Owner`s manual

5 Minute Guide

Introduction to Home Theater

You are probably used to using stereo equipment to listen to music, but may not be used to

home theater systems that give you many more options (such as surround sound) when

listening to soundtracks.

Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio channels to create a surround sound effect,

making you feel like you are in the middle of the action or concert. The surround sound you

get from a home theater system depends not only on the speakers you have set up in your

room, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.

DVD-Video has become the basic source material for home theater due to its size, quality,

and ease of use. Depending on the disc, you can have up to seven channels, each being sent

to a different speaker in your system. This is what creates a surround sound effect and gives

you the feeling of ‘being there’.

This receiver will automatically decode Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround DVD-Video

discs, according to your speaker setup. In most cases, you will not have to make changes for

realistic surround sound, but other possibilities (like listening to a CD with multi-channel

surround sound) are explained in “Playing Sources” on page 29.

Note:

Depending on your DVD player or source discs, you may only get digital 2 channel stereo

and analog sound. In this case, the listening mode must be set to Standard (it should already

be set—see page 31 if you need to do this) if you want multi-channel surround sound.