Pioneer VSX-516-S/-K operating instructions Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . 5 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

03 Quick surround sound setup

Automatically setting up for surround

sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Other problems during Auto MCACC . . . . . 10

04 Connecting up

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Connecting a TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . 12

Connecting the multichannel analog

outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 14 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting other video components . . . . . . 15 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Speaker placement diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 19

05 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Remote control (VSX-516) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Remote control (VSX-416) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using surround back channel processing . . 31 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB) . . . . . . . 32 Using Midnight and Loudness. . . . . . . . . . . 33 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . 33

07 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . 34 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . 34 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Other setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . 40 Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

08 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Changing the frequency step. . . . . . . . . . . . 42

09 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . 43

10 Controlling the rest of your system

Setting the remote to control other components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Selecting preset codes directly . . . . . . . . . . 44 Direct function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Clearing all the remote control settings. . . . 45 Controls for TVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Controls for other components . . . . . . . . . . 47 Preset Code List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

06 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . 29 Setting the effect options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 30 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

11 Additional information

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Switching the speaker impedance. . . . . . . . 52 Power cord caution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Cleaning the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54