Pioneer Connecting Your Speakers: Understanding Speaker Positive and Negative Terminals

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3 Connect your speakers.

A complete setup of eight speakers (including the subwoofer) is shown here but everyone’s home setup will vary. Simply connect the speakers you have in the manner shown below. The receiver will work with just two stereo speakers (the front speakers in the diagram) but using at least three speakers is recommended, and a complete setup is best.

Make sure you connect the speaker on the right to the right terminal and the speaker on the left to the left terminal. Also make sure the positive and negative (+/–) terminals on the receiver match those on the speakers. You can use speakers with a nominal impedance between 6–16Ω(please see Switching the speaker impedance on page 67 if you plan to use speakers with an impedance of less than 8Ω).

Front speakers		Center speaker	Surround speakers		Surround back speakers
L	R	C	LS	RS	SBL	SBR

		IN		AUX
DIGITAL OUT					FM UNBAL	AM
		IN		CD	75 Ω	LOOP	ANTENNA
	OPT						MONITOR	OUT
						OUT
	OPT	OUT		DVR/		CONTROL
	2			VCR		IN
(DVR/VCR)		IN			VIDEO			OUT
	OPT							DVR/
	1			TV /	IN	OUT		VCR
	(TV /	IN		SAT				IN
ASSIGNABLE	SAT)				IN
	COAX			DVD
DIGITAL IN						MONITOR		TV/
	2	IN		/LD		OUT		SAT
	(CD)			FRONT				IN
					D V D
	COAX				5.1CH	SUB
	1			REC	INPUT	WOOFER		DVD
		OUT		CD-R	IN	PREOUT		/LD
	(DVD
				/ TAPE				IN
	/LD)			/ MD			S-VIDEO
		IN		PLAY
		R	AUDIO	L

CEN-
TER
				COMPONENT VIDEO		ASSIGNABLE		L	L	SURROU
										BA
R		L	MONITOR OUT
SURROUND
DVD 5.1CH INPUT
		Y	PB	PR	Y	PB	PR	R	R	CENTER
						(T V / SAT) IN ø		FRONT	SURROUND	PREOUT
S		R FRONT	L	CENTER		R SURROUND BACK		L	R SURROUND	L	R FRONT L
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A	A					SINGLE					B
K						SEE INSTRUCTION
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Powered		Passive
subwoofer		subwoofer
SW		or single	TV
		surround
	INPUT	back
		speaker

AUDIO IN

•If you’re not using a subwoofer, change the front speaker setting (see Speaker setting on page 43) to large.

•To use the speaker on your TV as the center speaker (C), connect the CENTER PREOUT jack on this unit to the audio input jack on your TV. In this case the center speaker shown is unnecessary.

•If you are using only one surround back speaker, connect the positive wire to the right channel (+) terminal, and the negative wire to the left channel (–) terminal (shown below).

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