Pioneer VSX-517-S Owner's Manual - Page 24

05 Listening to your system 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). Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo. CD CD-R FM AM STEREO/ AUTOSURR F.S.SURR STANDARD ADV.SURR TOP MENU MENU • While listening to a source, press STEREO/F.S.SURR for stereo playback. Press repeatedly to switch between: • STEREO - The audio is heard with your surround settings and you can still use the Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions. • F.S.S.FOCUS - See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this. • F.S.S. WIDE - See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this. 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. CD CD R FM AM STEREO/ AUTOSURR F.S.SURR STANDARD ADV.SURR • While listening to a source, press STEREO/ F.S.SURR to select Front Stage Surround Advance modes. • STEREO - See Listening in stereo above for more on this • F.S.S.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. • F.S.S. WIDE - Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.1 FOCUS position (Recommend) Front left speaker Front right speaker WIDE position Front left speaker Front right speaker 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. CD CD R FM AM STEREO/ AUTOSURR F.S.SURR STANDARD ADV.SURR • While listening to a source, press AUTO SURR to select Stream Direct mode. • AUTOSURR. - See Auto playback on page 22. • DIRECT - Sources are heard according to the settings made in the Surround Setup (speaker setting, channel level, speaker distance), as well as with dual mono, Center Width, Dimension and Panorama settings. You will hear sources according to the number of channels in the signal. For analog sources, only Channel Level can be set. All other digital processing can not be set. Note 1 When using F.S.S. WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if Quick Setup is performed (see Using the Quick Setup on page 7). 24 En