Pioneer VSX-39TX Digital Connections, 7Coaxial cords/Optical cables, Preparation, DVD player

Connecting Your Equipment

Digital Connections

In order to use Dolby Digital/DTS soundtracks which are at the heart of home theater you need to make digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection (you don’t need to do both). The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some digital components only have one type of digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example, the coaxial out from the component to coaxial in on the receiver). The VSX-39TX has two coaxial and three optical inputs for a total of five digital inputs. A DVD/LD player or LD player should be connected to a digital jack and the special 2RF jack (if the LD has one) as well as a pair of analog jacks (see the next page). If possible hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings, see "Digital Input Assign- ment", below left, in order to do this. We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks in order to make recording from some digital sources which may be copy protected.

Connect your digital components as shown below.

There are two optical digital out jacks (the MD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can make direct digital recordings with this unit.

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

OUTPUT

(not a PCM-only

output)

DVD player

AUDIO

VIDEO

VIDEO

COMPONENT VIDEO

R

L

S2 VIDEO

DVD/LD

TV/SAT

PCM/

DVD /

IN

IN

2RF IN

IN

1

IN

2

IN

3

IN

4

IN

5

2/

LD

IN

Y

OUTPUT

DTS

IN

(AC-3)

SURR-

PRE OUT

DIGITAL

OUND

TV /

R

L

SAT

IN

PB

MULTI CH IN

IN

1

OUT 2

FRONT

VCR1 /

CD player

OUT

R

L

L

IN

IN

PR

FM UNBAL

FRONT

DVR

MONITOR

75‰

CENTER

SUB

R

OUT

OUT

Y

OUT

FM

WOOFER

ANTENNA

PLAY

L

IN

IN

PB

TAPE2

SURR-

VCR2

MONITOR

OUTPUT

OUND

PR

REC

R

OUT

OUT

CD

PLAY

MONITOR

MULTI CH IN

IN

MD /

OUT

SURROUND

CENTER

R

BACK

L

&

TAPE1/

IN

TV tuner

REC

MULTI-

CD-R

MONITOR

ROOM

OUT

SOURCE

R

L

SUB

AM LOOP

OUT

AUDIO

WOOFER

PHONO

OUT

ANTENNA

IN

REMOTE

IN

R

L (Single)

R

L

MULTI-ROOM

CONTROL

SURROUND

&

BACK

SOURCE

PRE OUT

OUTPUT

INPUT

(PLAY)

(REC)

MD recorder

PREPARATION

7Coaxial cords/Optical cables

Commercially available digital audio coaxial cords (standard video cords can also be used) or optical cables (not supplied) are used to connect digital components to this receiver.

When you use optical digital input or output terminals, pull off the caps and insert the plugs. Be sure to insert completely.

Coaxial cord	Optical cable
(or standard video cord)

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