Pioneer VSX-D909S 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-D909S has two coaxial and three optical inputs for a total of five digital inputs. If possible hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings, see “Digital Input Assignment“ (see.p.14) 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 wall outlet.

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

DIGITAL	(not a PCM-only output)
OUTPUT

PREPARATION

							AUDIO
						R	L
						PCM/	DVD /
						2/	LD
IN	1	IN 2 IN	3	IN	4 IN 5	DTS	IN
		SURR-		PRE OUT		DIGITAL
		OUND					TV /
		R			L		SAT
							IN
					MULTI CH 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	S 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 SURROUND		L (Single)
MULTI-ROOM	CONTROL

&BACK

SOURCE PRE OUT

DVD player

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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