Pioneer VSA-AX10Ai manual Contents

Contents

Our philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

01 Before you start

Checking the supplied accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Operating range of the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Recharging the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Setting up the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Calibrating the remote control screen . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting the button alert volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting the time-out setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Resetting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Locking the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Restarting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Replacing the lithium-ion batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting the multichannel analog outputs . . . . 16

Connecting a satellite/cable amplifier or other set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting a component to the front panel inputs. . 23 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Plugging in the amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 About the AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

03 Controls and displays

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Basic remote control displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Remote control displays for other components . . . 32

04 Getting started

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Automatically setting up for surround sound . . . . . . 35

Other problems when using the Auto Surround Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

4

Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)

player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

05 Listening to your system

About the listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Listening with headphones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Stream Direct mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . 44 Selecting the input signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Selecting USB and multichannel analog

input channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Listening to high-sampling formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the surround back channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Listening with virtual surround back speakers . . . . . 47 Creating a center speaker effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using Hi-bit and Hi-sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using the tone control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Switching the tone control on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Reducing noise during playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Listening to dual mono soundtracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

06 The Surround Setup menu

Making amplifier settings from the Surround Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Speaker Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Channel Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Professional Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . 57

X-Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Checking your surround settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

07 Controlling other equipment

Using the remote control with other components. . . 61 Recalling preset codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Programming signals from other remote controls . . 63 Remote Direct function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Editing remote control button names . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Multi Operation and System Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Programming a multi operation or a shutdown sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Switching components on and off using the 12

volt trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

En