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Introduction to home theater

You are probably used to using stereo equipment to listen to music, but may not be used to home theater systems that give you many more options (such as surround sound) when listening to soundtracks.

Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio tracks to create a surround sound effect, making you feel like you're in the middle of the action or concert. The surround sound you get from a home theater system depends not only on the speakers you have set up in your room, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.

DVD-Video has become the basic source material for home theater due to its size, quality, and ease of use. Depending on the DVD, you can have up to seven different audio tracks coming from one disc, all of them being sent to different speakers in your system. This is what creates a surround sound effect and gives you the feeling of ‘being there’.

This receiver will automatically decode Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround DVD-Video discs, according to your speaker setup. In most cases, you won’t have to make changes for realistic surround sound, but other possibilities (like listening to a CD with multichannel surround sound) are explained in Listening to your system on page 30.

Listening to Surround Sound

This receiver was designed with the easiest possible setup in mind, so with the following quick setup guide, you should have your system hooked up for surround sound in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply leave the receiver in the default settings.

• Be sure to complete all connections before connecting this unit to an AC power source.

1 Hook up your DVD player.

For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital connection from the DVD player to the receiver. You can do this with either a coaxial (recommended), or an optical connection (you don’t need to connect both). If you hook up using an optical cable, you should refer to The Input Assign menu on page 63 to assign the optical input to DVD.

Use a video cord to connect the video output on your DVD player to the receiver using the jacks shown below.

2 Hook up your TV.

Use a video cord to connect your receiver to the TV using the jacks as shown below.

Optical cable

TV

VIDEO IN

Video cord

IN 1	OUT
) (TV/SAT)

DIGITAL OUT	Coaxial
	cable

DVD player

VIDEO OUT

S

DIGITAL

AM LOOP

MONITOR OUT

IN 2

IN 1

OUT

ANTENNA

Y

(CD-R/ TAPE/MD) (TV/SAT)

OUT

IN

OUT

AC OUTLET

CD

CONTROL

12V

IN

R

L

MULTI-ROOM & SOURCE

P

TRIGGER

ROOM & SOURCE

OUT

(DC OUT12V/

PLAY

PRE

100mA MAX)

1

4

OUT

MONITOR

P

PRE

AC 120 V 60Hz

CD-R/

TER

OUT

IN 3

REC

ASSIGNABLE

IN

CEN-

TAPE/MD

SUBW.

MONITOR

OUT

MONITOR

SWITCHED 100W (0 .8A) MAX

(DVD/

OUT

R

FRONT

OUT

Y

CEN- ROOM &

LD)

TV/

REC

L

OUT

MULTI-

VIDEO1

SUR-

VIDEO1

TERSOURCE

SAT

IN

ROUND

IN

P

IN

SPEAKERS

IN

R

L

IN 1

I R

SURROUND BACK /

SUR-

FRO

CENTER

SURROUND

B

4

PLAY

ROUND

IN

P

OUT

A R MONITORL

R

L

R

L (Single)

IN

IN

BACK

OUT

VCR

R

L

VCR

FRONT

SELECTABLE

DVD/

DVR /

(Single)

DVR /

RS - 232C

(CD)

OUT

TER

OUT

Y

CEN-

LD

IN 3

REC

(DVD/

SUBW.

LD)

TV/

TV/

SAT

FRONT

SAT

P

IN 4

IN

R

L

IN

IN 2

SUR-

VIDEO1

(CD)

DVD/

SUR-

DVD/

ROUND

IN

SELECTABLE

LD

ROUND

LD

P

ASSIGNABLE

IN

R

L

R

L

VCR IN

1 2

MULTI CH IN

VIDEO

S-VIDEO

VIDEO

DIGITAL

AUDIO

OUTVIDEO

TV/

FRONT

SAT

L

IN

SUR-

DVD/

ROUND

LD

L

IN

S-VIDEO

VIDEO

Video cord

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