Pioneer VSX-59TXi Contents, Before you start, Connecting your equipment, Controls and displays

Contents

Our philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

01 Before you start

Checking the supplied accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Operating range of the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Recharging the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting up the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Calibrating the remote control screen . . . . . . . . . . 10 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Setting the button alert volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Setting the time-out setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Resetting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Locking the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Restarting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Replacing the lithium-ion batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

02 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting a DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting the multichannel analog outputs . . . . 18

Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other

set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Connecting a component to the front panel inputs. . 25 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 About the AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Basic remote control displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Remote control displays for the tuner . . . . . . . . . . 35 Remote control displays for other components . . . 36

04 Getting started

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Automatically setting up for surround sound . . . . . . 39

Other problems when using the Auto Surround Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)

player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

05 Listening to your system

About the listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Listening with headphones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the Stream Direct mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . 48 Selecting the input signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Selecting USB and multichannel analog

input channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Listening to high-sampling formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the surround back channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Listening with virtual surround back speakers . . . . . 51 Creating a center speaker effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using Hi-bit and Hi-sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . . . . . . . 52 Using the tone control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Switching the tone control on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Reducing noise during playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Listening to dual mono soundtracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

06 Using the tuner

Finding a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 MPX mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Memorizing station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Listening to memorized station presets . . . . . . . . . 56

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