Pioneer VSA-AX10 Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV, Digital Connections, DVD player

Quick Start Guide Part1

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.

1Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV

In order to use Dolby Digital, MPEG or DTS soundtracks you need to hook up your DVD player with digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection, you don’t need to do both. The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some DVD players only have one type of digital terminal you need to figure out which yours has and hook it up to the appropriate terminal on the Amplifier. In order to do this you will need the proper cable. For coaxial connections you can use a regular Phono video cord or the specially-made coaxial cords, they have the same type of plugs. For optical connections you will need a special optical cable which you can buy at your local stereo store. For more detail on cords/cables see page 25. You should also hook up your DVD player with analog audio connections. Use regular Phono stereo cords for these connections. Also hook up the video connection on your DVD player and your TV to this Amplifier. For your TV it's easiest to use a regular composite Phono video cord, as shown below. It is important that you hook up your TV (or monitor) in order to see a video image as well as the on screen displays (OSDs) shown by this Amplifier (for more see page 18).

Digital Connections

Some DVD players have both coaxial and optical terminals, but there is is no need to connect both. If your DVD player has a coaxial terminal (not a PCM-only output) for the audio out hook it up using this terminal. Follow the diagram below using DIGITAL IN 1. This is the best scenario, as you will be able to follow the default settings of this amplifier and won't need to assign the digital inputs.

If your DVD player only has an optical terminal for the audio output you can hook it up using one of the DIGITAL IN terminals between 4-7 (for example, DIGITAL IN 4). In this case, you will need to assign the digital input (which means tell the amplifier which input you used for your DVD digital audio). See page 13 for this.

QUICK START GUIDE

Phono video cord

4		MONITOR
	(SAT)	OUT

IN

	Phono stereo cord		ANALOG
			STEREO
		R	R
		L	L
R	L		VIDEO
			VIDEO
			OUT
	DVD	IN
	/LD
	IN

DVD player

IN 3	(CD)
IN 2	(TV)

1(DVD

IN/LD)

2RF(DVD

IN/LD) (For LD)

ASSIGNABLE

DIGITAL

PCM/2DIGITAL /DTS/MPEG

	2
	OUT
		PHONO	R	AUDIO L
	1
	OUT	IN
7	(CD-R/	CD				AUDIO
						POWER AMP
	TAPE1	IN				IN
IN	/MD)				R	L
6	(VCR2)	TUNER				FRONT
		IN			R	L
IN
5	(VCR1	OUT				CENTER
		REC
IN	/DVR)	CD-R/
4		TAPE1				SUB W.
		/MD
	(SAT)	IN				PRE OUT
IN		PLAY			1	2
					(Single)	SUR-
IN 3	(CD)	OUT				ROUND
		REC
		TAPE2			R	L
		MONITOR				SUR-
IN 2	(TV)	IN				ROUND
						BACK
		PLAY			R	L (Single)
	(DVD	FRONT			SUB W.	CENTER
IN 1
	/LD)	R		L
		SUR-				SUR-
2RF	(DVD	ROUND				ROUND
IN	/LD)	R		L	R	BACK
	(For LD)					L (Single)
ASSIGNABLE				MULTI CH INPUT

		OUT				·	Å	ª			DIGITAL
		MONITOR
OUT	IN					L			AC OUTLET		OUTPUT
	CONTROL	MONITOR			Phono video cord
	DVD	OUT
						FRONT
			IN		AM LOOP	R
	/LD	IN	1	Y	ANTENNA
	IN		Y	MONITOR	ANTENNA
	TV			OUT	FM
		IN
	IN		PB		75Ω UNBAL
				PB		CENTER
	SAT	IN									(not a PCM-only
	IN		2	3		L				AC IN
	OUT	OUT
			PR	PR
			IN	IN
	VCR1		Y	Y		SUR-		SPEAKERS			output)
	/DVR		PB	PB
	IN	IN				ROUND
						R
	OUT	OUT						ª	ı	·
	VCR2		PR	PR
		IN		COMPONENT VIDEO		L	(Single)			L
	IN										You only need to make
	OUT	OUT				SUR-
						ROUND
						BACK
	VCR3					R				R	one DIGITAL connection.
R	AUDIO L	VIDEO	S2 VIDEO	RS-232C
	IN	IN
					coaxial cord

optical cord

VIDEO INPUT

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