Pioneer VSX1017TXV manual Contents

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.

Contents

01 Before you start		04 Controls and displays
Features	6	Front panel	22
Checking what’s in the box	7	Operating range of remote control unit	23
Ventilation	7	Display	24
Installing the receiver	7	Remote control	25
Loading the batteries	7

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Automatically setting up for surround sound

(Auto MCACC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 10 Playing a source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Better sound using Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

03 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 When making cable connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting your TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other

set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a DVD/HDD recorder, VCR and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

About HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting a component to the front panel

inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Placing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Setting the effect options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using surround back channel processing . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Midnight and Loudness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

06 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Improving FM stereo sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

07 The System Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the System Setup

menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Manual MCACC setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Professional Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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