Manual Pioneer VSX-S300-S (page 4 of 36) (English)

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Contents

Before you start

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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

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

Flow of settings on the receiver

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

01 Controls and displays

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

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

02 Connecting your equipment

Determining the speakers’ application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Connecting the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connect the surround back or front height speakers

. . . 11

Switching the speaker terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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

Analog audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Standard RCA video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

About video outputs connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Connecting a TV and playback components . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal . . 14

Connecting optional Bluetooth

ADAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting to the front panel audio mini jack. . . . . . . . . 15

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

03 Basic Setup

Canceling the Auto Power Down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Canceling the demo display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC). . 16

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup . . 17

04 Basic playback

Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Bluetooth

ADAPTER for Wireless Enjoyment of

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Wireless music play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pairing the Bluetooth ADAPTER and Bluetooth

wireless technology device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth wireless

technology device with Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

05 Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using the Advanced surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using the Ecology mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Setting the Up Mix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

06 The Home Menu

Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Speaker System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

X.OVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

The Pre Out Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Input Assign menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Auto Power Down menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The FL Demo Mode menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

07 Control with HDMI function

Making Control with HDMI connections . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

HDMI Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Before using synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

About synchronized operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

About connections with a product of a different brand

that supports the Control with HDMI function . . . . . . 32

Cautions on the Control with HDMI function . . . . . . . . . 32

08 Additional information

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Important information regarding the HDMI

connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Cleaning the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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