Onkyo TX-SR501E Connecting Your AV Components, Before Making Any Connections, video, audio cables

Connecting Your AV Components

Before Making Any Connections

•Read the manuals supplied with your AV components.

•Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed all audio and video connections.

Optical Digital Inputs

The TX-SR501/TX-SR501E’s optical digital connectors have a shutter-type cover that opens when an optical plug is inserted, and closes when it’s removed. Push the plug in all the way.

RCA/phono AV Connection Color Coding

RCA/phono AV connections are usually color coded: red, white, and yellow. Use red plugs to connect right-channel audio inputs and outputs (typically labeled “R”). Use white plugs to connect left-channel audio inputs and outputs (typi- cally labeled “L”). And use yellow plugs to connect compos- ite video inputs and outputs.

Right (red)	Analog audio	Right (red)
Left (white)		Left (white)
(Yellow)	Composite video	(Yellow)

• Push the plugs in all the way to make	Right!
a good connection.
• To prevent interference, keep audio
and video cables away from power
cords and speaker cables.	Wrong!

AV Cables & Connectors

			Video
	PR / CR	PR / CR		Component video separates the luminance (Y) and color
Component	PB /CB	Y	PBPRdifference signals (PR, PB), providing the best picture
video		PB / CB		quality. Some TV manufacturers label their component
	Y	Y
				video inputs differently.
			S VIDEO	S-Video provides better picture quality than composite
S-Video
				video.
Composite			VIDEO	Composite video can be found on virtually all TVs,
video				VCRs, and video equipment.
			Audio

Optical digital

Coaxial digital

Analog

OPTICAL	Optical digital audio connections provide better audio
	quality than analog connections. Audio quality is the
	same as for coaxial.

COAXIAL		Coaxial digital audio connections provide better audio
		quality than analog connections. Audio quality is the
		same as for optical.
	AUDIO	RCA/phono analog audio connectors can be found on
L	R
		virtually all AV components.

FRONT SURR CENTER

To connect an AV component with multiple analog audio

Multi-channel connection

Loutputs, for example, a DVD player with individual 5.1 surround analog outputs, you need to make six connec-

R	SUB	tions, which can be done with three stereo RCA/phono
		audio cables.
	WOOFER

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