Pioneer VSX-43TX Connecting Digital Audio Components, 7Coaxial cords/Optical cables, CD player

Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Digital Audio Components

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

Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSX-43TX has two coaxial, two optical inputs for a total of four digital inputs. In order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS (among others) 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).

Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings (see next page) unless you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on page 76.

There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD 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.

We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see page 19) in order to make recordings because some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies.

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

ASSIGNABLE							PRE OUT
PCM/	FM UNBAL 75Ω		AM LOOP
2DIGITAL /				ANTENNA
DTS
							SUB	DIGITAL
						CENTER
OUT1	IN						WOOFER	OUTPUT
		CONTROL
	OUT
OUT2						FRONT
(TV/	PLAY	L	MONITOR OUT			SUR-		DIGITAL	DIGITAL	Satellite tuner
IN 1	R					R	L
SAT)	IN			IN		ROUND		OUTPUT	INPUT
IN 2	CD-R/			VCR1/		R	L	(PLAY)	(REC)
							(Single)
(CD-R/	TAPE1			DVR		SUR-
TAPE1)	OUT			OUT		ROUND
						BACK
	REC					R	L
IN 3	PLAY					FRONT				CD recorder
(DVD/	IN			IN
LD)	MD/			VCR2		R	L
IN 4	TAPE2					SUR-
(CD)	OUT			OUT		ROUND
								DIGITAL
	REC					R	L
								OUTPUT
	CD					SUB	CEN-
				TV/
						WOOF-	TER
	IN			SAT
						ER
				IN
DIGITAL	LINE			DVD/		SUR-
						ROUND
	IN			LD
						BACK
				IN
						R	L
	R	L	R	L						DVD player
					VIDEO	S VIDEO		(not a PCM-only output)
		AUDIO	AUDIO		VIDEO		MULTI CH IN
								DIGITAL
								OUTPUT

CD player

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.

Be sure to insert completely and in the case of the optical cable, right-side up. If it is inserted improperly it can break the shutter on the optical terminal (this won't, however, affect the connection or insertion of an optical cable).

Coaxial cord	Optical cable
(or standard [composite]
video cord)

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