Pioneer VSX-409RDS User Manual

To really appreciate what the VSX-409RDS can do, sit back and experience a movie encoded in Dolby Digital or
Dolby Pro Logic with five speaker surround sound creating theater-like sound effects in your living room. When
choosing software, look out for the 

  mark on DVD discs,  laser discs, and video tapes

(sometimes, unmarked software is also recorded in Dolby Pro Logic).
To enjoy Dolby Digital surround sound from DVD discs, you'll need to have connected your DVD player (or Dolby
Digital decoder) to the receiver's 5.1 channel inputs (see page 9), and set the receiver to DVD 5.1 CH input
mode.
Many video tapes feature Dolby Surround/Pro Logic these days. The VSX-409RDS takes advantage of this to
provide dramatic and realistic surround sound. The effect can be further enhanced by choosing a Pro Logic with
DSP mode. Follow the steps on this page when playing Dolby Surround or Dolby Pro Logic material.

When using any of these modes, it's really important that your speakers are set up correctly (see p.11-12), and
that you've worked through the steps in Setting Up for Surround Sound on pages 13-15.

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Pressing repeatedly changes the Pro Logic mode in the following
sequence:

This starts the process of setting the effect level.

You can adjust the effect level within an range of 10–90 (the default
settinig is 50).

• You need to input mode/distance/level settings specifically

for your Pro Logic mode (see p. 13-15).

• If you turn the speakers off PRO LOGIC goes off as well.

When you turn the speakers back on, PRO LOGIC will NOT
go back on.

• If you try and turn PRO LOGIC on when the speakes are

off, SP OFF will flash on the display, informing you that you
can't turn on PRO LOGIC when the speakers are off.

• You can't use the tone  controls, the DIRECT function with

PRO LOGIC mode.

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