5 minute guide
Chapter 2:
5 minute guide
Introduction to home theater
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 your speaker setup, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.
This receiver will automatically decode multichannel Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround sources according to your speaker setup. In most cases, you won’t have to
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Where you place the speakers will have a big effect on the sound. Place your speakers as shown below for the best surround sound effect. Also see Placing the speakers on page 22 for more on this.
Center (C) | Front |
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| Right (R) |
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Front |
| Surround |
Left (L) | Subwoofer (SW) | |
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| Right (SR) |
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
position
Surround
Back Right (SBR)
Surround |
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Left (SL) | Surround Back Left (SBL) |
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.
•Be sure to complete all connections before connecting this receiver to an AC power source.
1 Connect your TV and DVD player.
See Connecting your TV and DVD player on page 17 to do this. For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital connection from the DVD player to the receiver.
2Connect your speakers and place them for optimal surround sound.
Connect your speakers as shown in Installing your speaker system on page 21.
3Plug in the receiver and switch it on, followed by your DVD player, your subwoofer and the TV.
Plug the power cable into the AC outlet and switch on the
receiver.1 Make sure you’ve set the video input on your TV to this receiver. Check the manual that came with the TV if you don’t know how to do this.
• Set the subwoofer volume to a comfortable level.
4Use the
See Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto MCACC) on page 10 for more on this.
5Play a DVD, and adjust the volume to your liking. Make sure that DVD is showing in the receiver’s display, indicating that the DVD input is selected. If it isn’t, press DVD on the remote control to set the receiver to the DVD input.
In addition to the basic playback explained in Playing a source on page 11, there are several other sound options you can select. See Listening to your system on page 30 for more on this.
See also Making receiver settings from the System Setup menu on page 38 for more setup options.
Note
1After this receiver is connected to an AC outlet, a
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