Pioneer VSX-LX52 manual Contents

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.

Contents

Flow of settings on the receiver . . . . . 6

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

02 Controls and displays

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

03 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Determining the speakers’ application . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Other speaker connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Standard 5.1/6.1/7.1-channel surround connections . . . 19 Bi-ampingyour speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Bi-wiringyour speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Selecting the Surr Back system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 ZONE 2 setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Speaker B setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bi-Ampingsetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About the audio connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About the video converter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting your TV and playback components . . . . . 23 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting your DVD player with no HDMI output . . 24 Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . 25

Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR

and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connecting a satellite/cable receiver

or other set-top box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Connecting the multichannel analog inputs. . . . . . . . 28 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Connecting AM/FM antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 MULTI-ZONEsetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Making MULTI-ZONE connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Operating other Pioneer components

with this unit’s sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Switching components on and off

using the 12 volt trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output . . . . . 34

Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to

the front panel input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Connecting a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

04 Basic Setup

Switching the speaker impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Changing the OSD display language

(OSD Language). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Automatically setting up for surround sound

(Auto MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 40 The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Input function default and possible settings . . . . . . 41

05 Basic playback

Playing a source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Playing a source with HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . 42 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . 43 Playing an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Playing back audio files stored on an iPod. . . . . . . . 43 Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Playing back audio files stored on a USB

memory device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Playing back photo files stored on a USB

memory device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using Neural THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Tuning directly to a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

06 Listening to your system

Auto playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Listening in surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Using Stream Direct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using surround back channel processing . . . . . . . . . 53 Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . . 53 Setting the Up Mix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Selecting MCACC presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Better sound using Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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