Kenwood VR-5900 Chapter One Connecting Your Devices, Before You Begin, Before Connection

Chapter One: Connecting Your Devices

Connections

Welcome to the Kenwood VR-5900 Connection and Setup Guide. This chapter guides you through connecting your home entertainment devices to your new Kenwood audio- video receiver.

Once all your devices are connected, you can set up the PowerTouch (see Chapter Two).

Refer to the following pages for details on connecting these devices:

Speakers	page 4
TV	page 10
VCR(s)	page 14
CD Player, Kenwood 200-Disc Changer	page 16
DVD Player	page 18
CD-R Recorder	page 20
MD Recorder	page 22
Tape Deck(s)	page 22
Laser Disc Player	page 26
Turntable	page 30
Camcorder/Second VCR	page 31
Antennas	page 33

All necessary cables should be provided with your home entertainment device (not with your new receiver). If you do not have the correct cables, you may purchase these cables from any home entertainment store or by visiting the Kenwood USA Web site: www.kenwoodusa.com (for USA and Canada only).

To make coaxial digital connections, be sure to use a high- quality digital audio cable, not a standard audio cable.

Do not plug in the receiver or any other device to AC power until all connections have been made. Once all devices have been connected, you may plug them in and provide power.

Important:

Your new receiver requires adequate ventilation to perform reliably. Be sure not to block the ventilation area on the top or back (or both sides) of the receiver with another device. These areas should be:

At least 6 inches (15 cm) from any obstruction.

Do not install your receiver where direct sunlight or high frequency fluorescent lighting can shine directly into the remote sensor. This can cause your new receiver to malfunc- tion.

Before You Begin

This manual covers the most common and standard con- nections to the receiver. Because of its versatility, you may decide to connect your devices differently.

Before making any video connections to the your receiver :

•You can use either S-Video or standard composite (RCA) video connections.

•If all of your video devices and TV have S-Video connec- tors, we suggest that you use them exclusively, since it will provide superior video performance.

•If your TV does not comply with the component video input, it is not required to connect the component video output of your video devices.

•To record video from a device connected through the component video lines, also connect the S-Video line or composite (RCA) video line.

Before Connection:

The connection scheme in this manual shows the most typi- cal example with a receiver. But the receiver can also be con- nected and used in several ways other than the example.

Before connecting any video device to the receiver, please read carefully the following information.

Video signals

The receiver incorporates video signal separation and mix- ing circuitry which enables mutual conversion between the

composite video and S-Video signals. It is also equipped with component video signal input/output.

Video output at the Monitor connectors or the VIDEO connectors

The monitor connectors or the VIDEO connectors of the receiver outputs the video signal according to the connected TV (video monitor, VCR) regardless of whether the con- nected video or DVD device outputs the composite video or S-Video. The component signals will be output only at the component MONITOR OUT connectors

•When the connected video device or TV is equipped with S-Video connectors, it is recommended to use S-Video connectors to enjoy higher video equality.

•If the video device and/or TV do not have an S-Video input connector, it is recommended only to use the com- posite (RCA) video connector.

Mutual conversion between composite video, S-Video and 1 component video signals is limited in the directions of ar- rows in the following diagram.

InputOutput

1 Component Component

2 S-Video S-Video

3 Composite Composite

If several video connections are made, one of them will be selected based on the priority 1, 2 and 3.

•If you plan on using the VR-5900 in a Dual-Zone appli- cation (see Chapter Four), you must use the composite video connections in addition to any S-Video connections. Only video sources connected with composite connectors can be viewed in the second zone.