Owner's Manual SSP-600 Surround Processor - ClassÃ© Audio

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• The Enter key allows you to select the highlighted item, having the same effect as if you had pressed the button on the LCD touchscreen. • The Zone key brings up the Zone Control menu on the onscreen display, allowing you to make changes to the status, source or the volume of the remote zone. • The Tape monitor key is not a navigation key, per se, but allows you to easily toggle between listening to the selected source and listening to the output of your recording device. If you have a recording device (such as a three-head tape deck) which can play back a recording while it is being made, you will be able to compare the original signal to the recording while you are making it. 4 Input Selection These Up and Down arrow keys will cycle through the active inputs on your SSP-600. If you have inputs you are not using, we suggest deactivating them in order to provide faster, easier access to the inputs you are actually using. (See the section The Menu System for information on how to do this.) 5 F1/F2/F3/F4 keys F1/F2/F3/F4 keys are available for controlling aspects of the SSP-600 not covered by the other buttons on the remote control. You are able to choose what the SSP-600 should do in response to receiving the infrared signal that a particular Fkey has been pressed. The list of possible functions is quite extensive, and is found in the menu system (see the section The Menu System, in this manual). Note: The Fkeys on all Classé remote controls issue the same infrared commands. This saves you from having to be sure you have grabbed the proper remote, since all your Classé remotes will perform the same function for each Fkey. 6 Volume Keys Volume Up, Volume Down, and Mute do what you would expect them to do. 7 Trim Key The Trim key takes you directly to the system trims screen in the menu system. Using the touchscreen or the remote control navigation keys you can adjust the speaker(s) as desired. Adjust the relative balance of the system by using the Enter key on the remote to “press” the appropriate button on the display. 32
Understanding Surround Sound Today’s sophisticated surround sound systems seem to spawn a bewildering array of technologies and acronyms. In this section, we will attempt to give you a basic understanding of what all that jargon means. As a result, you will be better equipped to take advantage of the best that home entertainment has to offer. how many channels? Today’s surround systems are called upon to reproduce soundtracks that were designed to include anything from one to seven separate channels of information. Some examples might include: • watching Casablanca or The Wizard of Oz (both mono movies, having only a single channel of audio information in the soundtrack) • listening to a CD in stereo (only two channels of audio) • watching the original Star Wars in the original Dolby Surround Pro Logic (four channels of information derived from two channels) • watching a modern movie, with a “5.1” soundtrack (meaning five different full-range signals for the front and surround speakers, plus a special “.1” signal of special Low Frequency Effects; for this reason, the “.1” channel is sometimes called the “LFE channel.”) Your new processor handles all these tasks with ease, switching to an appropriate processing mode automatically upon sensing the nature of the incoming signal. However, sometimes it may be up to you to select from among the various signals available. For example, DVDs often contain multiple soundtracks, with varying numbers of channels or even different languages. You must choose the one you would like to hear, using the menu of the DVD itself. For that reason, it helps to have a better understanding of the jargon that is likely to be presented to you in those menus. We’ll cover the most common possibilities for you. matrix or discrete? When movie makers first wanted to expand beyond simple stereo (left and right audio channels only), they had a problem: the entire infrastructure on which they depended was stereo. A company named Dolby Laboratories saved the day by creating a system called Dolby Surround that embedded two extra channels of sound in the existing stereo pair, in such a way that specialized circuitry could retrieve the extra information with reasonable accuracy. This technique, whereby channels are mixed together with the intention of separating them later, is called matrix decoding. The disadvantage of matrix decoding is what you might expect – it is tough to completely and perfectly separate two things that have been mixed together. Once you have baked a cake, it is difficult to get back to the eggs and flour. 33
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