Pioneer VSX-45TX manual Connecting Digital Audio Components, Type USB cable

Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Digital Audio Components

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

Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSX-45TX has two coaxial and two optical inputs for a total of four digital inputs on the rear panel plus one digital input on the front panel. In order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS (among others) 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).

Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings (see next page) unless you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on page 91.

There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD 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.

We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see page 20) in order to make recordings (some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies).

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

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ASSIGNABLE							PRE OUT
PCM/	FM UNBAL 75Ω		AM LOOP		MULTI-ROOM
2DIGITAL /				ANTENNA	& SOURCE
DTS/MPEG					MONITOR OUT
							SUB	DIGITAL
OUT1	IN		MULTI-ROOM			CENTER	WOOFER	OUTPUT
		CONTROL	& SOURCE
				MONITOR
			R OUT
	OUT			L	OUT
OUT2						FRONT				Satellite tuner
(TV/	PLAY	L				SUR-		DIGITAL	DIGITAL
IN 1	R					R	L
SAT)	IN			IN		ROUND		OUTPUT	INPUT
IN 2	CD-R/			VCR1/		R	L	(PLAY)	(REC)
(CD-R/	TAPE1			DVR		SUR-	(Single)
TAPE1)	OUT			OUT		ROUND
						BACK
	REC					R	L
IN 3	PLAY					FRONT					CD recorder
(DVD/	IN			IN
LD)	MD/			VCR2		R	L
IN 4	TAPE2					SUR-
(CD)	OUT			OUT		ROUND
								DIGITAL
	REC					R	L
								OUTPUT
	CD					SUB	CEN-
				TV/
	IN			SAT		WOOF-	TER
						ER
				IN
	PHONO/			DVD/		SUR-
	LINE					ROUND
USB	IN			LD		BACK
AUDIO				IN		R	L
	R	L	R	L							DVD player
DIGITAL					VIDEO		MULTI CH IN	(not a PCM-only output)
		AUDIO	AUDIO
					VIDEO	S VIDEO

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

CD player

A type

USB cable

PC

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