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Chapter 2:
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Introduction to home theater
Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio tracks to create a surround sound effect, making you feel like you're in the middle of the action or concert. The surround sound you get from a home theater system depends not only on your speaker setup, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.
This receiver will automatically decode multichannel Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround sources according to your speaker setup. In most cases, you won’t have to make changes for realistic surround sound, but other possibilities (like listening to a CD with multichannel surround sound) are explained in Listening to your system on page 25.
Listening to Surround Sound
This receiver was designed with the easiest possible setup in mind, so with the following quick setup guide, you should have your system hooked up for surround sound in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply leave the receiver in the default settings.
•Be sure to complete all connections before connecting to an AC power source.
1Connect your TV and DVD player. See Connecting a TV and DVD player on page 11 to do this. For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital connection from the DVD player to the receiver.
2Connect your speakers and place them for optimal surround sound.
See Connecting the speakers on page 16.
Where you place the speakers will have a big effect on the sound. Place your speakers as shown below for the best surround sound effect. Also see Hints on speaker placement on page 17 for more on this.
Center (C) | Front |
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Front |
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Left (L) | Subwoofer (SW) | Surround | |
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Listening | Surround | Surround | |
Back(SB)* | |||
position | Left (LS) | ||
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* VSX-516 model only
3Plug in and switch on the receiver, followed by your DVD player, subwoofer and TV.
Make sure you’ve set the video input on your TV to this receiver. Check the manual that came with the TV if you don’t know how to do this.
4Press QUICK SETUP on the front panel to specify your speaker setup, room size and listening position.
Use the MULTI JOG dial to select and ENTER to confirm your selection. See Using the Quick Setup below for more on this.
5Play a DVD, and adjust the volume. Make sure that DVD is showing in the receiver’s display, indicating that the DVD input is selected. If it isn’t, press DVD on the remote to set the receiver to the DVD input.
There are several other sound options you can select. See Listening to your system on page 25
for more on this.1See also The System Setup menu on page 31 for more setup options.
Note
1Depending on your DVD player or source discs, you may only get digital 2 channel stereo and analog sound. In this case, the listening mode must be set to STANDARD (it should already be
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