Manual Pioneer VSX-329 (page 4 of 41) (English)

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Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read

through these operating instructions so you will know how to

operate your model properly.

Before you start

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Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Flow of settings on the receiver

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01 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

02 Connecting your equipment

Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hints on the speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Digital audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Standard RCA video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About video outputs connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting a TV and playback components . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting your component with no HDMI

terminal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

03 Basic Setup (VSX-424 only)

Before setting up (For Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Changing the TV format setting (For Australia) . . . . . . . 19

Canceling the Auto Power Down (For Europe, Russia and

U.K.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Automatically setting up for surround sound

(MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC

setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

04 Basic playback

Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Selecting the audio input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Playing an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Playing back files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Switches between the iPod controls and the receiver

controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Changing the radio frequency step (For Australia). . . . . 27

An introduction to RDS (For Europe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Searching for RDS programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

05 Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the Advanced surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ

(VSX-424 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Better sound using Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

06 Home Menu

Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Manual speaker setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

X.Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Speaker Distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The Auto Power Down menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The HDMI Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

07 Additional information

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Important information regarding the HDMI

connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

iPod messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

USB messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

About iPod/iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Resetting the main unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Cleaning the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Specifications (VSX-424) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Specifications (VSX-329) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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