Pioneer VSX-37TX, VSX-36TX manual Digital Connections, Coaxial cords/Optical cables

Connecting Your Equipment

Digital Connections

In order to use Dolby Digital/DTS soundtracks which are at the heart of home theater you need to make 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 digital components only have one type of digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example, the coaxial out from the component to coaxial in on the receiver). The VSX-37TX/36TX has two coaxial and three optical inputs for a total of five digital inputs. For the VSX-37TX, A DVD/LD player or LD player should be connected to a digital jack and the special 2 RF jack (if the LD has one) as well as a pair of analog jacks (see the next page). If possible hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings, see "Digital Input Assignment", below left, in order to do this. We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks in order to make recording from some digital sources which may be copy protected.

Connect your digital components as shown below.

There are two optical digital out jacks (the MD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can make direct digital recordings with this unit.

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

PREPARATION

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

VSX-37TX

DIGITAL	(not a PCM-only output)
OUTPUT

DVD player

								AUDIO
							R	L
							PCM/	DVD /
							2/	LD
2RF IN	IN	1	IN 2 IN	3	IN 4 IN	5	DTS	IN
(AC-3)			SURR-		PRE OUT		DIGITAL
			OUND					TV /
			R		L			SAT
						MULTI CH IN		IN
			FRONT
OUT	1	OUT 2			L		L	IN
			R					VCR1 /
FM UNBAL							FRONT
75‰								DVR
			CENTER		SUB		R	OUT
					WOOFER
FM
ANTENNA			PLAY				L	IN
			TAPE2				SURR-	VCR2
			MONITOR
							OUND
			REC				R	OUT
			CD					PLAY
			IN					MD /
							CENTER
								TAPE1/
			MULTI-					CD-R
			ROOM					REC
			&				SUB
			SOURCE	R	L
AM LOOP			OUT				WOOFER	PHONO
ANTENNA					AUDIO
								IN
							R	L

VIDEO				COMPONENT VIDEO
VIDEO	S2 VIDEO		DVD/LD		TV/SAT
			IN		IN
IN				Y
IN				PB
IN				PR
					MONITOR
OUT				Y	OUT
IN				PB
OUT				PR
MONITOR			MULTI CH IN
OUT				SURROUND
			R	BACK	L
MONITOR
OUT	IN
OUT
REMOTE
IN		R			L (Single)
MULTI-ROOM	CONTROL			SURROUND

&BACK

SOURCE PRE OUT

(for VSX-36TX DVD Player hook up see p.14)

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

CD player

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

TV tuner

DIGITAL

OUTPUT INPUT

(PLAY) (REC)

MD recorder

7Coaxial cords/Optical cables

Commercially available digital audio coaxial cords (standard video cords can also be used) or optical cables (not supplied) are used to connect digital components to this receiver.

When you use optical digital input or output terminals, pull off the caps and insert the plugs. Be sure to insert completely.

Coaxial cord	Optical cable
(or standard video cord)

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