Pioneer VSX-47TX Speaker System B Setup, Stereo playback in another room, Bi-wiring your speakers

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Speaker System B Setup

Stereo playback in another room

Connect a pair of speakers to the B speaker terminals to listen to stereo playback in another room (kitchen, bedroom, etc.). Select NORMAL SURROUND and choose the speaker system setup that you want. See the next page for more details on these speaker system settings.

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

Bi-amping the front speakers

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.

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.

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L

FRONT

Watch that +/- connections are properly inserted (they are in opposite positions for A and B speaker terminals).

2Select BI-AMP(5.1). If you need more information on how to do

this see page 37, step 3.

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.

R

CENTER

L

SUR-

ROUND

R

L (Single)

SUR-

ROUND

BACK

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L

FRONT Speaker rear side

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Hi

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.

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R

Bi-wiring your speakers

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 speak- ers from the same terminal in this way.

70 When using this kind of connection, select NORMAL SURROUND.