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RSP-1098 Surround Sound Processor
About Rotel
A family whose passionate interest in music
led them to manufacture high fidelity compo-
nents of uncompromising quality founded Rotel
40 years ago. Through the years that passion
has remained undiminished and the family goal
of providing exceptional value for audiophiles
and music lovers regardless of their budget,
is shared by all Rotel employees.
The engineers work as a close team, listen-
ing to, and fine tuning each new product until
it reaches their exacting musical standards.
They are free to choose components from
around the world in order to make that prod-
uct the best they can. You are likely to find
capacitors from the United Kingdom and
Germany, semi conductors from Japan or the
United States, while toroidal power transformers
are manufactured in Rotel’s own factory.
Rotel’s reputation for excellence has been
earned through hundreds of good reviews and
awards from the most respected reviewers in
the industry, who listen to music every day.
Their comments keep the company true to its
goal - the pursuit of equipment that is musi-
cal, reliable and affordable.
All of us at Rotel, thank you for buying this
product and hope it will bring you many years
of enjoyment.
Surround features
• Automatic Dolby Digital
®
decoding for
Dolby Digital
®
2.0, Dolby Digital
®
5.1, and
Dolby Digital Surround EX
®
recordings.
• Dolby
®
Pro Logic II
®
decoding for Dolby
Surround
®
matrix encoded recordings. Can
be optimized for Music or Cinema sources
plus an emulation mode for the original
Dolby Pro Logic decoding.
• Automatic decoding for DTS
®
5.1 channel,
DTS-ES
®
Matrix 6.1 channel, DTS-ES
®
Dis-
crete 6.1 channel, and DTS 96/24 digi-
tal recordings.
• DTS
®
Neo:6
®
Surround modes for deriv-
ing surround channels for 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1
channel systems from 2-channel stereo or
matrix surround recordings. Can be opti-
mized for Music or Cinema sources.
• Automatic decoding for MPEG Multichannel
digital recordings.
• Rotel XS (eXtra Surround) automatically en-
sures proper decoding and optimum per-
formance from any multichannel digital
signal on 6.1 and 7.1 channel systems.
Always active in any system with center
back speaker(s), Rotel XS even works with
signals that would not otherwise activate
the proper decoding (such as non-flagged
DTS-ES and Dolby Surround EX discs) or
for which there is no extended surround
decoder (such as DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital
5.1, and even Dolby Pro Logic II decoded
Dolby Digital 2.0 recordings).
• Surround modes for playback of surround
sound material on 2 channel and 3 chan-
nel systems for total compatibility.
• Four DSP Music modes.
Other features
• Multi-zone, multi-source capability with
independent input selection and volume.
• User friendly ON-SCREEN DISPLAY (OSD)
menu system with programmable labels for
all inputs. Choice of languages.
• Learning remote control to operate the
RSP-1098 and nine other components.
• Upgradeable microprocessor software to
accommodate future upgrades.
• Four assignable 12V trigger outputs for
remote turn-on of power amplifiers and other
components.
Getting Started
Thank you for purchasing the Rotel RSP-1098
Surround Sound Processor. The RSP-1098 is
full-featured audio/video control center for
analog and digital source components. It fea-
tures digital processing for a wide range of
formats including Dolby Surround
®
, Dolby
Digital
®
, DTS
®
and HDCD
®
source material.
Video features
• Front panel widescreen color TFT screen
for video or operating menus.
• Wideband 100 mHz video processing for
HDTV signals.
• Full complement of composite, S-Video, and
Component Video inputs and outputs
• Conversion of composite and S-Video sig-
nals to Component Video for output to TV
monitor.
Audio features
• Rotel’s Balanced Design Concept combines
advanced circuit board layout, comprehen-
sive parts evaluation, and extensive listening
tests for superior sound and reliability.
• Individual circuit boards grouped by func-
tion for maximum signal isolation.
• 24-bit/128x oversampling analog-to-digital
converters from AKM and Crystal Semicon-
ductor 24-bit/192 kHz digital-to-analog
converters
• Analog bypass mode for pure 2-speaker
stereo with no digital processing.
• Optical and coax digital inputs and out-
puts.
• MULTI Input for 7.1 channel analog signals
from DVD-A and SACD players. Subwoofer
options include .1 channel pass through
or bass redirect feature with an analog low-
pass filter for a summed subwoofer output
from seven channels.
• Automatic HDCD
®
decoding for signals from
High Definition Compatible Digital
®
com-
pact discs.
• Automatic decoding of digital signals from
MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) players.
“DTS”, “DTS-ES Extended Surround”, “DTS ES
®
Matrix 6.1”,
and “DTS ES
®
Discrete 6.1”, and “DTS Neo:6
®
”are
trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories.
“Dolby”, “Pro Logic”, “Surround EX”, and the double-D
symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
, HDCD
®
, High Definition Compatible Digital
®
and
Pacific Microsonics™ are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Pacific Microsonics, Inc. in the United States
and/or other countries. HDCD system manufactured under
license from Pacific Microsonics, Inc. This product is covered
by one or more of the following: In the USA: 5,479,168,
5,638,074, 5,640,161, 5,808,574, 5,838,274,
5,854,600, 5,864,311, 5,872,531, and in Australia:
669114. Other patents pending.