Contents
01 Before you start
Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . 5 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
02 5 minute guide
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
03 Quick surround sound setup
Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Other problems during Auto MCACC . . . . . . 9
04 Connecting up
Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Connecting a TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . 11
Connecting the multichannel analog
outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting a satellite receiver or other
digital
05 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
06 Listening to your system
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . 26 Setting the effect options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 27 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using surround back channel processing. . . 28 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB). . . . . . . . 28 Using Midnight and Loudness . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 30
07 The System Setup menu
Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Fine Channel Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The Other setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . . 37 Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
08 Using the tuner
Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
09 Making recordings
Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 41
10 USB playback
Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Compressed audio compatibility. . . . . . . . . 43
11 Additional information
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Switching the speaker impedance. . . . . . . . . 46 Power cord caution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Cleaning the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47