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Chapter 2:
5 minute guide
Introduction to home theater
You are probably used to using stereo equipment to listen to music, but may not be used to home theater systems that
give you many more options (such as surround sound) when listening to soundtracks.
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
the speakers you have set up in your room, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.
DVD-Video has become the basic source material for home theater due to its size, quality, and ease of use. Depending
on the DVD, you can have up to seven different audio tracks coming from one disc, all of them being sent to different
speakers in your system. This is what creates a surround sound effect and gives you the feeling of ‘being there’.
This receiver will automatically decode Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround DVD-Video discs, 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 30.
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.
Note that the illustrations below show the VSX-2014i however, connections for the VSX-1014 are the
same.
Important
•Before making or changing any connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.
1 Hook up your DVD player.
For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital connection from the DVD player to the receiver. You can do
this with either a coaxial (recommended), or an optical connection (you don’t need to connect both). If you hook up
using an optical cable, you should refer to
The Input Assign menu
on page 67 to assign the optical input to
DVD
.
Use a video cord to connect the video output on your DVD player to the receiver using the jacks shown below.
2 Hook up your TV.
Use a video cord to connect your receiver to the TV using the jacks as shown below.
ASSIGNABLE
CD
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
OUT
OUT
CD-R/
TAPE/MD
VIDEO1
DVR /
VCR
DVD/
LD
TV/
SAT
TER
CEN-
TER
SUR-
ROUND
SUR-
ROUND
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
(Single)
FRONT
FRONT
SUBW.
SUBW.
MULTI CH IN
OOM
&
SOURC
E
MO
NIT
OR
MONITOR
VIDEO1
DVR /
VCR
TV/
SAT
DVD/
LD
IN
IN
IN
VIDEO
COMPONENT
ASSIGNABLE
MULTI-
ROOM &
SOURCE
AUDIO VIDEO S-VIDEO
RS - 232C
IN
IN
OUT
OUT
OUT
ANTENNA
AM
LOOP
Ω
M
O
NIT
O
R
OUT
12V
TRIGGER
Y
Y
P
B
P
R
PB
PR
Y
PB
PR
〜
1 2
2
IN 1
R
R L
R L
R
R
L
L
R
RL
L
PLAY
PLAY
REC
REC
OUT
IR
IN
VIDEO
(DC OUT12V/
100mA MAX)
S400
S400
IN
(DVD/
LD)
IN
(CD)
DIGITAL
IN (CD-R/
TAPE/MD)IN OUT
(TV/SAT)
4
3
2 1
SPEAKERS
AC IN
A B
RL RL RL(Single)
FRONT CENTER SURROUND SURROUND BACK /
SELECTABLE
SELECTABLE
SWITCHED 100W MAX
AC OUTLET
SUR-
ROUND
FRONT
VCR
TV/
SAT
DVD/
LD
IN
VIDEO
VIDEO S-VIDEO
IN
OUT
L
L
ASSIGNABLE
PRE
OUT
CEN-
TER
SUR-
ROUND
FRONT
MULTI-ROOM & SOURCE
MONITOR
MONITOR
VIDEO1
IN
OUT
OUT
IN
R/ TAPE/MD)IN OUT
(TV/SAT)
21
S
IN
(DVD/
LD)
IN
(CD)
IN
OUT
DVD/
LD
TV/
SAT
4
3REC
Optical cable
TV
DIGITAL OUT
VIDEO OUT
VIDEO IN
Coaxial
cable
Video cord
Vi
deo
co
r
d
DVD player
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