Pioneer VSX-817-S/-K Second Zone speaker B setup, Bi-ampingyour front speakers, Other connections

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Second Zone speaker B setup

After selecting Second Zone in Surround back speaker setting on page 34, 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 18. Make sure to review Hints on speaker placement on page 19 when placing the speakers in another room.

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

See Surround back speaker setting on page 34 to do this.

Switching the speaker system

If you selected Second Zone in Surround back speaker setting on page 34, three speaker system settings are possible using the SPEAKERS button. If you selected Normal (SB) or Front Bi-Amp, the speaker system is fixed as SPA or SPAB (respectively). The options

below are for the Second Zone setting only.1

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

SOUND	MIDNIGHT/	SB ch
RETRIEVER LOUDNESS PROCESSING			TONE
	SIGNAL	TUNING/	TUNER
SPEAKERS	SELECT	STATION	EDIT	SETUP	RETURN

MULTI JOG

Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system option:

•SPA – Sound is output from the speakers connected to the A speaker terminals (multichannel playback is possible).

•SPB – Sound is output from the two speakers connected to speaker system B (only stereo playback is possible).

•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. Multichannel sources (heard through speaker system A) are downmixed for stereo output from speaker system B.

Bi-amping your front speakers

Bi-amping is when you connect the high frequency driver and low frequency driver of your speakers to different amplifiers (in this case, to both front and surround back terminals) for better crossover performance. Your speakers must be bi-ampable to do this (having separate terminals for high and low) and the sound improvement will depend on the kind of speakers you’re using.

1Connect your speakers as shown below. This illustration below shows the connections for bi-amping your front left speaker. Hook up your front right speaker in the same way.

	S	FRONT	SURROUND	L	CENTER	R	SURROUND BACK	L
		R	L R
	P
	E
Front left	A	A						B
	K
speaker	E
	R
	S

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Note

1• The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in Speaker Setting on page 40. However, if SPB is selected above, no sound is heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed).

•Depending on the Surround back speaker setting on page 34 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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