Pioneer VSX-1018AH-K Owner's Manual - Page 34
Type of source, Processing, Virtual SB, Standard, Advanced, surround, Multichannel, sources, Stereo
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05 Listening to your system Using the Virtual Surround Back mode When you're not using surround back speakers, selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround back channel through your surround speakers. You can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information, or if the material sounds better in the format (for example, 5.1) for which it was originally encoded, you can have the receiver only apply this effect to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES.1 The table indicates when you will hear the virtual surround back channel (=Virtual surround back channel is active). • Press SBch repeatedly to cycle the virtual surround back channel options. Each press cycles through the options as follows: • VirtualSB ON - Virtual Surround Back is always used (for example, on 5.1 encoded material) • VirtualSB AUTO - Virtual Surround Back is automatically applied to 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES) • VirtualSB OFF - Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off Type of source SBch Standard Processing / Virtual SB Multichannel Stereo sources mode sources 2 Pro Logic IIx 2 Pro Logic Dolby Digital EX/DTS-ES 5.1 ch sources with 6.1 ch flagged ON AUTO Dolby Digital/DTS/SACD and DVD- ON Audio 5.1 ch sources AUTO Dolby Digital/DTS/PCM/SACD/WMA9 Pro and DVD-Audio stereo sources ON AUTO a b Analog 2-channel (stereo) sources ON a AUTO b DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS-HD/Dolby ON Digital Plus/Dolby TrueHD/WMA9 Pro encoded and PCM 6.1 ch/7.1 ch AUTO sources Dolby Digital Plus/Dolby TrueHD/ ON WMA9 Pro encoded and PCM 5.1 ch sources AUTO DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS-HD/ DTS-EXPRESS encoded 5.1 ch sources ON d AUTO d Neo:6 Advanced surround c c c c c c Note 1 • You can't use the Virtual Surround Back mode when the headphones are connected to this receiver or when any of the stereo, Front Stage Surround Advance, Auto level control stereo or Stream Direct mode is selected. • You can only use the Virtual Surround Back mode if the surround speakers are on and the SB setting is set to NO in the Speaker Setting on page 48. • The Virtual Surround Back mode cannot be applied to sources that do not have surround channel information. 34 En