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