Pioneer Easy Setup for Your Surround Sound System with VSX-53TX

Easy Setup Guide Part 2	Easy Setup Guide Part 2
1 Auto Surround Sound Setup

If setting up your surround sound speakers seems like it's going to be an involved task you only need to use this quick, automatic method, known as the MCACC system, to achieve good surround sound. You'll need to hook up the microphone so that the receiver can hear and judge the distance, size, sound character and sound pressure level of the speakers and thus know what settings to make.

First turn the volume down, then plug the microphone into the SETUP MIC jack on the front panel of the receiver and put the microphone into its stand.

Follow the step-by-step guide to setting up your surround sound below. This will customize the surround sound for your listening environment. If you want to personalize your surround sound setups by making the settings manually go to "Setting Up for Surround Sound" (starting on page 36) and "EXPERT Setup" (starting on page 85). Make sure all the components you need, especially speakers, have been properly connected before you do the steps described here.

1			1 Hook up the microphone to the
			SETUP MIC jack on the Front Panel.
			2 Place the microphone at your normal
		microphone	listening position.
microphone		stand	Use a table, chair or something else to put the micro-
			phone at the same height as you usually listen to your
			system from.
Center Speaker	Front Speaker (R)		If you have a tripod you can affix the mic stand to it.
	Subwoofer	Surround	3 Switch on the receiver and your TV.
			Make sure your TV is set to this receiver as you will
		Speaker
Front		(R)	use the on-screen displays (OSDs) on your TV to fol-
			low these instructions.
Speaker		Surround
(L)
		Back
Listening		Speaker	4 If you have a subwoofer turn it on.
Position		(R)

EASY SETUP GUIDE

Surround Speaker (L)

Surround Back

Speaker (L)

5Press the RECEIVER button on the remote control.

6Press the SYSTEM SETUP button and use the on-screen display (OSD) that appears on your TV.

7The arrow should be pointing at SURROUND SETUP, press ENTER.

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