Surround playback

Press STANDARD, MOVIE, or GAME on the remote control to switch to surround playback. Surround sound can be heard not only from horizontal directions, but also from varying heights. Select your preferred sound mode according to the content viewed or listened to.

NOTE
  • The sound bar uses the following technologies to achieve a full surround sound experience.
  • Dolby Atmos: An object-based surround technology. Going beyond traditional channel-based approaches, it controls content audio as an assembly of many objects (a combination of audio information and information about sound location changes). This allows for more precise sound control and helps to reproduce sound that is more faithful to the intentions of content creators by taking advantage of the characteristics of the sound bar.
  • Height speakers: A dedicated speaker unit built in the top of the sound bar to output sound from varying heights.
  • Audio from BLUETOOTH or NET (such as streaming services) is played in stereo regardless of the sound mode setting.
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Switching the sound characteristics setting of MOVIE

The sound characteristics can be specified when the sound mode is set to MOVIE.

Press and hold MOVIE on the remote control for at least five seconds to switch between Setting 1 and Setting 2.

Setting 1: Ideal sound characteristics designed by Yamaha

Setting 2: Sound characteristics for the Dolby Atmos decoder

Default setting: Setting 1

When the setting is switched, the indicators on the front of the sound bar show the selected setting as follows:

NOTE
  • When the Clear Voice function is enabled, audio is always played with the sound characteristics of Setting 1.