Pioneer VSX-917V Contents, Before you start, 02 5 minute guide, Connecting up, Using the tuner

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Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Ventilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Other problems when using the Auto

MCACC Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Better sound using Phase Control . . . . . . . . 10

03 Connecting up

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting a DVD player and TV . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting the multichannel analog

outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 15 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting other video components . . . . . . 16 Using the component video jacks. . . . . . . . 17

Connecting to the front panel video

terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting to the front panel audio

mini jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 20 AC outlet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 27

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . 29 Setting the effect options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . 30 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 31 Using surround back channel processing . . . 31 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB). . . . . . . 32 Using Midnight and Loudness. . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 34 Selecting the front audio inputs . . . . . . . . . . 34

06 The System Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the System Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

07 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

08 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 46