Onkyo TX-SR501E instruction manual Playing Your AV Components, Selecting the Source AV Component

Playing Your AV Components

This chapter explains how you can play your AV components through the TX-SR501/TX-SR501E.

See pages 10–19 for information on connecting your AV components to the TX-SR501/TX-SR501E.

										MASTER VOLUME
STANDBY/ON
								DIRECT	STEREO
								SURROUND	DSP
	STANDBY							PRESET/ADJUST
A SPEAKERS B				SUBWOOFER
	DISPLAY	DIMMER DIGITAL INPUT MODE			MEMORY FM MODE	TUNING	SPEAKER ADJUST		AUDIO ADJUST
					CLEAR
PHONES	AUDIO	DVD	VIDEO 1	VIDEO 2	VIDEO 3	TAPE	TUNER	C D		VIDEO 3 INPUT
	SELECTOR
			VCR						S VIDEO	VIDEOL AUDIO R
SPEAKER	AUDIO				Input selector					MASTER

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MASTER VOLUME

Remote controller

To adjust the volume, use the MAS- TER VOLUME control, or the remote controller’s VOLUME []

[ ] buttons.

The volume can typically be set to MIN, 1 though 79, or MAX.

A&B SELECTOR buttons VOLUME

	CABLE/SAT
SP A	CD/DVD
	Press [RCVR/
SP B
	TAPE] to select
	RCVR mode.
	CH +
CH SEL	LEVEL /

Using Digital Inputs

The digital input assigned to the input source (see page 24) has priority over that input source’s analog input. To use the analog input, set the input source’s format to Analog (see the following section).

The format of the digital input signal appears on the display, as shown: DOLBY DIGITAL, DTS, DTS-ES, or PCM (ste- reo).

AUDIO SEL
Input selec-
tor buttons	VOLUME	/

DOLBY DIGITAL DTS PCM

DTS-ES

Selecting the Source AV Component

1		Use the following input selector
DVD VIDEO 1	VIDEO 2	VIDEO 3 buttons to select the AV compo-
VCR		nent: [DVD], [VIDEO 1], [VIDEO 2],
		[VIDEO 3], [TAPE], or [CD].
TAPE	TUNER
		C D
		The name of the selected source appears
		on the display, as shown.
		A & B speakers indicators	Volume
Remote controller

Selected input source

If you’re using a MiniDisc recorder, you can set the display to show “MD” instead of “TAPE.” See page 25.

Other Functions:

See page 32 for functions that you can use while listening to your AV components.

Listening Modes:

See page 34 for information on the listening modes that you can use while listening to your AV components.

Remote Controller:

See pages 40, 41 for information on using the TX-SR501/ TX-SR501E’s remote controller to control your other AV components.

Setting the Input Signal Format

With this function you can choose which signal format (ana- log or digital) you want to use for AV components that are connected to a digital input and analog input. When an input source is assigned to an OPTICAL or COAXIAL digital input (page 24), the digital input has priority over the corre-

2 A SPEAKERS B

Remote controller

Use the SPEAKERS [A] and [B] but- tons, or the remote controller’s [SP A] and [SP B] buttons to select the speaker set that you want to use.

Press the remote controller’s [RCVR/ TAPE] button to select RCVR mode before using the remote controller.

The A and B speaker indicators show whether each speaker set is on or off.

sponding analog input. However, with this function you can override that and force the TX-SR501/TX-SR501E to use the analog input. In addition, you can set the DVD input source to use the multi-channel inputs.

1			Press the input selector button for
			VIDEO 3 the source that you want to set:
DVD	VIDEO 1	VIDEO 2
			[DVD], [VIDEO 1], [VIDEO 2],
	VCR		[VIDEO 3], [TAPE], or [CD].
	TAPE	TUNER
			C D
			The name of the selected source appears
			on the display.
2	AUDIO		Press the [AUDIO SELECTOR] but-
	SELECTOR

3	Start playback on the selected AV
	component.

ton.

The current format appears on the display for about three seconds.

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