OPERATION 25
OPERATION
Volume Control
• Adjust the volume to a comfortable level using the
front panel
Volume Control $ or remote Volume
Up/Down
r buttons.
• To temporarily silence all speaker outputs, press the
Mute Button . This will interrupt the output
to all speakers and the headphone jack, but it will not
affect any recording or dubbing that may be in
progress. When the system is muted, the word
MUTE will flash in the on-screen display and the
Upper Display Line F. Press the Mute Button
again to return to normal operation.
• The DPR 1001 may be set so that the tone controls
are either activated or "flat", which de-activates them.
To change the tone mode setting, press the
Tone
Control Button
and the current tone control
status will be displayed in the on-screen display and
Lower Display Line B. TONE OUT indicates
that the controls are not in the circuit path, while
TONE IN tells you that they are active. To switch
modes, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons n
within five seconds of pressing the Tone Control
Button
. Each button press will switch the mode.
• To change the actual tone mode settings, press the
Tone Control Button . If TONE OUT
appears, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons n
to activate the tone controls. With TONE IN in
the displays, press the
Tone Control Button
again within five seconds and TREBLE
MODE
will appear in the displays. Press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons n until the desired
amount of treble boost appears. To adjust the bass
boost, press the
Tone Control Button so that
BASS MODE appears and once again press
the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons n to enter the
desired amount of bass boost. When all adjustments
are complete, wait five seconds and the tone control
settings will time out and the unit will return to
normal operation.
NOTE: Both the Treble and Bass controls are boosts,
which means that you will see only positive numerical
indications when making tone control adjustments.
• For private listening, plug the 1/4" stereo phone plug
from a pair of stereo headphones into the front panel
Headphone Jack
Ó
. When the headphone’s plug
is connected, the word
HEADPHONE will scroll
once across the
Main Information Display ^ and
all speakers will be silenced. When the headphone
plug is removed, the audio feed to the speakers will
be restored.
Surround Mode Selection
One of the most important features of the DPR 1001
is its ability to reproduce a full multichannel surround
sound field from digital sources, analog matrix surround-
encoded programs and standard stereo programs.
Selection of a surround mode is based on personal taste,
as well as the type of program source material being
used. For example, motion pictures or TV programs bear-
ing the logo of one of the major surround-encoding
processes, such as Dolby Surround or DTS Stereo, may
be played in the Dolby Digital, Surround EX,
™
Dolby
Pro Logic II – Movie, DTS Neo:6 or Logic 7 surround
modes, depending on the source material.
NOTE: Once a program has been encoded with matrix
surround information, it retains the surround information
as long as the program is broadcast in stereo. Thus,
movies with surround sound may be decoded via any of
the analog surround modes such as Dolby Pro Logic II –
Movie, Logic 7 Cinema or DTS Neo:6 Cinema, when
they are broadcast via conventional TV stations, cable,
pay-TV and satellite transmission. In addition, a growing
number of programs are produced with Dolby Surround
encoding. You may view a list of these programs at the
Dolby Laboratories Web site at www.dolby.com.
Even when a program is not listed as carrying inten-
tional surround information, you may find that the
Dolby Pro Logic II, Logic 7 Enhance (available only in
the 5.1 configuration), DTS Neo:6, VMAx, Hall or
Theater modes may deliver enveloping surround pre-
sentations through the use of the natural information
present in all stereo recordings. However, for stereo, but
not surround programs, we suggest that you experiment
with the other modes.
Surround modes may be selected using either the front
panel controls or the remote. To select a surround
mode from the front panel, first press the
Surround
Mode Selector
3. This will cycle through the avail-
able surround mode groupings.
Once the desired surround mode group name appears,
press the
Surround Select Button 4 to cycle
through the choices that are available within that mode
group. The choices will vary based on the speaker con-
figuration and input source. Some modes may be used
only when seven speaker channels are available (e.g.,
Dolby Digital EX, Logic 7/7.1 and DTS-ES 6.1), while
others (Dolby Digital, Logic 7/5.1 and DTS) are only
available when five speaker channels are configured.
To select a surround mode using the remote control,
first determine which overall surround group the mode
is in. The groupings are the same as when changing
modes using the front panel controls. For example, to
select Dolby Pro Logic II – Music you will need to press
the
Dolby Surround Mode Select Button or to
select VMAx you will use the
DSP Surround Mode
Selector
g. Using the button that matches the sur-
round group, press the
Dolby Surround Mode Select
Button
, DTS Digital Mode Select Button ,
Logic 7 Mode Select Button h, DTS Neo:6
Mode Select Button
, DSP Surround Mode
Selector
g or Stereo Mode Select Button .
Depending on the current speaker configuration (5.1 or
6.1/7.1), each subsequent press of the button will dis-
play the modes available in that grouping. When the
desired mode name appears in the on-screen display
and
Lower Display Line B, simply wait five seconds
for the setting to be entered into memory. When the
on-screen display times out, the unit has returned to
normal operation, and the mode name will remain in the
Lower Display Line B.
As the surround modes change, an amber LED will light
next to the current mode in the
Surround Mode
Indicators
* list on the front panel.
The Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1, DTS-ES Matrix and
DTS-ES Discrete modes may only be selected when a
digital input is in use. In addition, when a digital source
is present, the DPR 1001 will automatically select and
switch to the correct mode, regardless of the mode that
has been previously selected. For more information on
selecting digital sources, see the following section.
To listen to a program in traditional two-channel stereo,
using the front left and front right speakers only (plus the
subwoofer, if installed and configured), press the
Stereo
Mode Select Button
until SURR OFF
appears in the Lower Display Line B.
Digital Audio Playback
Digital audio is a major advancement over analog sur-
round processing systems such as Dolby Pro Logic. It
delivers five discrete channels: left front, center, right front,
left surround and right surround. Each channel reproduces
full frequency range (20Hz to 20kHz) and offers dramati-
cally improved dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratios.
In addition, digital systems have the capability to deliver an
additional channel that is specifically devoted to low-fre-
quency information. This is the “.1” channel referred to
when you see these systems described as “5.1,” “6.1” or
“7.1”. The bass channel is separate from the other chan-
nels, but since it is intentionally bandwidth-limited, sound
designers have given it that unique designation.
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is a standard part of DVD, and is available on
specially encoded LD discs and satellite broadcasts and it
is a part of the high-definition television (HDTV) system.
Dolby Digital bitstreams may be encoded in a variety of
channel configurations, ranging from traditional two-channel
stereo to the latest Dolby Digital Surround EX technology.
Once the DPR 1001’s processor recognizes the Dolby
Digital bitstream, a variety of surround modes may be
applied, as indicated in the previous section.
