Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.

Contents

01 Before you start

 

04 Basic Setup

 

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7

Automatically setting up for surround

 

Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7

sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7

Other problems when using the Auto

 

Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8

MCACC Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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02 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 10 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

03 Connecting your equipment

Placing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Hints on the speaker placement. . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connect the surround back or front

height speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . 20 Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Analog audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About video outputs connection . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting a TV and playback components . . . 23 Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Connecting your component with no

HDMI terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR

and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . 26 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 26 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Connecting to the front panel video

terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

05 Listening to your system

Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the Advanced surround effects. . . . . 34 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . 35 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Better sound using Phase Control. . . . . . . . . 36 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 37 Using surround back channel processing . . . 37 Setting the Up Mix function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the headphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

06 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The Pre Out Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

07 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Listening to station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Naming preset stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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