Pioneer VSA-AX10Ai manual Connecting your equipment Installing your speaker system

02Connecting your equipment

Installing your speaker system

To take full advantage of the amplifier’s surround sound capabilities connect front, center, surround and surround back speakers, as well as a subwoofer. Although this is ideal, other configurations with fewer speakers—no subwoofer or no center speaker, or even no surround speakers—will work. At the very least, front left and right speakers only are necessary. Note that your

main surround speakers should always be connected as a pair, but you can connect just one surround back speaker if you like (it must be connected to the left surround back terminal). You can use speakers with a nominal impedance between 4–16Ω(please see Switching the speaker impedance on page 72 if you plan to use speakers with an impedance of less than 6Ω).

Subwoofer

LINE LEVEL

INPUT

Front	Front
left	right
	Center

							CONTROL
DIGITAL								MONITOR
								OUT 1
USB AUDIO
IN				S400	(AUDIO)	OUT	IN	MONITOR
			AUDIO					OUT 2
		R		L
	PHONO								COMPONENT VIDEO
OUT2							DVD/	IN	(DVD/
	IN						LD		LD)	Y
							IN		IN

		CD		AUDIO	POWER	TV/		1 Y	MONITOR
	OUT1				AMP		IN		OUT
		IN			IN	DVD			PB
						IN		PB
6
	(CD-R/	TUNER				SAT	IN
	TAPE1/	IN				IN			PR
IN	MD)			R	L			PR
5	(DVR/	OUT		CENTER				IN	IN
						OUT	OUT
	VCR1)	REC
IN						DVR/		2	3
		CD-R/						Y	Y
4		TAPE1/			SUB W.	VCR1
	(SAT)	MD			PRE OUT	IN	IN
IN		IN
		PLAY		1	2			PB	PB
				(Single)	SUR-
3 IN	(CD)	OUT			ROUND	OUT	OUT
		REC
		TAPE2		R	L	VCR2		PR	PR
	(TV/	MONITOR					IN		ASSIGNABLE
2 IN		IN				IN
	DVD)			R	L (Single)
		PLAY
	(DVD/	FRONT		SUB W	CENTER
1 IN						OUT	OUT
	LD)	R	L
						VCR3
		SUR-			SUR-
2RF										1
	(DVD/	ROUND			ROUND	IN	IN
IN					BACK
	LD)	R	L	R	L(Single)	L			12V TRIGGER	DC OUT 12V
ASSIGNABLE			MULTI CH INPUT		R				RS-232C	TOTAL 100mA MAX
					AUDIO	VIDEO		S2 VIDEO		2

A

L

FRONT

R

CENTER

L

SUR-

ROUND

R

L (Single)

SUR-

ROUND

BACK

R

SPEAKERS

AC OUTLET

SWITCHED 100W MAX

AC IN

SELECTABLE (SURROUND BACK & B )

B

L

R

VSA-AX10Ai
Surround			Surround
left	Surround	Surround	right
	back left	back right

Connecting the speakers

Each speaker connection on the amplifier comprises a positive (+) red, and negative (–) white terminal. For proper sound you should take care to match these up with the terminals on the speakers themselves.

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