01 Before you start Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Checking the supplied accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installing the Receiver 7 Opening the front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Operating range of the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . 8 02 5 minute guide Introduction to Home theater 9 Setting up for Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Automatically setting up for surround sound . . . . . . 12 Other problems when using the Auto Surround Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Checking the settings on your DVD (or other) player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 03 Connecting your equipment Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 About the video Converter 16 About cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting your TV 18 Connecting a DVD player 19 Connecting the multichannel analog outputs . . . . 20 Connecting a satellite/cable Receiver or other set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder 22 Connecting other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Connecting a component to the front panel inputs . . 27 Installing your Speaker ystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Connecting the Speaker 29 Placing the Speaker 29 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Plugging in the Receiver 31 About the AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 04 Controls and displays Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 05 Listening to your system Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The MOVIE listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 The MUSIC listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Adjusting the advanced effect level . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Listening with Headphone 40 Using the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Selecting the input signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the surround back channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Listening with virtual surround back Speaker 44 Using the audio scaler for Hi-bit and Hi-sampling . . 44 Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the tone control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Switching the tone control on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Reducing noise during playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Listening to dual mono soundtracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 06 Using the Tuner Finding a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 MPX mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Memorizing station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Listening to memorized station presets . . . . . . . . . 49 Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 07 The Surround Setup menu Making Receiver ettings from the Surround Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Surround back Speaker etting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Normal surround setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Speaker etting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Channel Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 08 Controlling other equipment Using the remote control with other Components 54 Recalling preset codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Programming signals from other remote controls . . 55 Controls for TV 56 Controls for other Components 57 Direct function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Multi Operation and System Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Programming a multi-operation or a shutdown sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using multi operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Using System off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Switching Components on and off using the 12 volt trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Operating other Pioneer Components with this unit’s sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 09 Using other functions Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Adjusting the delay of a soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Watching video and audio sources independently . . 63 Dimming the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Switching the Speaker impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Advanced remote control features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Editing remote control display names . . . . . . . . . . 64 Adjusting the remote control backlight . . . . . . . . . 65 Clearing remote control settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Resetting the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 10 Other connections Second Zone Speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Switching the Speaker ystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Bi-amping your front Speaker 68 Bi-wiring your Speaker 68 Multi-room listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Making multi-room connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Using the multi-room controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Connecting an IR Receiver 71 Connecting additional Amplifier 71 Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output . . . . 73 Advanced MCACC output using your PC . . . . . . . . 73 11 Advanced setup The System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 THX CINEMA Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Function Rename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 PHONO/LINE Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Multi-Room and IR Receiver etup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 12 Volt Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The Expert setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Fine Channel Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Professional Acoustic Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Using Professional Acoustic Calibration . . . . . . . . 85 Bass Peak Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Dynamic Range Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 12 Additional information Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 No sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Other audio problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Surround sound formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Dolby 96 DTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 About THX® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Preset code brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Maintenance of external surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99