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Obtaining the Surround Effect

Placement of Speakers and Selecting the

CENTER MODE for Dolby Surround Sound

The Dolby Pro Logic Surround Decoder has the same

functions for playback as movie theaters and gives a theater

like experience in your listerung room, naturally reproducing

the audio sound field.

The STR-D615 and STR-D515 incorporate a decoder which

reproduces the specially encoded surround sound of Dolby

Surround video programs.

In the Dolby Surround mode, select the speaker operation

mode according to your speaker configuration by pressing

the CENTER MODE button. Each time the CENTER MODE

button is pressed, the mode and the display are changed in

the following order;

[-»► PHANTOM —*> 3 CH —NORMAL —WIDE

□

PHANTOM mode

Select this mode when you play back a Dolby Surround

program source without using a center speaker. The sound

of the center channel is output from the front (L and R)

speakers.

3 CH (3 Channel LOGIC) mode

Select this mode when you play back a Dolby Surround

program source only with the front and center speakers. The

sound of the rear channel is output from the front (L and R)

speakers.

NORMAL mode

Select this mode if you use small center speaker. The bass

sound of the center channel is output from the front

speakers, as a small speaker cannot produce enough bass.

WIDE mode

Select this mode if you use a medium to large center speaker.

Note

The Dolby Pro Logic Surround decoder is a system to decode

the software carrying the DOI^S^^^mark.

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