Connecting the Home Theater Standard 7.1 to Your System, continued

Step 7: Connect

The Home Theater Standard 7.1 has balanced outputs with XLR

Amplifiers and

connectors, single-ended outputs with RCA connectors, and is

Loudspeakers

equipped with a DB-25 multichannel output. These output formats

 

are active at all times, allowing simultaneous connection to separate

 

amplifiers. Use only one output format per amplifier.

 

 

IMPORTANT

Make sure that all sources are off when you configure the Home

 

Theater Standard 7.1.

 

1. Connect the outputs of the Home Theater Standard 7.1 to the

 

input(s) of your power amplifier(s).

 

Use the DB-25 connector to connect to a DB-25-equipped

 

amplifier:

 

Connect the DB-25 output on the Home Theater Standard 7.1 to

 

the DB-25 multichannel input on the back panel of your amplifier.

 

The DB-25 cable simultaneously transmits audio outputs and

 

Trigger 1 signals from the DB-25 output of the Home Theater

 

Standard 7.1 to all inputs and to a 5 VDC (5 Volt trigger) via the

 

DB-25 input device.

 

If you are connecting the Home Theater Standard 7.1 to an amplifier via a

Note

 

DB-25 connector, you need to configure Trigger 1 on the Home Theater

 

Standard 7.1 to send a 5 Volt trigger signal before operating the amplifier.

 

2. Connect the power amplifiers to the loudspeakers.

 

3. Connect the AC power cord to the IEC connector (56) on the

 

Home Theater Standard 7.1 and to the AC wall outlet.

 

4. Move the back panel power switch (55) into the up (on) position.

 

The red power LED on the front panel illuminates. The words

 

PLEASE WAIT, INITIALIZING appear in the front panel display (24).

 

When the initializing message disappears, the Home Theater

 

Standard 7.1 is ready to switch to the operational mode.

 

5. Use either the front panel power button (1) or the remote control

 

power pre key (58) to power on the Home Theater Standard 7.1.

 

The blue power LED (2) on the front panel illuminates. The Home

 

Theater Standard 7.1 is now in the operational mode and ready

 

to be configured.

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