10Other connections

Chapter 10:

Other connections

Caution

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the power outlet. Plugging in components should be the last connection you make with your system.

Be careful not to allow any contact between speaker wires from different terminals.

You can use speakers with a nominal impedance between 6–16(please see Switching the speaker impedance on page 74 if you plan to use speakers with an impedance of less than 8).

Second Zone speaker B setup

After selecting Second Zone in Surround back speaker setting on page 38, you can use the speakers connected to the (surround back) B speaker terminals on the rear panel to listen to stereo playback in another room. See Switching the speaker system below for the listening options with this setup.

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

Connect them the same way you connected your speakers in Connecting the speakers on page 20. Make sure to review Hints on speaker placement on page 21 when placing the speakers in another room.

2Select ‘Second Zone’ from the ‘Surr Back System’ menu.

See Surround back speaker setting on page 38 to do this.

Note

You can also use the multi-room feature to listen to stereo playback in another room. See Multi-room listening on page 58 for more on this.

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Switching the speaker system

If you selected Second Zone in Surround back speaker setting on page 38, three speaker system settings are possible using the SPEAKERS button. If you selected Normal (SB) or Front Bi-Amp, the button will simply switch your main speaker system on or off. The options below are for the Second Zone setting only.

Use the SPEAKERS button on the front panel to select a speaker system setting.

As mentioned above, if you have selected Normal (SB), the button will simply switch your main speaker system

(A) on or off.

TUNER

TUNING/

 

 

MIDNIGHT/

ACOUSTIC

DIALOG

MULTI CH

SIGNAL

EXTENDED

SPEAKERS

EDIT

STATION

BAND

MPX

LOUDNESS

TONE

EQ

ENHANCEMENT

IN

SELECT

MODE

TUNER

MULTI

 

 

 

MULTI

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTROL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOG

 

 

 

JOG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MULTI ROOM

 

 

 

 

VIDEO2 INPUT

 

 

SYSTEM

 

 

MCACC

 

 

 

 

 

 

SETUP

RETURN

CONTROL

ON/OFF

 

SETUP MIC

 

 

 

 

 

 

MULTI JOG

MULTI JOG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHONES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL IN

S-VIDEO

VIDEO

L AUDIO

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Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system option:

SP A – Sound is output from speaker system A and the same signal is output from the pre-out terminals.

SP B – Sound is output from the two speakers connected to speaker system B. Multichannel sources will not be heard. The same signal is output from the surround back channel pre-out terminals.

SP AB – Sound is output from speaker system A (up to 5 channels, depending on the source), the two speakers in speaker system B, and the subwoofer. The sound from speaker system B will be the same as the sound from speaker system A (multichannel sources will be downmixed to 2 channels).

SP (off) – No sound is output from the speakers. The same sound is output from the pre-out terminals (including from your subwoofer, if connected) as when selecting speaker system A (above).

Note

The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in Manual speaker setup on page 43. However,

if SP B is selected above, no sound is heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed).

Depending on the settings in Surround back speaker setting on page 38, output from the surround back pre-out terminals may change.

All speaker systems (except Second Zone connections) are switched off when headphones are connected.

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VSX-52TX specifications

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Incorporating Advanced MCACC (Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System), the VSX-52TX offers automatic speaker calibration, which fine-tunes the surround sound experience based on the unique acoustics of your room. This technology analyzes the speaker layout and optimizes the audio output for consistent and dynamic sound quality.

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