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Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Listening to Surround Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Other problems when using the

Auto MCACC Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Better sound using Phase Control. . . . . . . . . 11

03 Connecting up

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 HDMI cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About video outputs connection . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a TV and Blu-ray Disc player

or DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting the multichannel analog

outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 17

Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR

and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting to the front panel video

terminal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Use the PRE OUT outputs to connect

the surround back speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 28 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . 35 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . 36 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 37 Using surround back channel processing . . . 37

Setting the Up Mix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 41 Using the headphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

06 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Speaker Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

07 Using the MULTI-ZONE feature

MULTI-ZONE listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Making MULTI-ZONE connections . . . . . . . 47 Using the MULTI-ZONE controls . . . . . . . . . 48

08 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Improving FM stereo sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Changing the frequency step . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

09 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 51

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