RX-V2600
Important Safety Instructions
FCC Information for US customers
Example of Antenna Grounding
Pour LES Consommateurs Canadiens
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For Canadian Customers
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
Approximately 6 m 20 ft
Handling the remote control
Opening and closing the front panel door
To open, press gently on the lower part of the panel
Controls and Functions
Front panel
Volume
PRESET/TUNING Edit
Tuning Mode AUTO/MAN’L, Display
FM/AM
Remote control
GUI TOP, Band
Macro ON/OFF
Macro
Power
Volume +
Standby
ID1/ID2 switch
Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control
Preset +
Volume +
Front panel display
Presence and surround back speaker indicators
96/24 indicator
LFE indicator
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
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
Cable indications
Analog jacks
Digital 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
Connecting Hdmi components
Hdmi out DVD Player Cable TV or
Hdmi Video Monitor
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
Ground GND terminal
Connecting the antennas
Connecting the AM loop antenna
Indoor FM antenna included
Front panel Remote control
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
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
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
Playback
Basic operations
Name of the currently selected input source
Front panel Remote control Name of the sound field category
Dial Norm
Program name
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
Press Select on the remote control to select a decoder
Enjoying 2-channel software in surround
Decoder types for the Surround program
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
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
See page 30 for details
Turn on the power of this unit and all connected components
Recording
Front panel or
Press PRESET/TUNING/CH l / h once to
FM/AM Tuning
Automatic tuning
Begin 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
XM Satellite Radio connections
XM Satellite Radio Tuning
What is XM Satellite Radio?
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
Group letter appears
Preset group
Preset number
Colon appears
When the artist name/song title is displayed
When the channel number/name is displayed
When the channel category is displayed
Displaying the XM Satellite Radio information
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
THX
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. Delay Reverberation delay
Rev. Time Reverberation time
Rev. Level Reverberation level
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
Stereo
Sound Field Program Speaker Layouts
Channel audio 6.1-channel
Audio
Monaural Stereo
Audio *2 Audio *3
Standard
Straight
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
Input Select
Antenna Level Antenna level
Select Input Select and then press h
Rename Rename
Volume Trim Volume trimming
Press l / h to select OK and press Enter when complete
Assignment Input/output assignment
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
Conversion Video conversion
Component I/P Component interlace Progressive
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
Speaker Level Speaker level
Speaker distances
Unit Unit
This menu adjusts the optional system settings
Manual Setup Option
THX Set THX 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
Press Enter to save settings
Hdmi Set Hdmi settings
To save settings
System Memory
Language
To load settings
Press Enter to load settings
100
User preset Preset
Advanced Setup
Using Advanced Setup
101
102
Remote Control Features
Control area
103
Controlling each component
104
105
Setting remote control codes
Remote control code default settings
Set AMP/SOURCE/TV to Source
106
107
Using Learn
Press Learn again to exit from the setup mode
Buttons can be programmed independently for each component
108
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
109
Press a macro button
Using Macro
110
Macro buttons First Second Third
111
Macro operations
Programming Macro operations
Using Clear
112
Basic Clear operations
Clearing a learned function
Remote control returns to the learning mode
113
Press Learn again to exit
114
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
115
116
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
117
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
118
119
What is HDMI?
Hdmi
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
Gain
132
Frequency
Factor
Specifications
133
134
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