Pioneer VSX-C100-S No Frills Setup, Hook up your DVD player, speakers, subwoofer and TV

Quick Start Guide

No Frills Setup

This receiver was designed with the easiest possible setup in mind so if you just want to hook up your equipment and start enjoying quality home theater movies follow the four steps below and use these easy settings on the VSX-C100/ C100-S. In most cases you can leave the receiver in the default settings.

Default Settings:

•Speaker Setting: Automatically sensed by the receiver

•Input Setting: DVD

•Signal Select: AUTO

•Listening Mode: AUTO

•Sound Mode: NATURAL

1) Hook up your DVD player, speakers, subwoofer and TV.

Connect your DVD player to this unit using either the coaxial digital terminal or the optical digital terminals, depending on which type of digital terminal your DVD has. The quality of these two types of connection is the same so it’s simply a matter of matching like with like, and you don’t need to do both. It is easiest, however, if you follow this receiver’s default settings and connect your DVD player to coaxial terminal. If your DVD player does not have an coaxial terminal, use one of the optical terminal to hook it up to this receiver. (In this case you need to assign the DVD function to that terminal. See p.33 in order to do this.) Follow the diagram below to hook up your DVD player to either the coaxial or optical terminal(s). Then, hook up the speakers you want to use with this receiver. This receiver can be used with just two speakers but it’s better to have five speakers to get accurate surround sound. See pages 18-19 for more details on connecting your speakers. Next, hook up your powered subwoofer, if you have one. For all speakers make sure to connect the positive (+) and negative (–) terminals on the receiver and speakers with the same wire (positive to positive, negative to negative).

Before hooking up your speakers affix the color-coded sticker with the appropriate name (for example, “FRONT R”) to the speaker wire so you always know which speaker that wire is connected to.

While pressing down the speaker tab push the speaker wire into the terminal and release speaker terminal tab.

T V/	T V/
SAT	SAT
(DVD)	IN
OPT1
DVR /	DVR/
VCR	VCR
OPT2	IN
DVD	DVD
( T V /
SAT)	IN
COA X	R	L
DIGITAL IN		AUDIO

1

MONITOR

OUT

2

F M UNBAL75 Ω AM LOOP

ANTENNA

R	L
DVR /
VCR
OUT

VIDEO AUDIO

R

SUB

WOOFER

OUT

FRONT

SPEAKERS	SURROUND		AC IN
L CENTER R		L

IN OUT

CONTROL

Optical cable	Coaxial cable
	(sold separately)
(sold sepa-
	Audio cord	Speaker wire
rately, don’t
	(sold separately)	(sold separately)
pinch or bend
cable sharply)

LINE LEVEL

DIGITAL AUDIO OUT

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

DVD Player

(DV-353, etc.)

When you’re hooking up your subwoofer make sure its power cord is disconnected.

Front R

(R)

Powered Subwoofer (SW)

Front L	Center	Surround R	Surround L
(L)	(C)	(RS)	(LS)

If you only hook up two speakers set the Listening mode to one of the modes for two channel outputs.

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