Listening In Stereo; Using Front Stage Surround Advance; Using Stream Direct - Pioneer VSX-917V-S Operating Instructions Manual

05 Listening to your system
Setting What it does
Effect Sets the effect level for the
currently selected Advanced
Surround mode (each mode
can be set separately).
a Only available with 2 ch sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Mu-
sic mode (also available with 2 Pro Logic II 5.1sound).
b Only available with 2 ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.

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.
AUTO SURR
• 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.
AUTO SURR
Note
1 When using F.S.S. WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if Auto MCACC Setup is performed. For more on this, refer to
Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 8.
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En
Options
10 to 90
STEREO/
STANDARD ADV.SURR
F.S.SURR
STEREO/
STANDARD ADV.SURR
F.S.SURR
• 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
1
mode.
FOCUS position (Recommend)
Front left Front right
speaker speaker

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.
STEREO/
AUTO SURR
F.S.SURR
• While listening to a source, press AUTO
SURR to select the Stream Direct mode.
• AUTOSURR. – See Auto playback on
page 28.
• 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.
WIDE position
Front left Front right
speaker speaker
STANDARD ADV.SURR