Pioneer VSX-AX10Ai-G Contents, Before you start, Connecting your equipment, Controls and displays

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Our philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

01 Before you start

Checking the supplied accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Operating range of the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Recharging the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Setting up the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Calibrating the remote control screen . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting the button alert volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting the time-out setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Resetting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Locking the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Restarting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Replacing the lithium-ion batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting the multichannel analog outputs . . . . 16

Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other

set-topbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting a component to the front panel inputs. . 23 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 About the supplied AC power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Basic remote control displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Remote control displays for the tuner . . . . . . . . . . 33 Remote control displays for other components . . . 34

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04 Getting started

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Automatically setting up for surround sound . . . . . . 37

Other problems when using the Auto Surround Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)

player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

05 Listening to your system

About the listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Listening with headphones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the Stream Direct mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . 46 Selecting the input signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting USB and multichannel analog input channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Listening to high-sampling formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the surround back channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Listening with virtual surround back speakers . . . . . 49 Creating a center speaker effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using Hi-bit and Hi-sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using the tone control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Switching the tone control on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Reducing noise during playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Listening to dual mono soundtracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

06 Using the tuner

Changing the frequency step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Finding a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 MPX mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Memorizing station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Listening to memorized station presets . . . . . . . . . 55

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