Music Panorama mode.
Pro Logic Music Dimension
Use this listening mode to modify the sound space
location forward or backward.
The setting of “3” is the normal position and setting to “2”
or lower moves the sound space forward and setting to
“4” or higher move the sound space backward.
If the stereo recording has excessive broadness or too
strong surroundness, move the sound space forward to
get the appropriate sound balance. In contrast, if the
stereo recording is somewhat felt like monaural or has
narrowness, move the sound space backward to get
more surroundness.
Pro Logic Music Center Width
In Pro Logic decoding, outstanding center signal will be
output only from center speaker. When the center
speaker is not used, the decoder divide the center signal
equally to each front left and right speakers to create
“phantom” center sound image.
The Pro Logic
Music Center Width mode allows you to
adjust where the center sound image is heard from.
Depending on your setting, the center sound image will
be heard from center speaker only, front left and right
speakers (as phantom center sound image), or all three
speakers (center, front left and right) in various level
combinations. For home use, applying some “width” to
center signal will improve the level balance for center
and main speakers, and effect the width of the center
sound image, or “mass” of the sound. Many of sound
recordings processed for stereo playback will be
reproduced better by controlling the parameter for this
listening mode. The recommended setting for Pro Logic
Music mode is “3.” This allows you to easily distinguish the
Pro Logic
Music mode from the Pro Logic Movie mode
whose setting is automatically set to “0.”