RX-V2600
 Important Safety Instructions
 FCC Information for US customers
Example of Antenna Grounding
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For Canadian Customers
Pour LES Consommateurs Canadiens
Serial No
 Contents
 Features
 Supplied accessories
Getting Started
Please check that you received all of the following parts
 Installing batteries in the remote controls
Installing batteries Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control
 Handling the remote control
Opening and closing the front panel door
Approximately 6 m 20 ft
To open, press gently on the lower part of the panel
 Controls and Functions
Front panel
 PRESET/TUNING Edit
Tuning Mode AUTO/MAN’L, Display
Volume
FM/AM
 Remote control
GUI TOP, Band
Macro ON/OFF
 Power
Volume +
Macro
Standby
 Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control
Preset +
ID1/ID2 switch
Volume +
 Front panel display
 96/24 indicator
LFE indicator
Presence and surround back speaker indicators
Night indicator
 Rear panel
Wrench Holder
AC Outlets
 Before connecting speakers
Connections
 Connecting speakers
Connecting to the speaker terminals
Di-pole speaker layout
 10 mm 3/8
Speaker terminal wrench Red positive + Black negative
Red positive + Black negative
 Connecting the banana plug
Speaker layout
PRESENCE/ZONE 23 terminals
Connect presence speakers to these terminals
 Right Left Surround speakers Surround back speakers
PRE OUT
 Using bi-wire and bi-AMP connections
Bi-wire connection
Conventional connection
Bi-AMP connection
 Cable indications
Analog jacks
Digital jacks
 Audio signal flow for OUT REC
Audio jacks
Audio jacks Digital Audio Optical jacks
Digital Audio Coaxial jacks
 Video signal flow for Monitor OUT
Video jacks
Video jacks
Component Video jacks
 Connecting Hdmi components
Hdmi out DVD Player Cable TV or
Hdmi Video Monitor
 Connecting video components
Connecting a DVD player
 Connecting other video components
Satellite tuner
Video Monitor
DVD recorder Or VCR
 Connecting to the Multi CH Input jacks
Connecting to the Video AUX jacks on the front panel
 Connecting audio components
CD recorder
MD recorder or tape deck
CD player
 Connecting an external amplifier
 Connecting the antennas
Connecting the AM loop antenna
Ground GND terminal
Indoor FM antenna included
 Connecting the power cable
Connecting the AC power cable
Front panel Remote control
Turning on and off this unit
 Setting the speaker impedance
This unit will be set to the standby mode
This unit, Zone 2 and Zone 3 are turned off
SP IMP.-8ΩMIN appears in the front panel display
 Auto Setup
Optimizer microphone setup
Introduction
 Using Auto Setup
Top display appears
Subwoofer
 For Wiring, Distance, Size or Level, select
Press n to select Setup Type and then select
For Equalizing, press k / n to select
 If you set Setup Type to Auto
If you set Setup Type to Step
Confirming the results
Press n to select Start and then press
 Auto Setup
 Playback
Basic operations
Name of the currently selected input source
 Front panel Remote control Name of the sound field category
Dial Norm
Program name
 Adjusting the tonal quality
Using Silent Cinema
Press Mute on the remote control
Additional operations
 To play back Dolby Digital or DTS signals in 5.1 channels
Selecting the Multi CH Input
Enjoying multi-channel software 7.1 channel surround
Auto
 Press Select on the remote control to select a decoder
Enjoying 2-channel software in surround
Decoder types for the Surround program
 Using Pure Direct
Using the night listening modes
Choices MIN, MID, MAX
Lights up
 Using the sleep timer
Listening to unprocessed input signals
Downmixing to 2 channels
Straight
 Virtual Cinema DSP
Playing video sources Background
Selecting audio input modes
 Displaying information about the input Source
Audio Info. Audio information
Video Info. Video information
 Turn on the power of this unit and all connected components
Recording
See page 30 for details
Front panel or
 FM/AM Tuning
Automatic tuning
Press PRESET/TUNING/CH l / h once to
Begin automatic tuning
 Manual tuning
Automatic preset tuning
 Customized automatic preset tuning
 Manual preset tuning
See page 47 for tuning instructions
Memory indicator flashes for about 5 seconds
Preset station group
 Selecting preset stations
Repeat steps 1 to 5 to store other stations
 Exchanging preset stations
Press and hold PRESET/TUNING Edit for more than 3 seconds
Press PRESET/TUNING Edit again
2,4
 XM Satellite Radio Tuning
What is XM Satellite Radio?
XM Satellite Radio connections
Information from XM Satellite Radio Inc
 Front panel functions Remote control functions
XM Satellite Radio controls and functions
 Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control functions
Activating XM Satellite Radio
 Selecting the XM Satellite Radio mode
See
 All Channel Search mode
Modes
 Category Search mode
Preset Search mode
Preset Search
 Direct Number Access mode
 Setting XM Satellite Radio preset channels
When the channel number 040 is selected
Display changes as follows
 Preset group
Preset number
Group letter appears
Colon appears
 When the channel number/name is displayed
When the channel category is displayed
When the artist name/song title is displayed
Displaying the XM Satellite Radio information
 What is a sound field?
Changing parameter settings
Editing Sound Field Parameters
Elements of a sound field
 Initializing sound field programs
Following display appears
To initialize all sound field programs
Use the Sur.Initialize parameter in the Option menu see
 Sound Field Program Descriptions
For movie/video sources
Sources Control
Program
 THX
 For music sources
7ch Stereo
 Init. Delay Initial delay
Sound Field Parameter Descriptions
DSP Level DSP level
Room Size Room size
 Sur. Init. Delay Surround initial delay
SB. Init. Delay Surround back initial delay
Liveness Liveness
Sur. Room Size Surround room size
 Rev. Delay Reverberation delay
Rev. Time Reverberation time
Rev. Level Reverberation level
 Dialogue Lift Dialog lift
For 2ch Stereo
For 7ch Stereo
For PL x Music
 Decode Type Decoder type For Movie Theater
For THX Cinema
For Surround Standard
For Surround Enhanced
 Sound Field Program Speaker Layouts
Channel audio 6.1-channel
Stereo
Audio
 Monaural Stereo
Audio *2 Audio *3
 Standard
 Straight
 Manual Setup Manual setup menu
System Options
Stereo/Surround Stereo/Surround menu
Input Select Input select menu
 Auto Setup Auto setup menu
Signal Info. Signal information menu
System Memory System memory menu
Language GUI language menu
 Press Exit
 Input Select
Antenna Level Antenna level
Select Input Select and then press h
 Volume Trim Volume trimming
Press l / h to select OK and press Enter when complete
Rename Rename
Assignment Input/output assignment
 Decoder Mode Decoder mode
Audio Select Audio selection
Multi CH Assign Multi channel assignment
Input Channels Input channels
 Manual Setup Sound
LFE Level Low-frequency effect level
Speaker Speaker low-frequency effect level
Headphone Headphone low-frequency effect level
 Press h to access the settings window
Dynamic Range Dynamic range
Parametric EQ Parametric equalizer
Speaker Speaker dynamic range
 Tone Control Tone control
Audio Option Audio options
 Audio Delay Audio delay
Initial Volume Initial volume
Max Volume Maximum volume
PR/SB Priority Presence/surround back speaker priority
 Manual Setup Video
Mode Mode
Speaker settings
Channel Mute Channel mute
 Conversion Video conversion
Component I/P Component interlace Progressive
Hdmi Up-Scaling Hdmi up-scaling
 Hdmi Aspect Hdmi aspect ratio
Short Message Short message
Position Position
Wall Paper Wall paper
 Manual Setup Basic
Use this menu to set up basic system parameters
Test Tone Test tone
Speaker Set Speaker set
 Front Front speakers
Center Center speaker
Surround Surround left/right speakers
Surround Back Surround back left/right speakers
 Swfr Phase Subwoofer Phase
Speaker Distance Speaker distance
Presence Presence speakers
Bass Out Bass out
 Speaker Level Speaker level
Speaker distances
Unit Unit
 Manual Setup Option
THX Set THX settings
This menu adjusts the optional system settings
SB Speaker Dist. Surround back speaker distance
 Dimmer Dimmer
Multi Zone Multi zone
Speaker B Speaker B
 Zone2 Amplifier Zone 2 amplifier
Zone3 Amplifier Zone 3 amplifier
 Zone2 Volume Zone 2 volume
Zone3 Volume Zone 3 volume
Zone2 OSD Zone 2 on-screen display
 Sur.Initialize Surround initialize
Memory Guard Memory Guard
 Hdmi Set Hdmi settings
To save settings
Press Enter to save settings
System Memory
 To load settings
Press Enter to load settings
Language
100
 Advanced Setup
Using Advanced Setup
User preset Preset
101
 102
 Remote Control Features
Control area
103
 Controlling each component
104
 Setting remote control codes
Remote control code default settings
105
Set AMP/SOURCE/TV to Source
 106
 Using Learn
Press Learn again to exit from the setup mode
107
Buttons can be programmed independently for each component
 Press Learn using a ballpoint pen or similar object
Press Learn again to exit the learning mode
108
Learn appears in the display window
 Using RE-NAME
109
 Using Macro
110
Press a macro button
Macro buttons First Second Third
 111
Macro operations
Programming Macro operations
 Using Clear
112
Basic Clear operations
 Remote control returns to the learning mode
113
Clearing a learned function
Press Learn again to exit
 Press Clear to exit the clearing mode
Remote control returns to the macro programming mode
114
Clearing a macro function
 Connecting the Zone 2 and Zone 3 components
Using the external amplifiers
Zone 2/ZONE
115
 Using the internal amplifiers of this unit
Selecting Zone 2 or Zone
116
Front panel operations
 Remote control operations
Set AMP/SOURCE/TV on the remote control to AMP
Controlling Zone 2 and Zone
117
 Using the control mode of Zone 2 and Zone
Adjusting the volume level of Zone 2 or
Adjusting the tonal quality of Zone 2 or
118
 What is HDMI?
Hdmi
119
Hdmi compatibility with this unit
 Setting the Hdmi parameters
Basic Hdmi operations
120
 Troubleshooting
121
General
 122
 123
 124
Tuner
XM Satellite Radio
 Remote control
125
 Before Auto Setup
During Auto Setup
126
 After Auto Setup
127
 Glossary
Audio information
128
 129
 130
 Video information
Sound field program information
131
 132
Frequency
Gain
Factor
 Specifications
133
 134
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