Pioneer VSX-1121-K Owner's Manual - Page 50

06 Listening to your system • CLASSICAL - Gives a large concert hall-type sound • ROCK/POP - Creates a live concert sound for rock and/or pop music • UNPLUGGED - Suitable for acoustic music sources • EXT.STEREO - Gives multichannel sound to a stereo source, using all of your speakers • PHONES SURR - When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround. • F.S.SURR WIDE - Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode. FOCUS position (Recommended) Front left speaker Front right speaker WIDE position Front left speaker Front right speaker Tip • When an Advanced Surround listening mode is selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the EFFECT parameter in Setting the Audio options on page 55. Listening in stereo When you select STEREO, you will hear the source through just the front left and right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer depending on your speaker settings). Multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo. • While listening to a source, press RECEIVER , then press STEREO for stereo playback. Press repeatedly to switch between: • STEREO - The audio is heard with your sound settings and you can still use the audio options. • F.S.SURR FOCUS - See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this. • F.S.SURR WIDE - See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this. • SOUND RETRIEVER AIR1 - Suitable for listening to the sound from a Bluetooth wireless technology device. Using Front Stage Surround Advance The Front Stage Surround Advance function allows you to create natural surround sound effects using just the front speakers and the subwoofer. • While listening to a source, press RECEIVER , then press STEREO to select Front Stage Surround Advance modes. • STEREO - See Listening in stereo above for more on this. • F.S.SURR FOCUS - Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center of where the front left and right speakers sound projection area converges. Using Stream Direct Use the Stream Direct modes when you want to hear the truest possible reproduction of a source. All unnecessary signal processing is bypassed, and you're left with the pure analog or digital sound source. Processing differs depending on the input signal and whether or not surround back speakers are connected. For details, see Auto Surround, ALC and Stream Direct with different input signal formats on page 97. • While listening to a source, press RECEIVER , then press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT (AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM DIRECT) to select the mode you want. Check the digital format indicators in the front panel display to see how the source is being processed. • AUTO SURROUND - See Auto playback on page 48. • ALC - Listening in Auto level control mode (page 48). • DIRECT - Plays back sound from the source with the least modification next to PURE DIRECT. With DIRECT, the only modifications added to PURE DIRECT playback are calibration of the sound field by the MCACC system and the Phase Control effect. • PURE DIRECT - Plays back unmodified sound from source with only minimal digital treatment. No sound is output from the Speaker B in this mode. Note 1 The SOUND RETRIEVER AIR listening mode can only selected when the ADAPTER PORT input. 50 En