Pioneer VSX 818V Owner's Manual - Page 33

Listening to your system 05 English Deutsch Français Italiano Nederlands Español Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ • Default setting: OFF / ALL CH (after the Auto MCACC Setup or EQ Auto Setting) You can listen to sources using the Acoustic Calibration Equalization set in Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 8 or Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 40. Refer to these pages for more on Acoustic Calibration Equalization. AUTO/DIRECT STEREO/ A.L.C. STANDARD ADV SURR ACOUSTIC SOUND PHASE EQ DIALOG RETRIEVER • While listening to a source, press ACOUSTIC EQ. Press repeatedly to select between: • ALL CH - No special weighting is given to any one channel. • F. ALIGN - All speakers are heard in accordance with the front speaker settings. • CUSTOM 1/2 - Custom settings • EQ OFF - Switches Acoustic Calibration EQ off. The MCACC indicator on the front panel lights when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.1 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB) Selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround back channel through your surround speakers. For example, you can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information (for example, 5.1 encoded material) with emulated 6.1 encoding (VSB ON). Sometimes the material may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it was originally encoded. In this case you can simply switch it off (VSB OFF).2 Depending on the input signal and the Listening Mode, the Virtual Surround Back mode may not be effective. STANDBY/ON PHASE CONTROL INPUT SELECTOR DVD TV DVR VIDEO/PORTABLE PHONES SOUND RETRIEVER VSB MODE SPEAKERS SIGNAL SELECT • Press VSB MODE (front panel) to select a virtual surround back channel option. Each press cycles through the options as follows: • VSB ON - Virtual Surround Back is always used (for example, on 5.1 encoded material) • VSB OFF - Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off Note 1 You can't use Acoustic Calibration EQ with DVD 5.1ch, Stream Direct mode, WMA9 Pro or XM HD Surround, and it has no effect with headphones. 2 The Virtual Surround Back mode is not effective when using headphones, Stream Direct, Stereo, Auto level control stereo mode, Front Stage Surround Advance mode. It is also unavailable if the surround speaker is set to NO in Speaker Setting on page 42. 33 En