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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.
• 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.
• 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.
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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.
• 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.
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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).
Front left
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Front right
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FOCUS position (Recommend)
Front left
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Front right
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WIDE position
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