Pioneer Optimize Your Surround Sound Setup for VSX-416 and VSX-516 Models

The System Setup menu 07

3 Use	to select the channel you want,
using	to check the settings.

The MCACC channel EQ indicators in the front panel display will light accordingly.

4When you're finished, press RETURN. You will return to the Manual MCACC setup menu.

Manual speaker setup

These settings optimize surround sound performance (if you’re satisfied with the settings made in Using the Quick Setup on page 7 or (VSX- 516 only) Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 8, adjustment may not be necessary). You only need to make these settings once (unless you change the placement of your current speaker system or add new speakers).

1Select SP SETUP from the System Setup menu.

2 Use to select the setting you want to adjust then press ENTER.

•SP SET – Specify size / number of speakers connected (see Speaker setting below).

•X.OVER – Specify which frequencies will be sent to the subwoofer (see Crossover network below).

•CH LEVEL – Adjust overall balance of your speaker system (see Channel level below).

•SP DISTN. – Specify the distance of your speakers from the listening position (see Speaker Distance below).

3Press RETURN after making the adjustments necessary for each setting.

Speaker setting

Use this setting to specify your speaker configuration (size, number of speakers).

1 Select SP SET from the SP SETUP menu.

2 Use to choose the speaker(s) that you want to set then select a speaker size.

Use to select the size (and number) of each of the following speakers:

•Front (F) – Select LARGE if your front speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively, or if you didn’t connect a subwoofer. Select SMALL to send the bass frequencies to the subwoofer.1

•Center (C) – Select LARGE if your center speaker reproduces bass frequencies effectively, or select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect a center speaker, choose NO (the center channel is sent to the front speakers).

•Surround (S) – Select LARGE if your surround speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect surround speakers choose NO (the sound of the surround channels is sent to the front speakers or a subwoofer).

•Surround Back (SB) – Select LARGE if your surround back speaker reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect surround back speaker choose NO.2

•Subwoofer (SW) – LFE signals and bass frequencies of channels set to SMALL are output from the subwoofer when YES is selected. Choose the PLUS setting if you want the subwoofer to output bass sound continuously or you want deeper bass (the bass frequencies that would normally

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Note

1If you select SMALL for the front speakers the subwoofer is fixed to YES. Also, the center, surround, and surround back speak- er can’t be set to LARGE if the front speakers are set to SMALL. In this case, all bass frequencies are sent to the subwoofer.

2• If the surround speakers are set to NO, the surround back speaker will automatically be set to NO.

• If you select one surround back speaker only, make sure that speaker is hooked up to the left surround back terminal.

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