Table Of Contents - Pioneer AS-LX70 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
Contents
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
01 Speaker Setup Guide
Safety precautions when setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Home theater sound setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Standard surround setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Front surround setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Preparing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Using the supplied speaker bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
When not using the supplied speaker bases . . . . . . 7
Connect the speaker system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Additional notes on speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . 7
02 Connecting up
Receiver subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Side panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Back of display unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Basic connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
03 Controls and displays
Display unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Operating the receiver subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Operating the built-in FM/AM tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Operating Pioneer plasma televisions and TVs . . . . 17
Operating a Pioneer Blu-ray Disc player . . . . . . . . . 18
Operating a Pioneer DVD player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Operating a Pioneer HDD/DVD Recorder . . . . . . . . 20
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . 21
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Operating the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using the LCD touch screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
04 Getting started
Using the Auto MCACC setup
for optimal surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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05 Listening to your system
Effective Sound (for optimum sound) . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Listening in surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Center image setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Advanced Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Genre Sync Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Listening with MCACC Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using Midnight, Loudness and
Quiet listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Adjusting sound delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
06 Listening to the radio
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Improving poor FM reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Improving poor AM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Changing the noise cut mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Memorizing stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Changing the frequency step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
07 Surround sound settings
Using the Sound Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Channel level setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Speaker distance setting1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Dynamic Range Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dual mono setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . 32
LFE Attenuate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Adjusting the channel levels using the test tone. . . . 32
08 Other connections
Connecting auxiliary components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting for digital audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting an analog audio component . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Listening to an external audio source . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
About control out connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
HDMI mode setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
About HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36