Contents
01 Before you start
Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Ventilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
02 5 minute guide
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
03 Quick surround sound setup
Automatically setting up for surround
sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Other problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
04 Connecting up
Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting a DVD player and TV . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting the multichannel analog
outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a satellite receiver or other
digital
Connecting to the front panel video
terminal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
05 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 27
06 Listening to your system
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . 29 Setting the effect options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . 30 Using surround back channel processing . . 31 Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB). . . . . . 31 Using Midnight and Loudness. . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . 33
07 USB playback
Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Compressed audio compatibility. . . . . . . . 35
08 The System Setup menu
Making receiver settings from the System Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . 36 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . 37
Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
09 Using the tuner
Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Changing the frequency step. . . . . . . . . . . . 46
