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Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ventilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Automatically setting up for surround sound

(MCACC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC

Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)

player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Playing a source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

03 Connecting up

About cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Video cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting digital audio components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting analog audio components . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting multichannel analog components . . . . . 17

Connecting video components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting to the front panel video terminal. . . . . . 18

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

AM loop antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Hints on speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

AC outlet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Power cord caution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Operating other Pioneer components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . 30

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the Home THX modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Neo:6 Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using the surround back channel

(Extended mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using the Virtual Surround Back mode

(VirtualSB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using Loudness and Midnight listening. . . . . . . . . . . 38

Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Playing other sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

06 The System Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the System Setup

menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Fine Channel Distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Surround Back Speaker Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

07 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Improving FM stereo sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

08 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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