Yamaha RX-V1600 Owner's Manual

Press STRAIGHT (EFFECT) on the front 
panel or on the remote control again to turn 
the sound effect back on.
STRAIGHT disappears from the front panel display.

■ Virtual CINEMA DSP
Virtual CINEMA DSP allows you to enjoy the CINEMA 
DSP programs without surround speakers. It creates 
virtual speakers to reproduce a natural sound field.
If you set SUR. L/R SP to NONE (see page 78), Virtual 
CINEMA DSP activates automatically whenever you 
select a CINEMA DSP sound field program.

Virtual CINEMA DSP is ineffective even if SUR. L/R SP is set to 
NONE (see page 78) in the following cases:

– If MULTI CH INPUT is selected as the input source.
– If headphones are connected to the PHONES jack.

■ Playing video sources in the 

You can combine images from a video source with sound 
from an audio source. For example, you can listen to 
classical music while enjoying beautiful scenery from the 
video source on the video monitor.

If you want to enjoy an audio source connected to the 
MULTI CH INPUT jacks together with a video source, first select 
the video source and then press MULTI CH INPUT on the front 
panel or on the remote control.

■ Selecting audio input modes
This unit comes with a variety of input jacks. You can 
select the type of input signal you want to use.

This feature is not available if no digital input jacks (OPTICAL, 
COAXIAL and HDMI) are assigned. In addition, HDMI is not 
available as an input mode if HDMI IN 1 and HDMI IN 2 jacks 
are not assigned. Use I/O ASSIGNMENT in INPUT MENU to 
reassign the respective input jacks (see page 83).

AUTO
Automatically selects input signals in the following 
order:
1) HDMI
2) Digital signals

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3) Analog signals

Selects only HDMI signals. If no HDMI signals are 
input, no sound is output.

COAX/OPT
Selects digital signals input at the OPTICAL or 
COAXIAL jacks. Use if HDMI signals are also being 
input.

ANALOG
Selects only analog signals. If no analog signals are 
input, no sound is output.

A . S E L :     A U T O

I N P U T :     D V D