Pioneer 516-S/-K, VSX-416-S/-K manual Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . 5 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

03 Quick surround sound setup

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Other problems during Auto MCACC . . . . . . 9

04 Connecting up

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Connecting a TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . 11

Connecting the multichannel analog

outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 13 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting other video components . . . . . . 14 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Speaker placement diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 18

05 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

06 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . 26 Setting the effect options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 27 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using surround back channel processing. . . 28 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB). . . . . . . . 28 Using Midnight and Loudness . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 30

07 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Fine Channel Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The Other setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . . 37 Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

08 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

09 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 41

10 USB playback

Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Compressed audio compatibility. . . . . . . . . 43

11 Additional information

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Switching the speaker impedance. . . . . . . . . 46 Power cord caution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Cleaning the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47