RX-V2600
Important Safety Instructions
Example of Antenna Grounding
FCC Information for US customers
For Canadian Customers
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Contents
Features
Supplied accessories
Getting Started
Please check that you received all of the following parts
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 20 ft
To open, press gently on the lower part of the panel
Front panel
Controls and Functions
Tuning Mode AUTO/MAN’L, Display
PRESET/TUNING Edit
Volume
FM/AM
Remote control
GUI TOP, Band
Macro ON/OFF
Volume +
Power
Macro
Standby
Preset +
Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control
ID1/ID2 switch
Volume +
Front panel display
LFE indicator
96/24 indicator
Presence and surround back speaker indicators
Night indicator
Rear panel
Wrench Holder
AC Outlets
Connections
Before connecting speakers
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
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
Cable indications
Analog jacks
Digital 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
Connecting Hdmi components
Hdmi out DVD Player Cable TV or
Hdmi Video Monitor
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
Ground GND terminal
Indoor FM antenna included
Connecting the AC power cable
Connecting the power cable
Front panel Remote control
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
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 Step
If you set Setup Type to Auto
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
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
Press Select on the remote control to select a decoder
Enjoying 2-channel software in surround
Decoder types for the Surround program
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
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
Recording
Turn on the power of this unit and all connected components
See page 30 for details
Front panel or
Automatic tuning
FM/AM Tuning
Press PRESET/TUNING/CH 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
What is XM Satellite Radio?
XM Satellite Radio Tuning
XM Satellite Radio connections
Information from XM Satellite Radio Inc
XM Satellite Radio controls and functions
Front panel functions Remote control functions
Activating XM Satellite Radio
Zone 2/Zone 3 remote control functions
See
Selecting the XM Satellite Radio mode
Modes
All Channel Search mode
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 number
Preset group
Group letter appears
Colon appears
When the channel category is displayed
When the channel number/name is displayed
When the artist name/song title is displayed
Displaying the XM Satellite Radio information
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
THX
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. Delay Reverberation delay
Rev. Time Reverberation time
Rev. Level Reverberation level
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
Channel audio 6.1-channel
Sound Field Program Speaker Layouts
Stereo
Audio
Audio *2 Audio *3
Monaural Stereo
Standard
Straight
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
Input Select
Antenna Level Antenna level
Select Input Select and then press h
Press l / h to select OK and press Enter when complete
Volume Trim Volume trimming
Rename Rename
Assignment Input/output assignment
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
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
Speaker Level Speaker level
Speaker distances
Unit Unit
THX Set THX settings
Manual Setup Option
This menu adjusts the optional system settings
SB Speaker Dist. Surround back speaker distance
Dimmer Dimmer
Multi Zone Multi zone
Speaker B Speaker B
Zone3 Amplifier Zone 3 amplifier
Zone2 Amplifier Zone 2 amplifier
Zone2 Volume Zone 2 volume
Zone3 Volume Zone 3 volume
Zone2 OSD Zone 2 on-screen display
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
100
Using Advanced Setup
Advanced Setup
User preset Preset
101
102
Remote Control Features
Control area
103
104
Controlling each component
Remote control code default settings
Setting remote control codes
105
Set AMP/SOURCE/TV to Source
106
Press Learn again to exit from the setup mode
Using Learn
107
Buttons can be programmed independently for each component
Press Learn again to exit the learning mode
Press Learn using a ballpoint pen or similar object
108
Learn appears in the display window
109
Using RE-NAME
110
Using Macro
Press a macro button
Macro buttons First Second Third
111
Macro operations
Programming Macro operations
Using Clear
112
Basic Clear operations
113
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
114
Clearing a macro function
Using the external amplifiers
Connecting the Zone 2 and Zone 3 components
Zone 2/ZONE
115
Selecting Zone 2 or Zone
Using the internal amplifiers of this unit
116
Front panel operations
Set AMP/SOURCE/TV on the remote control to AMP
Remote control operations
Controlling Zone 2 and Zone
117
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
118
Hdmi
What is 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
125
Remote control
Before Auto Setup
During Auto Setup
126
127
After Auto Setup
Glossary
Audio information
128
129
130
Video information
Sound field program information
131
Frequency
132
Gain
Factor
133
Specifications
General
134
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