Pioneer VSX-819H-K 05Listening to your system Playing other sources, Choosing the input signal

05Listening to your system

Playing other sources

1Turn on the power of the playback component.

2Turn on the power of the receiver.

3Select the source you want to playback. Use the MULTI CONTROL buttons (INPUT SELECTOR).

4Start playback of the component you selected in step 1.

•HDMI – Selects an HDMI signal. H can be selected for BD/DVD, TV/SAT or DVR/VCR input. For other inputs, HDMI cannot be selected.2

When set to DIGITAL or HDMI, 2lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.

When the HDMI is selected, the A and DIGITAL indicators are off (see page 29).

Selecting the multichannel analog inputs

Choosing the input signal

On this receiver, it is possible to switch the input signals for the different inputs as described below.1

1Press RECEIVER on the remote control.

2Press SIGNAL SEL to select the input signal corresponding to the source component.

When DIGITAL (C1/O1/O2) or HDMI (H) is selected and the selected audio input is not provided, A (analog) is automatically selected.

Each press cycles through the following:

If you have connected a decoder or a BD/DVD player with multichannel analog outputs to this receiver (page 15), you must select the analog multichannel inputs for surround sound.3

•Press MULTI IN on the remote control. To cancel playback from the multichannel inputs, switches to the other input signal.

Using the headphone

1Insert the headphone into the PHONE jack.

•A – Selects the analog inputs.

•DIGITAL – Selects the digital input. The coaxial 1 input is selected for C1, and the optical 1 or 2 audio input is selected for O1 or O2.

2Press RECEIVER then press the SPEAKERS button to select SP OFF.

The sound is heard from the headphone and no sound is heard from the speakers connected to this receiver. The listening mode when the sound is heard from the headphone can be selected only from STEREO or A.L.C..

Note

1• This receiver can only play back Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz) and DTS (including DTS 96 kHz / 24 bit) digital signal formats. The compatible signals via the HDMI terminals are: Dolby Digital, DTS, SACD (DSD 2 ch), PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz sampling frequencies), Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-EXPRESS, DTS-HD Master Audio and DVD Audio (including 192 kHz). With other digital signal formats, set to A (analog) (the MULTI IN or TUNER).

•You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make the proper digital connections (page 14) and set the signal input to C1/O1/O2 (DIGITAL).

•Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.

2When the HDMI option in Setting the Audio options on page 38 is set to THRU, the sound will be heard through your TV, not from this receiver.

3• During playback from the multichannel inputs, you can’t use any of the sound features/modes and only the volume and channel levels can be set.

•Change the output settings of the systems with multichannel analog outputs according to the number of the speakers connected to the receiver.

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