Pioneer VSX-47TX manual Speaker Connections, Memo, Speaker terminals also

Quick Start Guide Part1

2Speaker Connections

Home theater is designed to be setup with five, or seven speakers (front left & right; center; surround left & right; and, optimally, surround back left & right) and a subwoofer, but you can use this receiver with fewer speakers. Hook up the speakers you have to the A speaker terminals on the back of the receiver. If you only have two speakers hook them up as "FRONT." If you have three hook up the single speaker as "CENTER." Follow the diagram below in order to hook up all your speakers. A center speaker is very important for watching films because in digital soundtracks the dialog comes from the center speaker. If you do not have a center speaker you must tell the receiver the center channel is off or when you listen to digital soundtracks you won't hear any dialog. This can be done automatically by following the Auto Surround Sound Setup instructions from page 13 in this Quick Start Guide.

If possible, use surround back speakers. These speakers are important to take full advantage of all the sound channels on new, eight channel home theater DVDs. The diagram below also explains how to hook up a subwoofer which provides realistic bass sounds. For the subwoofer use a mono (single plug) RCA cord and for the other speakers use regular speaker cords. See page 102–103 for advice on speaker placement.

Make sure you connect the speaker on the right to the R terminal and the speaker on the left to the L terminal. Also make sure the positive and negative (+/–) terminals on the receiver match those on the speakers.

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Front

subwoofer

TV/monitor

Front

speaker

speaker

(Left)

(Right)

Center

speaker

INPUT

CONTROL

Å

Surround

DIGITAL

MONITOR

IN

OUT

OUT

PCM/2DIGITAL/DTS

REMOTE IN

AC OUTLET

L

speaker

2

R

AUDIO L

MULTI-

OUT

MULTI-

AM LOOP

SOURCE

SOURCE

FRONT

OUT

ROOM &

ROOM &

(Left)

OUT

PHONO

/LD

IN

/LD

Y

ANTENNA

Surround

IN

ANTENNA

1

DVD

DVD

CD

POWER AMP

IN

IN

OUT

75Ω UNBAL

R

speaker

AUDIO

1 Y

MONITOR

FM

DIGITAL

IN

IN

TV

IN

(Right)

PCM/2DIGITAL/DTS

IN

PB

PB

R

L

CENTER

5

(CD-R/

FRONT

SAT

IN

TAPE1

IN

IN

/MD)

R

L

R

L

PR

PR

4

OUT

CENTER

(TV)

(SAT)

(VCR1

REC

OUT

OUT

IN

IN

L

AC IN

IN

/DVR)

CD-R/

VCR1

2 Y

Y 3

3

TAPE1

SUB W.

/DVR

SUR-

/MD

(SAT)

IN

PRE OUT

IN

IN

ROUND

IN

PLAY

1

2

PB

PB

OUT

(Single)

SUR-

R

IN 2

(CD)

ROUND

OUT

OUT

REC

PR

PR

ı

SELECTABLE

TAPE2

R

L

VCR2

MONITOR

SUR-

COMPONENT VIDEO ASSIGNABLE

(DVD

IN

ROUND

IN

IN

L

IN 1

BACK

L

(Single)

/LD)

PLAY

R

L (Single)

R AUDIO L

FRONT

SUB W.

CENTER

VIDEO

S VIDEO

SUR-

ROUND

R

L

BACK

SUR-

SUR-

R

R

(DVD

ROUND

ROUND

2RF

BACK

IN

/LD)

R

L

R

L (Single)

(For LD)

ASSIGNABLE

MULTI CH INPUT

Surround back	Surround back
speaker (Left)	speaker (Right)

memo • Please use speakers with a nominal impedance rated 6Ω -16Ω .

• If you only have one surround back speaker hook it up to the left surround back terminal.

•If you use a THX certified subwoofer use the THX INPUT jack on the subwoofer (if your subwoofer has one) or switch the filter position to THX on your subwoofer.

•When you attached your speaker wire to the speaker terminal make sure that not even one strand of wire touches the back of the receiver. If this happens it could short out the receiver.

7 Speaker terminals			The speaker terminals also
1 Twist exposed wire	2 Loosen speaker terminal	3 Tighten	accept single banana plugs.
			(Refer to speaker manual for
strands together	and insert exposed wire.	terminal.
			details.)
tightly.

3/8 in(10mm)

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