Stereo playback in another room Second Zone

Using Other Functions

SECOND ZONE (Speaker System B)/FRONT BI-AMP Setup

Stereo playback in another room (SECOND ZONE)

This setup enables you to listen to a pair of stereo speakers independently of the main speaker system hooked up to the receiver. You can choose SECOND ZONE, and use the speakers hooked up to the surround back terminals as a B speaker system, that is, playing the same source as the main speaker system but from independent stereo speakers.

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

2Select SECOND ZONE in the SURRBACK SYSTEM setup (see page 37) setup.

memo	Please use speakers with a nominal impedance rated 8	Ω Ω
	Please use speakers with a nominal impedance rated 8	-16 .

Bi-amping the front speakers (FRONT BI-AMP)

For bi-amp playback you can connect both the A and B speaker terminals to your front speakers. To do this your speakers must be bi-wireable (that is they must have separate terminals for the high and low frequencies).

Bi-amping delivers more power to the front speakers, but disables the surround back speakers, so you will be limited to 5.1 channel playback.

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FRONT Speaker rear side

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Caution!

Most speakers with both HI and LOW terminals have two metal plates that connect the HI to the LOW terminals. These must be removed when you are bi-amping the speakers or you could severely damage the amplifier. See your speaker manual for more information.

Caution!

Do not allow any speaker wire from any terminal to touch a wire from a different terminal.

1Connect your speakers as shown.

Since both Front A and B speaker terminals output the same audio, it doesn’t matter which set (A or

B)is powering which part (HI or LOW) of the speaker.

2 Select FRONT BI-AMP in the SURRBACK SYSTEM setup (see page 37).

The surround back channel amplifier is now used to power the B set of speaker terminals and the A+B (SP3AB) speaker setting is automatically selected. The speaker setting in this case can only be A+B or OFF.

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Pioneer VSX-D2011-G, VSX-D2011-S manual Second Zone Speaker System B/FRONT BI-AMP Setup

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