Pioneer VSX-1125-K, VSX-1325-K manual Contents

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . . 10

02 Controls and displays

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting an XM Radio tuner (VSX-1325 only) . . . . . 33 Connecting a SiriusConnect™ tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Connecting a USB device for Advanced MCACC output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Operating other Pioneer components with this

unit’s sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Switching components on and off using the

12 volt trigger (VSX-1325 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Plugging in the receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

03 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Determining the speakers’ application . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Other speaker connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Installing your speaker system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Standard surround connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Bi-amping your speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bi-wiring your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Selecting the Speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Front height setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Front wide setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Bi-Amping setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 ZONE 2 setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the audio connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting your TV and playback components . . . . . 24 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting your DVD player with no HDMI

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . 26

Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, BD recorder

and other video sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other

set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Connecting other audio components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 About the WMA9 Pro decoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Connecting AM/FM antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Connecting external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 MULTI-ZONE setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Making MULTI-ZONE connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Connecting to the network through LAN interface. . . 32 Connecting Optional Bluetooth® ADAPTER . . . . . . . 32

Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to the

front panel input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

04 Basic Setup

Switching the speaker impedance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Changing the OSD display language

(OSD Language) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Automatically conducting optimum sound tuning (Auto MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 39 The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Input function default and possible settings . . . . . . 40

05 Basic playback

Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Playing a source with HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . 41 Playing an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Playing back audio files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . 42 Playing a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Playing back photo files stored on a USB memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using Neural Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Saving station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Listening to Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Programming the Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . 46 Listening to Satellite Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Listening to XM Radio (VSX-1325 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using XM HD Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Saving channel presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using the XM Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Listening to SIRIUS Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Saving channel presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the SIRIUS Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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