Playing sources
Using the Surround Back
Channel (SB CH)
• Default setting: SB ON (VSX-D812/D912),
SB OFF (VSX-D712)
You can have the receiver automatically
switch to Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES
decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (SB
AUTO), or you can choose to listen to other
kinds of sources (for example, 5.1 encoded
material) with 6.1 encoding (SB ON). With 5.1
encoded sources, a surround back channel
will be generated, but the material may sound
better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi-
nally encoded, in which case you can simply
switch the surround back channel off (SB
OFF).
The table indicates when you will hear the
surround back channel.
SB CH
Type of source
MODE
DTS-ES/Dolby Digital
Matrix encoded
multi-channel sources
AUTO
with 6.1 surround
Dolby Digital/DTS
encoded multi-channel
sources
AUTO
Dolby Digital/DTS
encoded stereo sources,
Stereo sources
AUTO
Analog 2-channel
(stereo) source
AUTO
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STANDARD
PL II MOVIE/
STANDARD
PL II MUSIC/
decoding
PRO LOGIC
ON
ON
ON
ON
•
Press SB CH MODE (front panel)
repeatedly to cycle the surround back
channel options.
Each press cycles through the options as
follows:
SB ON
SB OFF
SB AUTO
• You can't use the surround back channel
if the Surround back speaker setting on
page 45 is set to SB .or SB SW (VSX-
D812/D912 only).
• You can't hear the surround back channel
with DTS 96kHz/24 bit sources.
NEO:6 CINEMA/
NEO:6 MUSIC
ADVANCED SURROUND
All modes
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