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The original was posted on /r/hometheater by /u/alvik on 2023-08-18 17:10:44+00:00.

Alright, so my biggest confusion around the Cinema 60 is around sound modes. I upgraded from the cheapest Atmos receiver Onkyo makes, which I’d just leave on “auto” mode for surround decoding. Worked fine, stereo stuff came out of the 2ch speakers and sub, surround came out of all 5.1 speakers.

When I set the Cinema 60 to Auto, it wants to make all sources surround sound. It’s fine for tv shows, but really annoying if I’m listening to music, because now most of the content is coming through the center speaker, ruining the imaging. Setting it to “direct” mode plays everything as is, again fine for movies and shows because it uses all the speakers, but ignores the subwoofer for 2ch content. And afaik it bypasses room correction in this mode.

Tl:Dr - do I really have to constantly manage the sound mode with this expensive receiver? Or is there a setting that plays content through the appropriate channels, with a subwoofer, with room correction?