Rotel RSX-1057 owner manual About Rotel, Getting Started, Key Features, English

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About Rotel

A family whose passionate interest in music led them to manufacture high fidelity com- ponents of uncompromising quality founded Rotel 40 years ago. Through the years that passion has remained undiminished and the family goal of providing exceptional value for audiophiles and music lovers regard- less of their budget, is shared by all Rotel employees.

The engineers work as a close team, listening to, and fine tuning each new product until it reaches their exacting musical standards. They are free to choose components from around the world in order to make that product the best they can. You are likely to find capacitors from the United Kingdom and Germany, semi conductors from Japan or the United States, while toroidal power transformers are manu- factured in Rotel’s own factory.

Rotel’s reputation for excellence has been earned through hundreds of good reviews and awards from the most respected review- ers in the industry, who listen to music every day. Their comments keep the company true to its goal - the pursuit of equipment that is musical, reliable and affordable.

All of us at Rotel, thank you for buying this product and hope it will bring you many years of enjoyment.

“DTS”, “DTS-ES Extended Surround”, “DTS ES® Matrix 6.1”, and “DTS ES® Discrete 6.1”, and “DTS Neo:6®”are trade- marks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.

Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dol- by”, “Pro Logic”, and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

, HDCD®, High Definition Compatible Digital ® and Pacific Microsonics™ are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Pacific Microsonics, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. HDCD system manufactured under license from Pacific Microsonics, Inc. This product is covered by one or more of the following: In the USA: 5,479,168, 5,638,074, 5,640,161, 5,808,574, 5,838,274, 5,854,600, 5,864,311, 5,872,531, and in Australia: 669114. Other patents pending.

Getting Started

Thank you for purchasing the Rotel RSX-1057 Surround Sound Receiver. The RSX-1057 is four products in one:

1.A digital audio/video processor for a wide range of formats including Dolby Surround®, Dolby Digital®, DTS® and HDCD® source material.

2.A full-featured audio/video control cen- ter for analog and digital source compo- nents.

3.A high-quality AM/FM tuner with RDS capability.

4.A 5-channel power amplifier to drive two front speakers (or two center back speak- ers), a center channel speaker, and two rear surround speakers.

Key Features

•Rotel’s Balanced Design Concept combines advanced circuit board layout, compre- hensive parts evaluation, and extensive listening tests for superior sound and long term reliability.

•Dolby® Pro Logic IIx®decoding (for 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 channel systems) with improved separation and frequency response for Dolby Surround® matrix encoded record- ings. Can be optimized for Music or Cin- ema sources.

•Automatic Dolby Digital® decoding Dol- by Digital® 2.0, Dolby Digital® 5.1, and Dolby Digital Surround EX® recordings.

•Automatic decoding for DTS® 5.1 channel, DTS-ES®Matrix 6.1 channel, DTS-ES®Dis- crete 6.1 channel, and DTS 96/24 digital recordings.

•Rotel XS (eXtended Surround) automatical- ly ensures proper decoding and optimum performance from any multichannel digi- tal signal on 6.1 and 7.1 channel systems. Always active in any system with center back speaker(s), Rotel XS even works with signals that would not otherwise activate the proper decoding (such as non-flagged DTS-ES and Dolby Surround EX discs) or for which there is no extended surround decoder (such as DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, and even Dolby Pro Logic II decoded Dolby Digital 2.0 recordings).

•DTS® Neo:6® Surround modes for deriv- ing surround channels for 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 channel systems from 2-channel stereo or matrix surround recordings. Can be opti- mized for Music or Cinema sources.

•Automatic HDCD® decoding for signals from High Definition Compatible Digital® compact discs.

•Surround modes for playback of surround sound material on 2 channel and 3 chan- nel systems for total compatibility.

•Automatic decoding of digital signals from MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) players.

•Analog input and output video connections for use with Composite video, S-Video, and Component Video signals, including conversion to Component Video output.

•HDMI (Ver. 1.1) switching for digital video signals up to 1080p. Compatible with DVI components with HDMI-DVI adapter.

•Optical digital, coax digital, and analog input and output audio connections.

•Five built-in amplifier channels, each de- livering 75 watts (all channels driven).

•AM/FM tuner with 30 station presets, di- rect access tuning, and auto-tuning.

•RDS (Radio Data Systems) and RBDS (Ra- dio Broadcast Data Service) capability.

•Zone 2 output with independent input se- lection and volume adjustments for multi- zone custom installations along with IR- repeater capability for operation from the remote zone.

•MULTI Input for outboard adapter and future upgradeabilty

•User friendly ON-SCREEN DISPLAY with programmable labels for video compo- nents. Choice of languages.

•Universal learning remote control to op- erate the RSX-1057 and other compo- nents.

•Upgradeable microprocessor software to accommodate future upgrades.