Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Digital Audio Components

Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSA-AX10 has three coaxial, four optical and one

2RF inputs for a total of eight digital inputs. In order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital, MPEG or DTS (among others) you need to make digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection (you don’t need to do both). The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some digital components only have one type of digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example, the coaxial out from the component to coaxial in on the amplifier). A DVD/LD player or LD player should also be connected to the special 2 RF jack (if the LD has one).

Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this amplifier's default settings (see next page) unless you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on p.80.

There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can make direct digital recordings with this unit.

We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see p.22) in order to make recordings (some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies).

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

 

DIGITAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONITOR

DIGITAL

PCM/2DIGITAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

OUTPUT

INPUT

 

/DTS/MPEG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(PLAY)

(REC)

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

IN

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONITOR

 

 

 

OUT

 

 

 

 

CONTROL

 

 

 

 

 

AUDIO L

 

OUT

 

 

 

 

PHONO

R

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

DVD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN

 

 

 

OUT

IN

 

 

 

 

/LD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUDIO

IN

 

 

 

7

(CD-R/

CD

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL

 

 

 

POWER AMP

TV

 

 

TAPE1

IN

 

 

 

IN

IN

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN

 

 

IN

/MD)

 

 

 

R

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

(VCR2)

TUNER

 

 

 

FRONT

SAT

IN

 

 

 

IN

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL

IN

 

 

R

L

IN

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUTPUT

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(VCR1

OUT

 

 

 

CENTER

OUT

OUT

 

 

 

REC

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN

/DVR)

CD-R/

 

 

 

 

VCR1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

TAPE1

 

 

 

SUB W.

/DVR

 

 

 

 

/MD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRE OUT

IN

IN

 

 

 

(SAT)

IN

 

 

 

 

 

IN

 

PLAY

 

 

1

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

 

 

(Single)

SUR-

 

 

 

 

IN 3

(CD)

 

 

 

ROUND

OUT

OUT

 

 

REC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TAPE2

 

 

R

L

VCR2

 

DIGITAL

 

 

MONITOR

 

 

 

SUR-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUTPUT

 

IN 2

(TV)

IN

 

 

 

ROUND

IN

IN

 

 

 

 

BACK

 

 

 

 

PLAY

 

 

R

L (Single)

 

 

 

 

 

(DVD

FRONT

 

 

SUB W.

CENTER

 

 

 

 

IN 1

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

OUT

 

 

/LD)

R

 

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VCR3

 

 

 

 

 

SUR-

 

 

 

SUR-

 

DIGITAL

2RF

(DVD

ROUND

 

 

 

ROUND

IN

IN

 

 

 

 

BACK

 

 

IN

/LD)

 

 

 

 

OUTPUT

 

R

 

L

R

L (Single)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(For LD)

 

R AUDIO L

VIDEO

S2 VIDEO

ASSIGNABLE

 

MULTI CH INPUT

 

 

 

CD recorder

CD player

TV tuner

(not a PCM-only output)

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DVD player

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