Connecting the AV Receiver/AV Amplifier—Continued

About AV Connections

Before making any AV connections, read the manuals supplied with your other AV components.

Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed and double-checked all AV connections.

AV Connection Color Coding

RCA-type AV connections are usually color-coded: red, white, and yellow. Use red plugs to connect right-chan- nel audio inputs and outputs (typically labeled “R”). Use white plugs to connect left-channel audio inputs and out- puts (typically labeled “L”). And use yellow plugs to connect composite video inputs and outputs.

Optical Digital Jacks

The AV receiver/AV amplifier’s optical digital jacks have shutter-type covers that open when an optical plug is inserted and close when it’s removed. Push plugs in all the way.

Caution:

To prevent shutter damage, hold the optical plug straight when inserting and removing.

Left (white) Analog audio Right (red)

Composite video

(Yellow)

Push plugs in all the way to make good connections (loose connections can cause noise or malfunctions).

To prevent interference, keep audio and video cables away from power cords and speaker cables.

Left (white) Right (red) (Yellow)

Right!

Wrong!

AV Cables & Jacks

Video

Cable

Jack

Description

 

 

HDMI

HDMI connections can carry uncompressed stan-

HDMI

 

dard- or high-definition digital video and audio and

 

 

 

 

 

offer the best picture and sound quality.

 

Y

Y

Component video separates the luminance (Y) and

 

color difference signals (PR, PB), providing the best

Component

PB/CB

PB/CB

picture quality (some TV manufacturers label their

video cable

 

PR/CR

PR/CR

component video sockets slightly differently).

S-Video cable

 

 

S-Video separates the luminance and color signals and

 

 

provides better picture quality than composite video.

 

 

 

Composite

 

 

Composite video is commonly used on TVs, VCRs,

video cable

 

V

and other video equipment.

Audio

 

 

 

 

Cable

Jack

Description

Optical digital

 

 

Offers the best sound quality and allows you to

 

 

enjoy surround sound (e.g., Dolby Digital, DTS).

audio cable

 

 

 

 

The audio quality is the same as for coaxial.

 

 

 

Coaxial digital

 

 

Offers the best sound quality and allows you to

 

 

enjoy surround sound (e.g., Dolby Digital, DTS).

audio cable

 

 

 

 

The audio quality is the same as for optical.

 

 

 

Analog audio

 

L

This cable carries analog audio. It’s the most com-

 

mon connection format for analog audio, and can be

 

 

cable (RCA)

 

 

 

R

found on virtually all AV components.

 

 

 

 

 

This cable carries multichannel analog audio and

 

 

 

it’s typically used to connect DVD players with a

Multichannel

 

 

7.1-channel analog audio output. Several standard

analog audio

 

 

analog audio cables can be used instead of a multi-

cable (RCA)

 

 

 

 

channel cable.

 

 

 

Note:

The AV receiver/AV amplifier does not support SCART plugs.

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Onkyo TX-SA706 About AV Connections, AV Connection Color Coding, Optical Digital Jacks, AV Cables & Jacks

TX-SA706 specifications

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