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
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
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
Macro ON/OFF
Remote control
GUI TOP, Band
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
AC Outlets
Rear panel
Wrench Holder
Before connecting speakers
Connections
Di-pole speaker layout
Connecting speakers
Connecting to the speaker terminals
Red positive + Black negative
10 mm 3/8
Speaker terminal wrench 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
Digital jacks
Cable indications
Analog 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
Hdmi Video Monitor
Connecting Hdmi components
Hdmi out DVD Player Cable TV or
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
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 Auto
If you set Setup Type to Step
Confirming the results
Press n to select Start and then press
Auto Setup
Name of the currently selected input source
Playback
Basic operations
Program name
Front panel Remote control Name of the sound field category
Dial Norm
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
Decoder types for the Surround program
Press Select on the remote control to select a decoder
Enjoying 2-channel software in surround
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
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
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
Preset Search
Category Search mode
Preset Search mode
Direct Number Access mode
Display changes as follows
Setting XM Satellite Radio preset channels
When the channel number 040 is selected
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. Level Reverberation level
Rev. Delay Reverberation delay
Rev. Time Reverberation time
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
Select Input Select and then press h
Input Select
Antenna Level Antenna level
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
Hdmi Up-Scaling Hdmi up-scaling
Conversion Video conversion
Component I/P Component interlace Progressive
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
Unit Unit
Speaker Level Speaker level
Speaker distances
Manual Setup Option
THX Set THX settings
This menu adjusts the optional system 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
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
103
Remote Control Features
Control area
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
Programming Macro operations
111
Macro operations
Basic Clear operations
Using Clear
112
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
120
Setting the Hdmi parameters
Basic Hdmi operations
General
Troubleshooting
121
122
123
XM Satellite Radio
124
Tuner
Remote control
125
126
Before Auto Setup
During Auto Setup
After Auto Setup
127
128
Glossary
Audio information
129
130
131
Video information
Sound field program information
132
Frequency
Gain
Factor
Specifications
133
134
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