Onkyo TX-SR8550 Connecting an RI Dock, Connecting a Cassette, CDR, MiniDisc, or DAT Recorder

Connecting Your Components—Continued

Connecting an RI Dock

■ RI Dock with video

Connect your RI Dock’s analog audio output jacks

and S-Video output jack to the AV receiver’s

CBL/SAT IN L/R jacks and CBL/SAT IN S jack.

■ RI Dock without video

Connect your RI Dock’s analog audio output jacks to

S VIDEO	AUDIO
OUT	OUT
L	R

the AV receiver’s TAPE IN L/R jacks (1).

Notes:

•Connect the Remote Interactive Dock with an cable (see page 33).

•Set the Remote Interactive Dock’s RI MODE switch to HDD or HDD/DOCK.

•Set the AV receiver’s Input Display to DOCK (see page 39).

•Refer to the Remote Interactive Dock’s instruction manual.

DIGITAL IN
ASSIGNABLE
COAX-
IAL1			Y
(DVD)
2			CB/PB
(CBL/SAT)
OPTICAL
1			CR/PR
(VCR/DVR)
CBL/SAT IN	VCR/DVR IN	DVD IN	OUT
COMPONENT VIDEO
2	IN	OUT	IN
(CD)
L			L
R
REMOTE			1
CONTROL	CD	TAPE

AM

CBL/SAT

V

S

IN

IN

L

R

CBL/SAT

			SIRIUS
ANTENNA
	FM 75
VCR/DVR		DVD	MONITOR
			OUT V
			S
OUT	IN	IN
OUT	IN	FRONT	SURROUND
VCR/DVR			DVD

(DS-A1 hookup shown here.)

Connecting a Cassette, CDR, MiniDisc, or DAT Recorder

Step 1:

Choose a connection that matches the recorder ( a , b , or c ), and then make the connection.

		b	IALCOAX-
			2
			(CBL/SAT)
		c	OPTICAL
			1
			(VCR/DVR)
Connect one or the
other
These connections
must be assigned
(see page 39)	COAXIAL
		OUT

DIGITAL IN
ASSIGNABLE
COAX-
IAL1			Y
(DVD)
2			CB/PB
(CBL/SAT)
OPTICAL
1			CR/PR
(VCR/DVR)
CBL/SAT IN	VCR/DVR IN	DVD IN	OUT
COMPONENT VIDEO
2	IN	OUT	IN
(CD)
L			L
R			R
REMOTE
CONTROL	CD	TAPE

OUT IN	a
	L

R

TAPE

LL

OPTICAL

OUT

RR

IN OUT

REC PLAY

Cassette recorder, CDR, etc.

•With connection , you can listen via speaker set B.

•To connect the recorder digitally, use connections and , or and .

Connection		AV receiver	Signal flow	Cassette/CDR/MD/DAT recorder
		TAPE IN L/R	⇐	Analog audio L/R output
	a
			⇒
		TAPE OUT L/R		Analog audio L/R input
		DIGITAL IN COAXIAL 2	⇐	Digital coaxial output
	b
	c	DIGITAL IN OPTICAL 1	⇐	Digital optical output

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