PREPARATION

mConnecting to digital (OPTICAL and COAXIAL) terminals

If your CD player, MD recorder, LD player, DVD player, TV/satellite tuner, etc. are equipped with coaxial or optical digital audio signal output terminals, they can be connected to this unit’s COAXIAL or OPTICAL, or both terminals.

Digital audio signals are transmitted with less loss than analog audio signals. In addition, digital audio signal connections are necessary, especially for an LD player, a DVD player or a CD player to send signals encoded with Dolby Digital or DTS to this unit.

To make an optical digital connection between this unit and an external unit, remove the cover from each optical terminal, and then connect them by using a commercially available optical fiber cable that conforms to EIAJ standards. Other cables might not function correctly.

Even if you connect an audio/video unit to the OPTICAL (or COAXIAL) terminal of this unit, you must keep the unit connected with the same named analog audio signal terminals of this unit, because digital signal cannot be recorded by a tape deck or VCR connected to only analog audio signal terminals of this unit. You can switch the selection of input signals between “digital” and “analog” easily. (See page 38 for details.)

*However, if you connect an MD recorder or DAT to this unit’s OPTICAL TAPE/MD IN and OUT terminals, it can record input sources connected to this unit’s OPTICAL digital signal input terminals.

<U.S.A. and Canada models>

CD player

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

DIGITAL OUT

DIGITAL OUT

(U.S.A. model)

 

 

AUDIO SIGNAL

AUDIO SIGNAL

VIDEO

VIDEO SIGNAL

 

 

 

 

 

S VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHONO

 

DVD/LD

 

DVD/LD

 

1

 

 

TV/DBS

 

TV/DBS

 

CD

 

 

 

AM

3

 

 

IN

 

IN

ANT

IN

 

 

 

 

(PLAY)

 

 

 

 

 

GND

TAPE/MD

 

VCR 1

 

VCR 1

4

 

 

OUT

 

OUT

 

OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(REC)

 

 

 

 

 

FM

MAIN

 

 

IN

 

IN

ANT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

75Ω

 

 

 

VCR 2

 

VCR 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNBAL.

SURROUND

 

OUT

 

OUT

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXTERNAL

 

 

ZONE 2

 

 

 

DECODER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

 

 

 

INPUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUB WOOFER

CENTER

 

S VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONITOR

COAXIAL

 

 

 

 

OPTICAL

OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN

OUT

 

VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

CD

DVD/LD

CD

(PLAY)

TAPE/MD (REC) DVD/LD TV/DBS

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL SIGNAL

 

 

OPTICAL

OPTICAL

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

OPTICAL

DIGITAL

DIGITAL

DIGITAL

DIGITAL

DIGITAL

OUT

IN

OUT

OUT

OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MD recorder, DAT,

LD player or DVD player

TV/Satellite tuner

 

etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:Optical fiber cable

:Coaxial cable

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