Pioneer VSX-54TX Owner's Manual - Page 40

05 Listening to your system 2 With one of the advanced effect modes active, press EFFECT/CH SEL repeatedly until EFFECT shows in the front panel display. 3 Use the +/- buttons to adjust the effect level. The effect level can be adjusted from 10 (min) to 90 (max). Listening in stereo When you select STEREO or DIRECT, 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. Note • Many receiver features (such as matrix decoding) are not accessible when the headphones are connected. • When headphones are connected, no sound is heard from the speakers. However, sound will still be output from the preouts. • You can only hear the front left and right channels when MULTI CH IN is switched on. Using the multichannel analog inputs If you've connected to the multichannel inputs on the rear panel (see Connecting the multichannel analog outputs on page 20), you will be able to select them as your input source. • While listening to a source, press STEREO/DIRECT for stereo playback. Press repeatedly to switch between: • STEREO - The audio is heard with your surround settings (such as channel level) and you can still use digital processing (such as the Midnight, Loudness, and Tone control functions). • DIRECT - Bypass all effects and surround settings so that the audio remains as close to the source audio signal as possible. Note • If you switch on any signal processing features (for example, digital noise reduction or the tone controls) when DIRECT is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO. Listening with headphones When headphones are connected, all multichannel sources, as well as all of the MOVIE and MUSIC modes with be downmixed to 2 channels. Two channel sources will be heard in stereo. • Connect a pair of headphones to the PHONES jack on the front panel. All sources will be heard in stereo (downmixed). When you disconnect them it reverts to the previous mode. 1 Make sure you have set the playback source to the proper output setting. For example, you might need to set your DVD player to output multichannel analog audio. 2 Press MULTI CH INPUT (MULTI CH IN on the front panel) to select the multichannel analog inputs. MULTI CH IN shows in the display to indicate the audio is coming from the multichannel analog inputs, regardless of the input source selected. The input source remains dedicated to the multichannel inputs until you press MULTI CH IN/MULTI CH INPUT again to cancel. • If you need to set the channel levels, see Channel Level on page 51 to do so. Note • You can't use any signal processing features (for example, the MOVIE or MUSIC modes or the tone controls) with the multichannel analog inputs. • Speakers set to NO in the Speaker Setting on page 50 do not output the audio for the corresponding channel. • You can't use the Second Zone speaker B setup (page 65) with the multichannel analog inputs. 40 En