Pioneer VSX-01TXH manual Contents, Before you start, 02 5 minute guide, Listening to your system

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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

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Automatically setting up for surround sound

(Auto MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 11 Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Better sound using Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Selecting MCACC presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using surround back channel processing . . . . . . . . . 34 Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . . 34 Using the genre synchronizing function. . . . . . . . . . . 35

03 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 When making cable connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 About HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting your TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting your Blu-ray disc player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting a satellite/cable receiver

or other set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting a DVD/HDD recorder, VCR

and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting a component to the front panel inputs . . . 20 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Placing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . 26 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

06 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Improving FM stereo sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using Neural THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

07 The System Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the System

Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Automatic MCACC (Expert) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Manual MCACC setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Standing Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Acoustic Calibration EQ Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 X-Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 THX Audio Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Pioneer VSX-01TXH manual Contents, Before you start, 02 5 minute guide, Listening to your system, Connecting your equipment