Pioneer VSX-43TX SECOND ZONE Speaker System B/FRONT BI-AMPSetup, 1Connect your speakers as shown

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SECOND ZONE (Speaker System B)/FRONT BI-AMP Setup

Stereo playback in another room (SECOND ZONE)

This setup enables you to listen to a pair of stereo speakers independently of the main speaker system hooked up to the receiver. The VSX-43TX has two possibilities for playback in another room. You can choose SECOND ZONE, and use the speakers hooked up to the surround back terminals as a B speaker system, that is, playing the same source as the main speaker system but from independent stereo speakers.

1Connect a pair of speakers to the surround back speaker terminals.

2Select SECOND ZONE in the SURRBACK SYSTEMS setup (see page 35) setup.

memo Please use speakers with a nominal impedance rated 8 Ω -16 Ω .

Bi-amping the front speakers (FRONT BI-AMP)

For bi-amp playback you can connect both the A and B speaker terminals to your front speakers. To do this your speakers must be bi-wireable (that is they must have separate terminals for the high and low frequencies).

Bi-amping delivers more power to the front speakers, but disables the surround back speakers, so you will be limited to 5.1 channel playback.

SPEAKERS				SURROUND BACK / ı
Å	R FRONT L	CENTER	R SURROUND L
				R	L

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FRONT Speaker rear side

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Hi

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Lo

Caution!

Most speakers with both Hi and Low terminals have two metal plates that connect the Hi to the Low terminals. These must be removed when you are bi-amping the speakers or you could severely damage the amplifier. See your speaker manual for more information.

Caution!

Do not allow any speaker wire from any terminal to touch a wire from a different terminal.

1Connect your speakers as shown.

Since both Front A and B speaker terminals output the same audio, it doesn’t matter which set (A or

B)is powering which part (HI or LOW) of the speaker.

2Select FRONT BI-AMP in the

SURRBACK SYSTEMS setup (see page 35).

The surround back channel amplifier is now used to power the B set of speaker terminals and the A+B (SP3AB) speaker setting is automatically selected. The speaker setting in this case can only be A+B or OFF.

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