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Using PowerTouch

How Do I Adjust the Surround?

How Do I Adjust the Surround modes?

You can experience true home-theater sound with your Kenwood Audio-

Video Receiver. This receiver incorporates several listen modes to let you

enjoy surround sound with a wide variety of program sources. Each pro-

duces multiple channels of surround-sound, but each does it differently.

What are THX?

• THX: Movie soundtracks are mixed in special movie theaters called

dubbing stages and are designed to be played back in movie theaters

with similar equipment and conditions. The soundtrack created for

movie theaters is then transferred directly onto Laserdisc, VHS tape,

DVD, etc., and is not changed for playback in a small home theater

environment.

THX engineers developed patented technologies to accurately trans-

late the sound from the movie theater environment into the home,

correcting the tonal and spatial errors that occur. On the VR-5900,

when the THX mode is on, the THX technologies are automatically

added after the decoded signal.

Movies which have been encoded in Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, Dolby

Pro Logic, Stereo and Mono can all benefit from activating the THX

technologies. THX should be activated only when watching movies

which were mixed for playback in large movie theater environments.

THX need not be activated for music, movies that were made espe-

cially for television or shows such as sports programming, talk shows,

etc. This is because they were mixed in a small room environment.

• THX Surround EX: Lucas Film and Dolby Laboratories jointly devel-

oped the Dolby Digital Surround EX system, which is a cinema sur-

round sound system featuring improved special representation and

acoustic imaging of surround channels.

To allow the home theater environment to reproduce this surround

sound by translating the above technology, the VR-5900 incorporates

a THX Surround EX decoder.

This circuit features merges the matrix decoding technology with the

Lucas Film's proprietary THX processor technology and adds the sur-

round back (SB) channels to offer clearer acoustic positioning on the

rear, spatial expression and the feeling of movement between the front

and rear.

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