Pioneer VSX-53TX manual Speaker Connections,  Speaker terminals

Easy Setup Guide Part 1

2 Speaker Connections

Home theater is designed to be setup with five, or seven speakers (front left and right; center; surround left and right; and, optimally, surround back left and right) and a subwoofer, but you can use this receiver with fewer speakers. Hook up the speakers you have to the A speaker terminals on the back of the receiver. If you only have two speakers hook them up as FRONT. If you have three hook up the single speaker as CENTER. Follow the diagram below in order to hook up all your speakers. A center speaker is very important for watching films because in digital soundtracks the dialog comes from the center speaker. If you do not have a center speaker you must tell the receiver the center channel is off or when you listen to digital soundtracks you won't hear any dialog. This can be done automatically by following the “Auto Surround Sound Setup” instructions from page 13 in this Easy Setup Guide. If possible, use surround back speakers. These speakers are important to take full advantage of all the sound channels on new, eight channel home theater DVDs. The diagram below also explains how to hook up a subwoofer which provides realistic bass sounds. For the subwoofer use a mono (single plug) RCA cord and for the other speakers use regular speaker cords.

Make sure you connect the speaker on the right to the R terminal and the speaker on the left to the L terminal. Also make sure the positive and negative (+/–) terminals on the receiver match those on the speakers.

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Front	subwoofer	Front
speaker	TV/monitor	speaker
(Left)		(Right)
		Center
		speaker
Surround
speaker		Surround
(Left)
		speaker
		(Right)
Surround back		Surround back
speaker (Left)		speaker (Right)

Memo:

•We recommend speakers with a nominal impedance rated 8 Ω-16 Ω, but you can change the speaker impedance setting of the receiver (see page 26).

•If you only have one surround back speaker hook it up to the left surround back terminal.

•If you use a THX certified subwoofer use the THX INPUT jack on the subwoofer (if your subwoofer has one) or switch the filter position to THX on your subwoofer.

•When you attached your speaker wire to the speaker terminal make sure that not even one strand of wire touches the back of the receiver. If this happens it could short out the receiver.

 Speaker terminals			The speaker terminals also
1 Twist exposed wire	2 Loosen speaker terminal	3 Tighten	accept single banana plugs.
			(Refer to speaker manual for
strands together	and insert	terminal.
			details.)
tightly.

EASY SETUP GUIDE

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