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Introduction to home theater

Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio tracks to create a surround sound effect, making you feel like you’re in the middle of the action or concert. The surround sound you get from a home theater system depends not only on your speaker setup, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.

This receiver will automatically decode multichannel Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround sources according to your speaker

2Connect your speakers and place them for optimal surround sound.

See Connecting the speakers on page 22.

Where you place the speakers will have a big effect on the sound. Place your speakers as shown below for the best surround sound effect. Also see Placing the speakers on page 24 for more on this.

Subwoofer (SW)

Front Listening

Right (R) position

Surround

Front Right (SR)

Left (L)

setup. In most cases, you won’t have to make changes for realistic surround sound, but other possibilities (like listening to a CD with

Center (C)

Surround Left (SL)

Surround Back Right (SBR)

multichannel surround sound) are explained in Listening to your system on page 34.

Listening to Surround Sound

With the following quick setup guide, you should have your system hooked up for surround sound in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply leave the receiver in the default settings.

•Be sure to complete all connections before connecting to an AC power source.

1Connect your TV and Blu-ray Disc player or DVD player.

See Connecting a TV and Blu-ray Disc player or DVD player on page 14 to do this. For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital connection from the BD/DVD player to the receiver.

Surround Back

Left (SBL)

Important

•To connect the surround back speakers, an

additional amplifier is required. Connect the additional amplifier to the PRE OUT SURROUND BACK outputs of this unit and connect the surround back speakers to the additional amplifier. For details, see Use the PRE OUT outputs to connect the surround back speakers on page 23.

3Plug in and switch on the receiver, followed by your BD/DVD player, subwoofer and TV.

Make sure you’ve set the video input on your TV to this receiver. Check the manual that came with the TV if you don’t know how to do this.

4Use the on-screen automatic MCACC setup to set up your system.

See Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) on page 9 for more on this.

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