Pioneer VSX-530-K Owner's Manual - Page 26

4 Listening to your system ADVANCED Using the Advanced surround ADV SURR SURROUND The Advanced surround feature creates a variety of surround effects. Try different modes with various soundtracks to see which you like. ACTION Designed for action movies with dynamic soundtracks. DRAMA Designed for movies with lots of dialog. ADVANCED GAME Suitable for video games. SPORTS Suitable for sports programs. CLASSICAL Gives a large concert hall-type sound. ROCK/POP Creates a live concert sound for rock and/or pop music. EXT.STEREO Gives multichannel sound to a stereo source, using all of your speakers. F.S.S.ADVANCE (Front Stage Surround ADVANCE) Allows you to create natural surround sound effects using just the front speakers and the subwoofer. Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center of where the front left and right speakers sound projection area converges. Front left speaker Front right speaker PHONES SURR ECO MODE 1 ECO MODE 2 When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround. Cut back on power consumption. Suitable for contents that are mainly high level (mainly music). Cut back on even more power consumption than ECO MODE 1. Suitable for contents with wider dynamic range (mainly movies). Note • During ECO mode, the brightness switches between 2 levels. If the dimmest level is selected, DIMMER will be shown on the display. (Mode other than ECO: 4 levels, ECO mode: 2 levels) • ECO MODE will switch OFF automatically when switched to other listening modes (Advanced surround mode and Auto surround mode). Using Stream Direct AUTO/ DIRECT AUTO SURROUND/ 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. AUTO SURROUND See Auto playback on page 25. DIRECT Sources are heard according to the settings made in the Manual SP Setup (speaker setting, channel level, speaker distance), as well as with dual mono settings. You will hear sources according to the number of channels in the signal. Phase Control, Sound Delay, Auto Delay, LFE Attenuate and Center image functions are available. PURE DIRECT Analog and PCM sources are heard without any digital processing. Using the Sound Retriever When audio data is removed during the compression process, sound quality often suffers from an uneven sound image. The Sound Retriever feature employs new DSP technology that helps bring CD quality sound back to compressed 2-channel audio by restoring sound pressure and smoothing jagged artifacts left over after compression.  Press S.RETRIEVER to switch the S.RTV (Sound Retriever) ON or OFF. Note • The Sound Retriever is only applicable to 2-channel sources. Better sound using Phase Control This receiver's Phase Control feature uses phase correction measures to make sure your sound source arrives at the listening position in phase, preventing unwanted distortion and/or coloring of the sound. Phase Control technology provides coherent sound reproduction through the use of phase matching for an optimal sound image at your listening position. The default setting is on and we recommend leaving Phase Control switched on for all sound sources. 5 7 33  Press PHASE to switch the P.CTL (Phase Control) ON or OFF. Note • Phase matching is a very important factor in achieving proper sound reproduction. If two waveforms are 'in phase', they crest and trough together, resulting in increased amplitude, clarity and presence of the sound signal. If a crest of a wave meets a trough, then the sound will be 'out of phase' and an unreliable sound image will be produced. • If your subwoofer has a phase control switch, set it to the plus (+) sign (or 0°). However, the effect you can actually feel when Phase Control is set to ON on this receiver depends on the type of your subwoofer. Set your subwoofer to maximize the effect. It is also recommended you try changing the orientation or the place of your subwoofer. • Set the built-in lowpass filter switch of your subwoofer to OFF. If this cannot be done on your subwoofer, set the cutoff frequency to a higher value. • If the speaker distance is not properly set, you may not have a maximized Phase Control effect. • The Phase Control mode cannot be set to ON in the following cases: - When the PURE DIRECT mode is switched on. - When the headphones are connected. 26