Pioneer VSX-9300TX manual Contents, Before you start, 02 5 minute guide, Connecting your equipment

Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Checking the supplied accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Opening the front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Operating range of the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . 8

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting up for Surround Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Automatically setting up for surround sound . . . . . . 12

Other problems when using the Auto Surround Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)

player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

03 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 About cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Analog audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Video cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting a DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting the multichannel analog outputs . . . . 20

Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other

set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Connecting a component to the front panel inputs. . 27 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 About the AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Listening in surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The MOVIE listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 The MUSIC listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Adjusting the advanced effect level . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Listening with headphones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . 41 Selecting the input signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the surround back channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Listening with virtual surround back speakers . . . . . 44 Using the audio scaler for Hi-bit and Hi-sampling . . 44 Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the tone control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Switching the tone control on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Reducing noise during playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Listening to dual mono soundtracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

06 Using the tuner

Finding a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 MPX mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Memorizing station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Listening to memorized station presets . . . . . . . . . 49 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

07 The Surround Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the Surround

Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Normal surround setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Channel Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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