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temp. display The temp. display button leads to a screen on which you may select how long the
temporary on-screen display shown on your television lasts when you make a change to
the SSP-300. Your choices are none (effectively turning off these small OSD messages on
the television), and 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 seconds.
NOTE: Anytime there is a status change, the temporary display will appear at
the bottom of the main video output screen and over the menu screen.
The menu screen will appear slightly darker or “muted” in color. When
this occurs, no selections can be made until the temp. display turns off.
volume There are two common ways of displaying the volume information in a multichannel
system.
The absolute system refers to the notion that most people thinking of the number 0 as
meaning nothing, e.g., no sound at all. In this system, 0 means “sound off” and larger
numbers indicate high volumes. While this is intuitive, the only way you have any idea
how loud a particular setting is would be through experience.
In the relative (THX) system, there is a calibrated, reference volume at which movies are
played in theaters, which is duplicated in your environment and referred to as “0 dB.”
Regardless of how large or how small the theater, a setting of “0 dB” is always the same,
known volume. Changes from that volume level are shown as either positive (louder) or
negative (quieter). People who have spent any time making recordings will recognize that
this is similar to the notion of “0 dB” on a record level meter.
In any event, you may choose either system depending on which one makes the most
sense to you personally.
Dolby/DTS setup The SSP-300 incorporates both Dolby Pro Logic II and DTS Neo:6 technologies for
converting a two-channel signal into an enjoyable multichannel listening experience.
While they differ in the details of their implementation and in the subjective result, on a
conceptual level they do the same thing: they analyze the information embedded in two-
channel recordings, looking for clues that can indicate how the sound in those recordings
might best be redistributed to the various speakers in a multichannel system, so as to
simulate a discrete multichannel recording. Each has one or more adjustments available
to let you customize the performance of the processing to best suit your personal
preferences.