User manual PIONEER VSX531

[. . . ] Book 2 ページ ２０１６年２月３日　水曜日　午後３時３４分 Contents Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate your model properly. 2 Connecting your equipment Placing the speakers . 12 Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal . [. . . ] Analog and PCM sources are heard without any digital processing. PURE DIRECT PHONES SURR ECO 1 When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround. Suitable for contents that are mainly high level (mainly music). Cut back on even more power consumption than ECO 1. Suitable for contents with wider dynamic range (mainly movies). Book 24 ページ ２０１６年２月３日　水曜日　午後３時３４分 4 Using the Sound Retriever When audio data is removed during the compression process, sound quality often suffers from an uneven sound image. The Sound Retriever feature employs new DSP technology that helps bring CD quality sound back to compressed 2-channel audio by restoring sound pressure and smoothing jagged artifacts left over after compression. Note • Phase matching is a very important factor in achieving proper sound reproduction. If two waveforms are ‘in phase’, they crest and trough together, resulting in increased amplitude, clarity and presence of the sound signal. If a crest of a wave meets a trough, then the sound will be ‘out of phase’ and an unreliable sound image will be produced. € If your subwoofer has a phase control switch, set it to the plus (+) sign (or 0°). However, the effect you can actually feel when Phase Control is set to ON on this receiver depends on the type of your subwoofer. Set your subwoofer to maximize the effect. It is also recommended you try changing the orientation or the place of your subwoofer. € Set the built-in lowpass filter switch of your subwoofer to OFF. If this cannot be done on your subwoofer, set the cutoff frequency to a higher value. € If the speaker distance is not properly set, you may not have a maximized Phase Control effect. Listening to your system Setting the Audio options There are a number of additional sound settings you can make using the AV ADJUST menu. The defaults, if not stated, are listed in bold. Important • Note that if a setting doesn’t appear in the AV ADJUST menu, it is unavailable due to the current source, settings and status of the receiver. Better sound using Phase Control This receiver’s Phase Control feature uses phase correction measures to make sure your sound source arrives at the listening position in phase, preventing unwanted distortion and/or coloring of the sound. Phase Control technology provides coherent sound reproduction through the use of phase matching for an optimal sound image at your listening position. [. . . ] If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. [. . . ]