Pioneer VSX-45TX manual Speaker impedance, Bi-wiringyour speakers, Standby/On Speakers

Connecting Your Equipment

Speaker impedance

You can change the speaker impedance for VSX-45TX but we recommend using speakers with an imped- ance of 8 Ω -16 Ω (the default setting). If you are using 6 Ω - less than 8 Ω impedance speakers, you need to change the impedance setting. Use any speaker rated between 6 Ω -16 Ω .

STANDBY/ON

SPEAKERS

AUDIO/VID

STANDBY/ON

STANDBY

MULTI CHANNNEL

ACOUSTIC CALIBRATION

First put the receiver in STANDBY mode, then press the power button while holding down the SPEAKERS button.

MOVIE MUSIC ENTER

MULTI JOG

MULTI JOG

CONTROL

SIGNAL

HI-BIT

SB CH

BAND

CLASS

STATION TUNING

TUNER

MULTI ROOM &

SOURCE

SET UP

RETURN

SELECT

HI-SAMPLING

MODE

SELECT

EDIT

CONTROL

ON/OFF

PHONES

TONE CONTROL

SETUP

MULTI JOG/ENTER

SPEAKERS

TONE

BASS/TREBLE

MIC

DIGITAL IN

S-VIDEO

VIDEO

L

AUDIO

R

VIDEO INPUT

The receiver will reset to the new impedance setting. With this method you can choose the 8 Ω - 16 Ω setting or the 6 Ω -8 Ω setting.

To check which impedance setting to hold down the SPEAKERS button for 2-3 seconds. You'll get a display like these telling you the speaker impedance setting.

SIGNAL

ANALOG

SB CH

ON MOVIE AUTO OFF MUSIC

SP A B

SIGNAL

ANALOG

SB CH

ON MOVIE AUTO OFF MUSIC

SP A B

dB

dB

(This display indicates an

8Ω -16Ωimpedance setting.)

(This display indicates a 6Ω - less than 8Ω impedance setting.)

Bi-wiring your speakers

This high quality but difficult method of wiring speakers will be unnecessary for most users. In order to do this your speakers must be bi-wireable (that is they must have separate terminals for the high and low frequencies).

To bi-wire a speaker, connect two sets of speaker cords to each speaker terminal on the receiver. The easiest way to do this is to connect one wire in the normal way, and use a banana plug for the other one. Make sure you use a parallel (not series) connection when doing so. Don't connect different speakers from the same terminal in this way.

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