Arcam AVR600, AVR500, AV888 manual General, Making connections, Product differences and options

audio/video connections

Important notes about Component/RGB video inputs and outputs

<When you connect your devices to these connectors, take care to follow the letter/colour coding for each input. No damage will occur but incorrectly coloured or unstable pictures will result.

<The Component video inputs have sufficient bandwidth for NTSC (525/60) or PAL (625/50) video and HDTV video signals.

Before connecting your AVR500/AVR600 or AV888 and power amplifier (e.g. the Arcam P777) to your source components and speakers, please read through the next few pages which will explain all the input and output connectivity that is available. The ‘Speakers’ section explains how to connect up your speakers to avoid damage to the amplifier and how to arrange your speakers for best performance.

General

The inputs are named to make it easier to reference connected devices (e.g. ‘DVD’ or ‘VCR’). They all have the same input circuit (with the exception of the ‘phono’ input), so there is no reason why you should not connect a different device to any of the inputs. For example, if you had two DVD players and the AV input was not being used, then the second DVD player could be connected to the AV input.

When connecting a video source, its audio must be connected to the corresponding sockets. For example, if you a had a satellite decoder plugged into a SAT video input, the audio must be connected to the SAT audio inputs!

The hierarchy for video connections for best quality is as follows;

<HDMI

<Component/RGB

<S-Video

<Composite.

You should connect as many of these as possible. The unit will automatically select the best quality connection for the source available. For any video source to be available in Zone 2 you must have an S-Video or Composite connection between the unit and the source.

Making connections

<Wherever possible, connect both the analogue and digital outputs of digital sources. This enables use of a digital input for the main zone and the corresponding analogue input for recording onto an analogue tape deck, VCR or PVR, or for the Zone 2 or 3 output.

<Take care to place cables as far from any power supply cabling as is practicable, to reduce hum and other noise problems.

Product differences and options

Product operation is broadly similar for the AVR500, AVR600 and AV888, however, the AVR600 & AV888 have a greater variety of input connectors and a different rear panel layout. For this reason, two sections of connection diagrams and are presented. Please see Page 8 for the AVR600 & AV888. For the AVR500 please skip ahead to Page 14.

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