Other connections

Chapter 10

Other connections

Caution

•Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the power outlet. Plugging in components should be the last connection you make with your system.

•Be careful not to allow any contact between speaker wires from different terminals.

•You can use speakers with a nominal impedance between 6–16Ω(please see Switching the speaker impedance on page 68 if you plan to use speakers with an impedance of less than 8Ω).

Second Zone speaker B setup

After selecting Second Zone in Surround back speaker setting on page 55, you can use the speakers connected to the (surround back) B speaker terminals on the rear panel to listen to stereo playback in another room. See Switching the speaker system below for the listening options with this setup.

1Connect a pair of speakers to the surround back speaker terminals on the rear panel.

Connect them the same way you connected your speakers in Connecting the speakers on page 29. Make sure to review Placing the speakers on page 29 when placing the speakers in another room.

2Select ‘Second Zone‘ from the ‘SurrBack System’ menu.

See Surround back speaker setting on page 55 to do this.

Note

•You can also use the multi-room feature to listen to stereo playback in another room. See Multi-room listening on page 73 for more on this.

Switching the speaker system

If you selected Second Zone in Surround back speaker setting on page 55, three speaker system settings are possible using the SPEAKERS button. If you selected Normal Surround, the button will simply switch your main speaker system on or off. The options below are for the Second Zone setting only

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•Use the SPEAKERS button on the front panel to select a speaker system setting.

As mentioned above, if you have selected Normal Surround, the button will simply switch your main speaker system (A) on or off.

Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system option:

• SP A – Sound is output from speaker system A and the same signal is output from the pre-out terminals.

• SP B – Sound is output from the two speakers connected to speaker system B. Multichannel sources will not be heard.

• SP AB – Sound is output from speaker system A (up to 5 channels, depending on the source), the two speakers in speaker system B. The sound from speaker system B will be the same as the sound from speaker system A (multichannel sources will be downmixed to 2 channels).

•SP (off) – No sound is output from the speakers. The same sound is output from the pre-out terminals as when selecting speaker system A (above).

Note

•The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in Normal surround setting on page 55.

However, if SP B is selected above, no sound is heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed).

•Depending on the settings in Normal surround setting on page 55 and Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 42, output from the surround back pre-out terminals may change.

•Some sources (for example, SACD (with SACD DIRECT switched on) and when MULTI CH IN is selected) will not be downmixed.

•All speaker systems are switched off when headphones are connected.

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