Pioneer VSX-C100-S No Frills Setup, Hook up your DVD player, speakers, subwoofer and TV

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Quick Start Guide

No Frills Setup

This receiver was designed with the easiest possible setup in mind so if you just want to hook up your equipment and start enjoying quality home theater movies follow the four steps below and use these easy settings on the VSX-C100/ C100-S. In most cases you can leave the receiver in the default settings.

Default Settings:

Speaker Setting: Automatically sensed by the receiver

Input Setting: DVD

Signal Select: AUTO

Listening Mode: AUTO

Sound Mode: NATURAL

1) Hook up your DVD player, speakers, subwoofer and TV.

Connect your DVD player to this unit using either the coaxial digital terminal or the optical digital terminals, depending on which type of digital terminal your DVD has. The quality of these two types of connection is the same so it’s simply a matter of matching like with like, and you don’t need to do both. It is easiest, however, if you follow this receiver’s default settings and connect your DVD player to coaxial terminal. If your DVD player does not have an coaxial terminal, use one of the optical terminal to hook it up to this receiver. (In this case you need to assign the DVD function to that terminal. See p.33 in order to do this.) Follow the diagram below to hook up your DVD player to either the coaxial or optical terminal(s). Then, hook up the speakers you want to use with this receiver. This receiver can be used with just two speakers but it’s better to have five speakers to get accurate surround sound. See pages 18-19 for more details on connecting your speakers. Next, hook up your powered subwoofer, if you have one. For all speakers make sure to connect the positive (+) and negative (–) terminals on the receiver and speakers with the same wire (positive to positive, negative to negative).

Before hooking up your speakers affix the color-coded sticker with the appropriate name (for example, “FRONT R”) to the speaker wire so you always know which speaker that wire is connected to.

While pressing down the speaker tab push the speaker wire into the terminal and release speaker terminal tab.

T V/

T V/

 

SAT

SAT

 

(DVD)

IN

 

OPT1

 

 

DVR /

DVR/

 

VCR

VCR

 

OPT2

IN

 

 

 

DVD

DVD

 

( T V /

 

SAT)

IN

 

COA X

R

L

 

DIGITAL IN

 

AUDIO

1

MONITOR

OUT

2

F M UNBAL75 AM LOOP

ANTENNA

R

L

DVR /

 

VCR

 

OUT

 

VIDEO AUDIO

R

SUB

WOOFER

OUT

FRONT

SPEAKERS

SURROUND

 

AC IN

L CENTER R

 

L

IN OUT

CONTROL

Optical cable

Coaxial cable

 

(sold separately)

 

(sold sepa-

 

Audio cord

Speaker wire

rately, don’t

(sold separately)

(sold separately)

pinch or bend

 

 

cable sharply)

 

 

LINE LEVEL

DIGITAL AUDIO OUT

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

DVD Player

(DV-353, etc.)

When you’re hooking up your subwoofer make sure its power cord is disconnected.

Front R

(R)

Powered Subwoofer (SW)

Front L

Center

Surround R

Surround L

(L)

(C)

(RS)

(LS)

If you only hook up two speakers set the Listening mode to one of the modes for two channel outputs.

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Contents VSX-C100VSX-C100-S For U.S. model For Canadian modelImportant Safety Instructions TWO Voltage Selector Switches multi-voltage model only Operating Environment H045 EnFeatures Contents Quick Start Guide Home Theater The BasicsYour Home System Source MaterialNo Frills Setup Default SettingsFront R Powered Subwoofer SW Hook up your DVD player, speakers, subwoofer and TVTo wall TV outlet Power cord Advanced/Customized Settings Checking the Supplied Accessories Installing the ReceiverWhen Making Cable Connections Introductory InformationLoading the Batteries Operating Range Remote Control UnitMaintenance of External Surfaces Coaxial Cords/Optical Cables Connecting Your EquipmentAudio/Video Cords Why you need an analog connection as well as a digital one Connecting a DVD Player & TVConnecting Your Equipment Connecting a Digital Tuner/Set Top Box Connecting a TV with an Internal Digital Tuner Connecting Video ComponentsConnecting Your Equipment FrontConnecting Speakers Speaker terminalsView of speaker set up Hints on Speaker PlacementOverhead view of speaker set up Connecting Antennas Using External AntennasOperating other Pioneer Components with this Unit’s Sensor Plugging in the ReceiverDisplays & Controls Front PanelRear Panel Displays & ControlsRemote Control LED indicator = Source Power buttonAccess button Enter buttonChecking the Settings on Your DVD or other Player Program Format/Speaker Channel IndicatorsBasic Playback Checking the soundtrack on your discPlaying a Source Basic PlaybackStart playback of the component you selected in step STANDBY/ON buttonWhile the display is blinking press Enter Fine Tuning Your Surround SoundRoom Setup Personalizing Your Surround Sound Fine Tuning Your Surround SoundPress Enter to exit the setting mode Fine Tuning Your Surround Sound Front speakers setting Surround speakers settingCenter speaker setting Subwoofer settingFront speakers distance setting Center speaker distance settingLFE attenuator setting Press Enter if you want to exit the settingDynamic range control setting Dual mono settingOptical connection default settings Fine Tuning Your Surround Sound Input attenuator settingCoaxial connection setting assigning the coaxial terminal +/− button Press Test Tone to turn off the test toneButton Playback Modes AutoVirtual Surround Back Virtl SB Selecting a Listening ModePlayback Modes Selecting a Sound Mode Sound ModesUsing the Tuner Channel Step Setting multi- voltage model onlyMPX mode Finding a StationMemorizing Stations Tuning Directly to a StationUsing the Tuner Naming Memorized Stations Recalling Memorized StationsPress Enter to input the first of the four characters Enter up to three more characters in the same wayMuting the Sound Using Other FunctionsUsing the Headphones Input Signal Select Resetting the SystemUsing Other Functions Sleep FunctionDefault Settings for the Receiver Controlling the Rest of Your System Changing the Remote Control ModeSwitching the Operation Mode of the Remote Recalling Preset Codes To cancel the preset mode at any time Press EnterControlling the Rest of Your System While pressing the Enter button pressClearing the Preset Codes CD/MD/CD-R/VCR/DVD/LD/DVD recorder/Cassette Deck Controls Buttons Function ComponentsCable TV/Satellite TV/Digital TV/TV Controls DisplayPreset Code List DVDTroubleshooting Additional InformationSymptom Cause Remedy Additional InformationPress Dimmer on the remote control re Digital Audio Formats Techno Know HowUnderstanding DVD Packaging Recording Formats Playback FormatsEnglish Specifications U.S. model Multi voltage model Specifications Multi voltage model and Singaporean modelAmplifier Section Page English TNGZC/02D00001