Kenwood Sovereign VR-5080 Connection And Setup Manual

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iiiWelcome to the Connection and Setup Guide for your newKenwood audio-video receiver. This manual covers threemodels.The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 offers 3 kinds of 5.1-chan-nel digital surround sound decoding:• Dolby Digital, for the hundreds of currently availableDolby Digital DVDs and LaserDiscs.• DTS, a well-established multichannel format in movietheaters, is available for home theater on LaserDisc andDVD.• MPEG Multichannel, a well-established multichannelformat in movie theaters, is available for home theateron LaserDisc and DVD.The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 also offers 2 kinds of 6.1-channel digital surround sound decoding:• THX Surround EX technology reproduces a surroundback channel from software which has been speciallyencoded with Surround EX.• DTS-ES also creates a 6.1-channel surround environmentby adding the surround back signal. The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 can handle both DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 fea-turing recording of all channels in the digital discreteformat and DTS-ES Matrix 6.1 featuring matrix encod-ing.In addition, the VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 offers the fol-lowing surround features.• DTS-NEO:6: This converts 2-channel signals into 6.1-channel signals by means of a high-accuracy digitalmatrix decoder.• Dolby Pro Logic II: This advanced version of Dolby ProLogic features improved audio quality and a dedicatedmusic mode that reproduces conventional 2-channelmusic in 5.1-channel surround sound.Connecting and Setting Up Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver• THX Mode: Several technologies developed byLucasfilm® that compensate for playing a filmsoundtrack in a small room (such as in a home), ratherthan in a large theater (for which it was originally mixed).The THX Mode compensates for overly bright-soundingsoundtracks, creates a more spacious surround soundenvironment and smooths sound movement fromspeaker to speaker.The VR-5700 is a receiver based on the THX Ultra stan-dard and the VR-5090 and VR-5080 are receivers basedon the THX Select standard. All of these models are cer-tified by Lucasfilm.32-Bit DRIVE III: Exclusive Kenwood technology that repro-duces digital signals with ultra high resolution. Incorporat-ing a high-performance DSP, 32-Bit DRIVE III significantlyreduces digital distortion to reproduce stereo audio withextreme faithfulness to the original signal.HDCD®: This is a new format of high-resolution recording.The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 is capable of reproducingCDs recorded in the HDCD format with high resolutionand wide dynamic range.Use it to connect all your current audio and video com-ponents—the VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 has a variety ofconnection jacks so you can customize your entertainmentsetup.It also includes Kenwood’s remarkable LCD Remote Con-trol unit.Manufactured under license from Digital Theater Systems,Inc. US Pat. No. 5,451,942, 5,956,674, 5,974,380, 5,978,762and other world-wide patents issued and pending. “DTS”,“DTS-ES Extended Surround” and “Neo:6” are trademarksof Digital Theater Systems, Inc. © 1996, 2000 Digital The-ater Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories."Dolby", "Pro Logic", "Surround EX " and the double-D sym-bol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential un-published works. © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories. All rightsreserved.Lucasfilm and THX are registered trademarks of LucasfilmLtd.©Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Surround EX is ajointly developed technology of THX and Dolby Laborato-ries Inc. and is a trademark of Dolby. Used under authori-zation.