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
05 Listening to your system
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . 31 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . 32 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 33 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB) . . . . . . . . 33 Setting the AV options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 36 Selecting the front audio inputs . . . . . . . . . . 36
03 Connecting up
Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Connecting a DVD player and TV . . . . . . . . . 12
Connecting the multichannel analog
outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a satellite receiver or
other digital
Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder,
VCR and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting to the front panel audio
mini jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting to the front panel video
terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Speaker placement diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . 22
04 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 29
06 The System Setup menu
Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
07 Using the tuner
Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
08 Making recordings
Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 50
