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Using Receiver How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes? How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes? You can experience true home-theater sound with your Kenwood AudioVideo Receiver. This receiver incorporates several listen modes to let you enjoy surround sound with a wide variety of program sources. Each produces multiple channels of surround-sound, but each does it differently. What is the THX? • THX: Movie soundtracks are mixed in special movie theaters called dubbing stages and are designed to be played back in movie theaters with similar equipment and conditions. The soundtrack created for movie theaters is then transferred directly onto Laserdisc, VHS tape, DVD, etc., and is not changed for playback in a small home theater environment. THX engineers developed patented technologies to accurately translate the sound from the movie theater environment into the home, correcting the tonal and spatial errors that occur. On the VR-5700/ VR-5090/VR-5080, when the THX mode is on, the THX technologies are automatically added after the decoded signal. Movies which have been encoded in Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, Dolby Pro Logic, Stereo and Mono can all benefit from activating the THX technologies. THX should be activated only when watching movies which were mixed for playback in large movie theater environments. THX need not be activated for music, movies that were made especially for television or shows such as sports programming, talk shows, etc. This is because they were mixed in a small room environment. • THX Surround EX: THX Surround EX - Dolby Digital Surround EX is a joint development of Dolby Laboratories and the THX division of Lucasfilm Ltd. In a movie theater, film soundtracks that have been encoded with Dolby Digital Surround EX technology are able to reproduce an extra channel which has been added during the mixing of the program. This channel, called Surround Back, places sounds behind the listener in addition to the currently available front left, front center, front right, surround right, surround left and subwoofer channels. This additional channel provides the opportunity for more detailed imaging behind the listener and brings more depth, spacious ambience and sound localization than ever before. 17

Section	Page
VR-5700_5090_5080	1
Table of Contents	3
Chapter One: Moving Around	9
What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver?	10
What’s on Remote Control Unit?	12
LCD Indicators	14
How Do I Use Remote Control Unit?	15
Remote controllable range	15
Chapter Two: Controlling the Receiver	16
How Do I Adjust the Sound?	17
Turning the Speakers On	17
Adjusting the Volume	18
Adjusting the Tone (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode Off)	19
Adjusting the Loudness (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode Off)	21
Adjusting Speaker Levels	22
Adjusting the Input Level	23
Muting Sound	24
Midnight Theater Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES only)	24
How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes?	25
What is the THX?	25
What are Listen Modes?	26
Checking the Input signal during playback	29
Input Modes (only for input with digital jacks)	30
Switching Input Modes	31
To set the THX Mode	32
To set the Listen Mode manually	34
Examples of inputs with which switching is available	35
Description of Dolby Pro Logic II: Music mode	37
Selecting the parameter of Pro Logic II : Music mode	37
Applying Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Effects	39
Setting a DSP effect	39
HDCDR and D.R.I.V.E. Effects	41
Headphone Operation	42
Selecting the Inputs	43
How Do I Operate Devices?	44
Playback of the device connected to the CD2/TAPE2 MONITOR	44
Operating a Television	45
Operating an AV Device	46
Operating a CD player	47
To play Kenwood 200-Disc CD Changer	47
Single or Rotary CD Player	49
CD-R Recorder	49
Operating an MD Recorder or Cassette Deck	50
Playing an Analog Turntable	51
Monitoring a Video Camera or Playing an Additional VCR	51
Radio Tuning	52
Presetting radio stations	53
Recording	55
How Do I Adjust the LCD Display?	58
Using Remote Control unit under low light	58
Adjusting the contrast of LCD display	58
Adjusting the brightness of receiver	59
Selecting the display mode of receiver front panel	59
Executing Several Operations at Once (Macro function)	60
Registering a macro	60
Executing a macro	61
Using Remote Control Unit in Multiple Zones	62
How Do I Switch Control Modes?	62
Operation using the SYS.POWER button on Remote Control unit	64
Chapter Three: Button Layout in Controlling Other Devices	65
Chapter Four: Troubleshooting	77
Sound	79
I don’t hear any sound at all	79
Audio is not output only when a 96k fs compatible disc is played.	79
The 96k fs indicator does not light while a 96k fs compatible disc is being played.	79
I can’t hear sound from one or more of the speakers, or the sound is abnormally low	80
I can’t hear sound from my surround or center speakers	80
I can hear sound only from the center speaker when Dolby ProLogic is selected	80
A DTS-ES encoded source is played but it is not decoded in DTS-ES.	80
A Dolby Digital Surround EX-encoded source is played with THX Surround EX set to “Auto”, but the source is not reproduced in 6.1-channel audio.	81
Sound from one (or more) of my components is abnormally loud or soft	81
I can’t hear sound from some of my laser discs	81
There wasn’t any sound recorded on tapes made on my VCR or tape deck	81
The initial sound is intermittent or non-existent when I start to play from a Dolby Digital, DTS, DTS-ES or MPEG source	81
With a Dolby Digital program or DTS program, the loud sounds aren’t very loud and the quiet sounds aren’t very quiet	82
All I hear is loud static when I play DTS discs	82
I hear a hum when I select the PHONO input	82
I can’t hear any sound in Zone B	82
Video	82
I can’t see the program I’m playing on the TV. There wasn’t any video output to my VCR when I recorded	82
Remote Control unit	83
My Remote Control unit is slow to respond.sometimes I have to press buttons or select commands several times	83
My Remote Control unit is not responding	83
I want to clear all the items in Remote Control unit and make it tothe factory-set default condition.	84
The RF remote control function does not work.	84
Receiver/Tuner	84
My receiver won’t turn on and the STANDBY indicator is flashing	84
The sound is distorted, and the CLIP indicator on the receiver’s front panel flashes red continually, or stays red for more than 1second at a time.	85
I can’t receive a radio station	86
I’m getting a lot of static/interference	86
When I press a button to tune to a preset station, the receiver does not respond.	86

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Using Receiver

How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes?

You can experience true home-theater sound with your Kenwood Audio-

Video Receiver. This receiver incorporates several listen modes to let you

enjoy surround sound with a wide variety of program sources. Each pro-

duces multiple channels of surround-sound, but each does it differently.

What is the THX?

•

THX:

Movie soundtracks are mixed in special movie theaters called

dubbing stages and are designed to be played back in movie theaters

with similar equipment and conditions. The soundtrack created for

movie theaters is then transferred directly onto Laserdisc, VHS tape,

DVD, etc., and is not changed for playback in a small home theater

environment.

THX engineers developed patented technologies to accurately trans-

late the sound from the movie theater environment into the home,

correcting the tonal and spatial errors that occur. On the VR-5700/

VR-5090/VR-5080, when the THX mode is on, the THX technologies

are automatically added after the decoded signal.

Movies which have been encoded in Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, Dolby

Pro Logic, Stereo and Mono can all benefit from activating the THX

technologies. THX should be activated only when watching movies

which were mixed for playback in large movie theater environments.

THX need not be activated for music, movies that were made espe-

cially for television or shows such as sports programming, talk shows,

etc. This is because they were mixed in a small room environment.

•

THX Surround EX:

THX Surround EX - Dolby Digital Surround EX is

a joint development of Dolby Laboratories and the THX division of

Lucasfilm Ltd.

In a movie theater, film soundtracks that have been encoded with

Dolby Digital Surround EX technology are able to reproduce an extra

channel which has been added during the mixing of the program.

This channel, called Surround Back, places sounds behind the listener

in addition to the currently available front left, front center, front right,

surround right, surround left and subwoofer channels. This additional

channel provides the opportunity for more detailed imaging behind

the listener and brings more depth, spacious ambience and sound

localization than ever before.