Pioneer 920 Contents, 04 Basic Setup, 07 Using the tuner, 01 Before you start, 02 Controls and displays, 06 The System Setup menu, 05 Listening to your system

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.

Contents

01 Before you start		04 Basic Setup
Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	7	Automatically setting up for surround
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	7	sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	31
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	7	Other problems when using the Auto
Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	8	MCACC Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	33

02 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 10 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

03 Connecting your equipment

Determining the speakers’ application . . . . . 16 Other speaker connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . 17 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Switching the speaker terminal . . . . . . . . . 20 Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Analog audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting a TV and playback components . . . 24 Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting your DVD player with no

HDMI output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting your TV with no HDMI input. . . 26

Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR

and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . 28 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 28 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Connecting to the front panel video

terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

05 Listening to your system

Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Using the Advanced surround effects. . . . . 36 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . 37 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Better sound using Phase Control. . . . . . . . . 38 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 39 Using surround back channel processing . . . 39 Setting the Up Mix function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the headphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

06 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 The Speaker System setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The Video Parameter setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Video Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

07 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Listening to station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Naming preset stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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