Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Digital Audio Components

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.

Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSX-D2011 has two coaxial and two optical inputs for a total of four digital inputs on the rear panel plus one digital input on the front panel. In order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS (among others) you need to make digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection (you don’t need to do both). The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some digital components only have one type of digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example, the coaxial out from the component to coaxial in on the receiver).

Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings (see next page) unless you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on page 91.

There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can make direct digital recordings with this unit.

We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see page 20) in order to make recordings (some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies).

*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.

 

PCM/

 

FM UNBAL 75

 

 

 

 

PRE OUT

 

 

 

AM LOOP

 

 

 

 

 

2DIGITAL /

ANTENNA

 

 

 

 

 

DTS/MPEG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT1

IN

 

 

 

 

CENTER

WOOFER

 

 

CONTROL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONITOR OUT 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT2

 

 

 

 

 

FRONT

 

 

 

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MONITOR OUT 1

 

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IN 1

 

 

 

 

PLAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SAT)

IN

 

 

IN

 

ROUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

R

L

 

IN 2

CD-R/

 

 

VCR1/

 

 

(CD-R/

TAPE1

 

 

DVR

 

SUR-

(Single)

 

TAPE1)

OUT

 

 

OUT

 

ROUND

 

 

 

 

 

BACK

 

 

 

REC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN 3

PLAY

 

 

 

 

FRONT

 

 

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IN

 

 

IN

 

 

 

 

LD)

MD/

 

 

VCR2

 

R

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN 4

TAPE2

 

 

 

 

SUR-

 

 

(CD)

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OUT

 

ROUND

 

 

REC

 

 

 

 

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CD

 

 

TV/

 

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IN

 

 

SAT

 

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ASSIGNABLE

 

 

 

IN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHONO/

 

 

DVD/

 

SUR-

 

 

 

LINE

 

 

 

ROUND

 

 

USB

 

 

LD

 

 

 

IN

 

 

 

BACK

 

 

AUDIO

 

 

 

IN

 

R

L

 

 

R

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R

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VIDEO

S VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL

 

AUDIO

AUDIO

 

VIDEO

MULTI CH IN

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

Satellite tuner

DIGITAL

DIGITAL

 

OUTPUT

INPUT

 

(PLAY)

(REC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD recorder

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

(not a PCM-only output) DVD player

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

CD player

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Pioneer VSX-D2011-G, VSX-D2011-S manual Connecting Digital Audio Components, Satellite tuner, CD recorder, CD player

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