Pioneer VSX-C301 manual Quick start guide Chapter, Introduction, Easy Setup, English

Quick start guide

Chapter 1

Quick start guide

Introduction

This ‘Quick start guide’ shows you how to connect your speakers, TV and DVD player to this receiver, and also takes you through switching on and playing a DVD disc.

1Connect your speakers to the receiver, as shown in the diagram below.

Prepare the speaker cable by stripping about 1 cm of the plastic shielding from each speaker wire.

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Easy Setup

This section shows you how to connect your speakers, subwoofer, DVD player and TV to this receiver so you can start enjoying home cinema sound right away.

Before you start, make sure everything you’re connecting is switched off and unplugged.

Connect the front speakers to the FRONT L/R terminals; the center speaker to the CENTER terminal; and the surround speakers to the SURROUND L/R terminals.

Press on a tab to open a terminal; insert the exposed wire, then release the tab to secure.

Connecting speakers

This receiver has speaker terminals for front left and right speakers (L and R in the diagram), a center speaker (C) and two surround speakers (RS and LS). The minimum speaker configuration is just the front left/ right speakers, but we recommend connecting all five if possible. Note that surround speakers should always be connected as a pair; do not connect just one surround speaker. All the speakers you use should have a nominal impedance between 6–16Ω.

For correct sound it’s important that the positive and negative terminals of the receiver and each speaker are matched. To help you do this, attach the supplied colored self-adhesive labels to one half of each speaker cable.

2Connect a powered subwoofer to the SUBWOOFER OUT jack, as shown in the diagram below.

Use a standard audio cable with RCA/phono plugs.

		SPEAKERS
	FRONT	CENTER	SURROUND
R	L		R	L

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AM LOOP

		FMUNBAL75Ω
		DIGITAL IN
SUB	STB	DVR/TV	DVD
WOOFER	(DVD)		(STB)
OUT	OPT1	OPT2	COAX

AC IN

IN
	OUT
CONTROL	VIDEO IN/OUT	DVR/TV IN/OUT
		AV CONNECTOR
	DVD IN	STB IN

LINE LEVEL

R L C RS LS

SW

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