Preparation

General Notes on connections

Never make or change connections with the power switched on.

Depending on the equipment you wish to connect, there are various ways you could connect this unit. Possible connections are shown in the following drawings.

Please refer to the manuals of other equipment as necessary to make the best connections.

Do not connect this unit via your VCR. The video quality could be distorted by the copy protection system.

Do not connect this unit’s audio out jack to the phono in jack of your audio system.

Note:

If the audio format of the digital output does not match the capabilities of your receiver, the receiver will produce a strong, distorted sound or no sound at all. Make sure to select the appropriate audio format at menu screen included on the disc. Pressing AUDIO once or more may change not only audio languages but also audio formats, and the selected format appears for several seconds on the status window.

Analog Connections

Use the supplied audio pin cable to connect AUDIO OUT L (left) and R (right) jacks of this unit to corresponding input jacks of your audio equipment such as Stereo amplifier.

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Digital Connections

This unit has COAXIAL and OPTICAL digital out jacks. Connect one or both of them to your AV receiver equipped with Dolby digital, DTS, or MPEG decoder using a commercially available cable.

CO

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

AV receiver

 

IN

IN

 

 

 

 

 

Subwoofer

 

 

Center

 

 

 

speaker

Right front

 

Left front

 

speaker

speaker

Left surround

Surround

Right surround

speaker

back speaker

speaker

You will need to set this unit’s digital output to ALL (see page 19 “DIGITAL OUTPUT”).

R

L

Audio pin cable

Stereo

R

L

amplifier

 

 

 

1

CD/DVD

 

 

R

L

Left

 

Right

 

speaker

speaker

 

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Yamaha DVD-S557 owner manual Preparation, General Notes on connections, Analog Connections, Digital Connections