RX-V2600
 Special Instructions for U.K. Model
For U.K. customers
 Contents
 Features
 Please check that you received all of the following parts
Supplied accessories
Getting Started
 Installing batteries Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control
Installing batteries in the remote controls
 Opening and closing the front panel door
Handling the remote control
Approximately 6 m
To open, press gently on the lower part of the panel
 Master ON/OFF Audio Select
Controls and Functions
Multi CH Input
Main Zone ON/OFF
 Tuning Mode AUTO/MAN’L, Display
PRESET/TUNING Edit
Volume
FM/AM
 GUI TOP, Band
Remote control
Macro ON/OFF
Macro
 Volume +
Power
PTY Seek Mode
Standby
 Preset +
Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control
ID1/ID2 switch
Volume +
 Front panel display
 PTY Hold
 Wrench Holder
Rear panel
Voltage Selector
AC Outlets
 Connections
Before connecting speakers
 Di-pole speaker layout
Connecting speakers
Connecting to the speaker terminals
 Red positive + Black negative
10 mm
Speaker terminal wrench Red positive + Black negative
 Speaker layout
Connecting the banana plug
PRESENCE/ZONE 23 terminals
Connect presence speakers to these terminals
 PRE OUT
Right Left Surround speakers Surround back speakers
 Bi-wire connection
Using bi-wire and bi-AMP connections
Conventional connection
Bi-AMP connection
 Digital jacks
Cable indications
Analog jacks
 Audio jacks
Audio signal flow for OUT REC
Audio jacks Digital Audio Optical jacks
Digital Audio Coaxial jacks
 Video jacks
Video signal flow for Monitor OUT
Video jacks
Component Video jacks
 Hdmi Video Monitor
Connecting Hdmi components
Hdmi out DVD Player Cable TV or
 Connecting a DVD player
Connecting video components
 Satellite tuner
Connecting other video components
Video Monitor
DVD recorder Or VCR
 Connecting to the Video AUX jacks on the front panel
Connecting to the Multi CH Input jacks
 CD recorder
Connecting audio components
MD recorder or tape deck
CD player
 Connecting an external amplifier
 Connecting the AM loop antenna
Connecting the antennas
Indoor FM antenna included
Ground GND terminal AM loop antenna included
 Connecting the AC power cable
Connecting the power cable
AC Outlets Switched
Turning on and off this unit
 This unit will be set to the standby mode
Setting the speaker impedance
This unit, Zone 2 and Zone 3 are turned off
SP IMP.-8ΩMIN appears in the front panel display
 Introduction
Auto Setup
Optimizer microphone setup
 Subwoofer
Using Auto Setup
Top display appears
 For Equalizing, press k / n to select
For Wiring, Distance, Size or Level, select
Press n to select Setup Type and then select
 If you set Setup Type to Step
If you set Setup Type to Auto
Confirming the results
Press n to select Start and then press
 Auto Setup
 Playback
Turn on the power of the video monitor
Basic operations
Connected to this unit
 Program name
Front panel Remote control Name of the sound field category
Dial Norm
 Using Silent Cinema
Adjusting the tonal quality
Press Mute on the remote control
Additional operations
 Selecting the Multi CH Input
To play back Dolby Digital or DTS signals in 5.1 channels
Enjoying multi-channel software 7.1 channel surround
Auto
 Decoder types for the Surround program
Press Select on the remote control to select a decoder
Enjoying 2-channel software in surround
 Using the night listening modes
Using Pure Direct
Choices MIN, MID, MAX
Lights up
 Listening to unprocessed input signals
Using the sleep timer
Downmixing to 2 channels
Straight
 Selecting audio input modes
Virtual Cinema DSP
Playing video sources Background
 Video Info. Video information
Displaying information about the input Source
Audio Info. Audio information
 Front panel or
Turn on the power of this unit and all connected components
Recording
 Automatic tuning
FM/AM Tuning
Press PRESET/TUNING l / h once to begin
Automatic tuning
 Automatic preset tuning
Manual tuning
 Customized automatic preset tuning
 See page 47 for tuning instructions
Manual preset tuning
Memory indicator flashes for about 5 seconds
Preset station group
 Repeat steps 1 to 5 to store other stations
Selecting preset stations
 Press and hold PRESET/TUNING Edit for more than 3 seconds
Exchanging preset stations
Press PRESET/TUNING Edit again
2,4
 Receiving Radio Data System stations
Changing the Radio Data System mode
 Press Preset k / n to select the desired program type
Press PTY Seek Mode to set this unit in the PTY Seek mode
PTY Seek function
Selected program type appears in the front panel display
 EON function
To cancel this function
 Changing parameter settings
What is a sound field?
Editing Sound Field Parameters
Elements of a sound field
 Following display appears
Initializing sound field programs
To initialize all sound field programs
Use the Sur.Initialize parameter in the Option menu see
 For movie/video sources
Sound Field Program Descriptions
Sources Control
Program
 Remote Category Sources Control
 7ch Stereo
For music sources
 Sound Field Parameter Descriptions
Init. Delay Initial delay
DSP Level DSP level
Room Size Room size
 SB. Init. Delay Surround back initial delay
Sur. Init. Delay Surround initial delay
Liveness Liveness
Sur. Room Size Surround room size
 Rev. Level Reverberation level
Rev. Delay Reverberation delay
Rev. Time Reverberation time
 For 2ch Stereo
Dialogue Lift Dialog lift
For 7ch Stereo
For PL x Music
 For THX Cinema
Decode Type Decoder type For Movie Theater
For Surround Standard
For Surround Enhanced
 Audio *2 Audio *3
Sound Field Program Speaker Layouts
Monaural Stereo
 6.1-channel
Channel audio
 Standard
 Audio
Channel audio 6.1-channel
 System Options
Manual Setup Manual setup menu
Stereo/Surround Stereo/Surround menu
Input Select Input select menu
 Signal Info. Signal information menu
Auto Setup Auto setup menu
System Memory System memory menu
Language GUI language menu
 Press Exit
 Select Input Select and then press h
Volume Trim Volume trimming
Input Select
 Assignment Input/output assignment
Press l / h to select OK and press Enter when complete
Rename Rename
 Audio Select Audio selection
Decoder Mode Decoder mode
Multi CH Assign Multi channel assignment
Input Channels Input channels
 LFE Level Low-frequency effect level
Manual Setup Sound
Speaker Speaker low-frequency effect level
Headphone Headphone low-frequency effect level
 Dynamic Range Dynamic range
Press h to access the settings window
Parametric EQ Parametric equalizer
Speaker Speaker dynamic range
 Audio Option Audio options
Tone Control Tone control
 Initial Volume Initial volume
Audio Delay Audio delay
Max Volume Maximum volume
PR/SB Priority Presence/surround back speaker priority
 Mode Mode
Manual Setup Video
Speaker settings
Channel Mute Channel mute
 Conversion Video conversion
Select Through not to up-scale any analog video signals
Component I/P Component interlace Progressive
Hdmi Up-Scaling Hdmi up-scaling
 Short Message Short message
Hdmi Aspect Hdmi aspect ratio
Position Position
Wall Paper Wall paper
 Use this menu to set up basic system parameters
Manual Setup Basic
Test Tone Test tone
Speaker Set Speaker set
 Center Center speaker
Front Front speakers
Surround Surround left/right speakers
Surround Back Surround back left/right speakers
 Speaker Distance Speaker distance
Swfr Phase Subwoofer Phase
Presence Presence speakers
Bass Out Bass out
 Unit Unit
Speaker Level Speaker level
Speaker distances
 THX Set THX settings
Manual Setup Option
This menu adjusts the optional system settings
SB Speaker Dist. Surround back speaker distance
 Speaker B Speaker B
Dimmer Dimmer
Multi Zone Multi zone
 Zone3 Amplifier Zone 3 amplifier
Zone2 Amplifier Zone 2 amplifier
 Zone2 OSD Zone 2 on-screen display
Zone2 Volume Zone 2 volume
Zone3 Volume Zone 3 volume
 Memory Guard Memory Guard
Sur.Initialize Surround initialize
 To save settings
Hdmi Set Hdmi settings
Press Enter to save settings
System Memory
 Press Enter to load settings
To load settings
Language
Load Enter appears in the bottom right corner of the window
 Using Advanced Setup
Advanced Setup
User preset Preset
Name of the selected parameter Current setting
 Remote control AMP ID Remote AMP
Wake on RS-232C access Wake on 232C
Remote control tuner ID Remote TUN
Fan operation mode FAN Mode
 Control area
Remote Control Features
Controlling this unit
Controlling other components
 VOL
Controlling each component
 Remote control code default settings
Setting remote control codes
Set AMP/SOURCE/TV to Source
Input area Component Code Category
 Setting remote control tuner codes
Setting remote control AMP codes
Press Learn again to exit from the setup mode
Press Enter
 100
Using Learn
Press an input selector button to select a source component
To 10 cm
 Press Learn again to exit the learning mode
Press Learn using a ballpoint pen or similar object
101
Learn appears in the display window
 102
Using RE-NAME
 103
Using Macro
Press a macro button
Macro buttons First Second Third
 Programming Macro operations
104
Macro operations
 Basic Clear operations
Using Clear
105
 106
Remote control returns to the learning mode
Clearing a learned function
Press Learn again to exit
 Remote control returns to the macro programming mode
Press Clear to exit the clearing mode
107
Clearing a macro function
 Using the external amplifiers
Connecting the Zone 2 and Zone 3 components
Zone 2/ZONE
108
 Selecting Zone 2 or Zone
Using the internal amplifiers of this unit
109
Front panel operations
 Set AMP/SOURCE/TV on the remote control to AMP
Remote control operations
Controlling Zone 2 and Zone
110
 Adjusting the volume level of Zone 2 or
Using the control mode of Zone 2 and Zone
Adjusting the tonal quality of Zone 2 or
111
 Hdmi
What is HDMI?
112
Hdmi compatibility with this unit
 113
Setting the Hdmi parameters
Basic Hdmi operations
 General
Troubleshooting
114
 115
 116
 Tuner
117
 118
Remote control
 119
Before Auto Setup
During Auto Setup
 120
After Auto Setup
 121
Glossary
Audio information
 122
 123
 124
Video information
Sound field program information
 Frequency
125
Gain
Factor
 126
Specifications
 General
127
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