Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A1020 1Connecting speakers

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1Connecting speakers

The unit has 7 built-in amplifiers. You can connect 2 to 9 speakers and up to 2 subwoofers to create the favorite acoustic space in your room.

You can also apply bi-amp connections, channel expansion (using an external power amplifier) or multi-zone configurations to enhance your system (p.19).

Caution

•Under its default settings, the unit is configured for 8-ohm speakers. When connecting 6-ohm speakers, set the unit’s speaker impedance to “6 Ω MIN”. In this case, you can also use 4-ohm speakers as the front speakers. For details, see “Setting the speaker impedance” (p.16).

Functions of each speaker

Speaker type	Abbr.	Function
Front (L)	1	Produce front right/left channel sounds (stereo sounds).
Front (R)	2
Center	3	Produces center channel sounds (such as movie dialogues and vocals).
Surround (L)	4	Produce surround right/left channel sounds. Surround speakers also
		produce surround back channel sounds when no surround back
Surround (R)	5
		speakers are connected.
Surround	6
back (L)		Produce surround back right/left channel sounds.
Surround	7
back (R)
Front	E	Produce CINEMA DSP effect sounds. In combination with CINEMA DSP
presence (L)
		3D (p.54), the front presence speakers create a natural 3-dimensional
Front
	R	sound field in your room.
presence (R)
		Produces LFE (low-frequency effect) channel sounds and reinforces
Subwoofer	9	bass parts of other channels.
		This channel is counted as “0.1”. You can connect 2 subwoofers to the
		unit and place them on the right/left (or front/rear) sides of the room.

•We recommend using front presence speakers to have a full effect of the 3-dimensional sound fields. However, the unit creates Virtual Presence Speaker (VPS) using the front, center and surround speakers to produce 3-dimensional sound fields even when no front presence speakers are connected (p.54).

•Use “Ideal speaker layout” (diagram on the right) as reference. You do not need to exactly adjust the speaker layout to this diagram since the YPAO function of the unit will automatically optimize the speaker settings (such as distances) to suit the speaker layout.

•When using only one surround back speaker, place it straight behind the listening position (middle of “SBL” and “SBR” in the diagram).

Ideal speaker layout

E0.5 to 1 m				0.5 to 1 mR
		(1.6 to 3.3 ft)		(1.6 to 3.3 ft)
	1.8 m		1	2	1.8 m
	(5.9 ft)				(5.9 ft)

9 3 9

4 5

10°~30° 10°~30°

6 7

30 cm (1 ft) or more

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