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Midnight Theater Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES only), To balance volume extremes

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How Do I Adjust the Sound? Midnight Theater Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES only) Any time you don't want to experience the loud and soft volume extremes of recorded sound (for example, late at night), use Midnight Theater function to reduce volume extremes. This feature keeps loud, dramatic sound from being too loud (perhaps disturbing family members or neighbors) while ensuring that you can still hear whispered dialog or other soft sounds. Midnight theater function only works if you are listening to a Dolby Digital, DTS or DTS-ES program that has been encoded with special compression data. To balance volume extremes 1. Touch (Sound) on the Quick Access menu to open the Sound menu. If the opened menu is not the Sound menu, touch . Using PowerTouch III 2. Touch until the balancing sounds right to you: • Off for normal balancing • 1 for quieter balancing • 2 for quietest balancing (the least difference between the loudest and quietest sound) 3. Touch to return to the previous menu or touch one of the Quick Access menu buttons to proceed to the next operation. Operation on the receiver: 1. Press the SOUND button in the panel door repeatedly until MID- NIGHT OFF, 1 or 2 is displayed. 2. Press the MULTI CONTROL (%/fi) button to select 1, 2 or OFF, then press the SOUND button repeatedly until returning to the previous menu. 16

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Using PowerTouch III
How Do I Adjust the Sound?
Midnight Theater Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES only)
Any time you don
t want to experience the loud and soft volume extremes
of recorded sound (for example, late at night), use Midnight Theater func-
tion to reduce volume extremes. This feature keeps loud, dramatic sound
from being too loud (perhaps disturbing family members or neighbors)
while ensuring that you can still hear whispered dialog or other soft sounds.
Midnight theater function only works if you are listening to a Dolby Digi-
tal, DTS or DTS-ES program that has been encoded with special compres-
sion data.
To balance volume extremes
1.
Touch
(Sound) on the Quick Access menu to open the Sound menu.
If the opened menu is not the Sound menu, touch
.
2.
Touch
until the balancing sounds right to you:
Off
for normal balancing
1
for quieter balancing
2
for quietest balancing (the least difference between the loudest
and quietest sound)
3.
Touch
to return to the previous menu or touch one of the Quick
Access menu buttons to proceed to the next operation.
Operation on the receiver:
1.
Press the
SOUND
button in the panel door repeatedly until
MID-
NIGHT OFF,
1
or
2
is displayed.
2.
Press the
MULTI CONTROL
(
%
/
) button to select
1, 2
or
OFF
, then
press the
SOUND
button repeatedly until returning to the previous
menu.