Yamaha YHT-493 Owner's Manual

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En 28PLAYBACKEnjoying sound field programsSound field programs■ Category: MOVIESound field programs optimized for viewing video sources such as movies, TV programs, and games.■ Category: MUSICThis sound field is suitable when listening to music sources such as CDs.in the table indicates the sound field program for CINEMA DSP.Standard This program creates a sound field emphasizing the surround feeling without disturbing theoriginal acoustic positioning of multi-channel audio such as Dolby Digital and DTS. It hasbeen designed with the concept of an ideal movie theater, in which the audience issurrounded by beautiful reverberations from the left, right and rear.Spectacle This program represents the spectacular feeling of large-scale movie productions. Itreproduces a broad theater sound field that matches cinemascope and wider-screen movieswith an excellent dynamic range providing everything from very small sound effects tolarge, impressive sounds.Sci-Fi This program clearly reproduces the finely elaborated sound design of the latest sciencefiction and special effects-featuring movies. You can enjoy a variety of cinematographicallycreated virtual spaces reproduced with clear separation between dialog, sound effects andbackground music.Adventure This program is ideal for precisely reproducing the sound design of action and adventuremovies. The sound field restrains reverberations but puts emphasis on reproducing apowerful space expanded widely to the left and right. The reproduced depth is alsorestrained relatively to ensure the separation between audio channels and the clarity of thesound.Drama This sound field features stable reverberations that match a wide range of movie genres fromserious dramas to musicals and comedies. The reverberations are modest but offer anoptimum 3D feeling, reproducing effects tones and background music softly but cubicallyaround clear words and center positioning in a way that does not fatigue the listener evenafter long hours of viewing.Mono Movie This program is provided for reproducing monaural video sources such as a classic movie inan atmosphere of a good old movie theater. The program produces the optimum expansionand reverberation to the original audio to create a comfortable space with a certain sounddepth.Sports This program allows the listeners to enjoy stereo sport broadcasts and studio varietyprograms with enriched live feeling. In sports broadcasts, the voices of the commentator andsportscaster are positioned clearly at the center while the atmosphere of the stadium expandsin an optimal space to offer the listeners a feeling of presence in the stadium.Action Game This sound field is suitable for action games such as car racing and FPS games. It usesreflection data that limits the effects range per channel in order to offer a powerful playingenvironment that makes the listener feel as if they are right there by enhancing variouseffects tones while maintaining a clear sense of directions.Roleplaying Game This sound field is suitable for role-playing and adventure games. It combines the soundfield effects for movies and the sound field designs for “Action Game” to represent the depthand 3D feeling of the field during play, while offering movie-like surround effects in themovie scenes in the game.Hall in Munich This sound field simulates a concert hall with approximately 2500 seats in Munich, usingstylish wood for the interior finishing as normal standards for European concert halls. Fine,beautiful reverberations spread richly, creating a calming atmosphere. The listener’s virtualseat is at the center left of the arena.Hall in Vienna This is an approximately 1700-seat, middle-sized concert hall with a shoebox shape that istraditional in Vienna. Pillars and ornate carvings create extremely complex reflections fromall around the audience, producing a very full, rich sound.Chamber This program creates a relatively wide space with a high ceiling like an audience hall in apalace. It offers pleasant reverberations that are suitable for courtly music and chambermusic.Cellar Club This program simulates a live house with a low ceiling and homey atmosphere. A realistic,live sound field features powerful sound as if the listener is in a row in front of a small stage.The Roxy Theatre This is the sound field of a rock music live house in Los Angeles, with approximately 460seats. The listener’s virtual seat is at the center left of the hall.The Bottom Line This is the sound field at stage front in The Bottom Line, a famous New York jazz club once.The floor can seat 300 people to the left and right in a sound field offering real and vibrantsound.Music Video This sound field offers an image of a concert hall for live performance of pop, rock and jazzmusic. The listener can indulge oneself in a hot live space thanks to the presence sound fieldthat emphasizes the vividness of vocals and solo play and the beat of rhythm instruments,and to the surround sound field that reproduces the space of a big live hall.