Contents | Pioneer S-HTD340 manual

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Please read through these operating instructions so that you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them in a safe place for future reference.

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Putting the batteries in the remote control. . 7 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Disc / content format playback

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 DVD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 PC-created disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . 9 Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . . 9 About WMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 JPEG file compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

02 Connecting up

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Wall-mounting the surround speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting to your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting using the S-video output . . . . 14 Connecting using the component video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Listening to TV audio through this

system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using this unit with a Pioneer plasma display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using the SR+ mode with a Pioneer

plasma display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting the supplied antennas. . . . . . . 18 Assembling the loop antenna . . . . . . . . . 18 AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting the power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

03 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the Room Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Setting up the remote to control your TV . . 28 Using the on-screendisplays . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Resume and Last Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Changing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 DVD-Video disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Video CD PBC menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Improving poor FM reception . . . . . . . . . 35 Memorizing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Listening to other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

05 Listening to your system

About the listening modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings . . . . . . 38 Using the Advanced Surround effects . . . . 39 Using Front Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Adjusting the Advanced and Front Surround effect level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Enhancing dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Listening with a virtual surround back speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using Quiet and Midnight listening

modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . 42 Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42