Connecting Digital Audio Components - Pioneer VSX-45TX Elite Operating Instructions Manual

Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Digital Audio Components

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from
the AC outlet.
Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSX-45TX has two coaxial and two optical inputs
for a total of four digital inputs on the rear panel plus one digital input on the front panel. In order to use
digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS (among others) you need to make digital audio connections.
You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection (you don't need to do both). The quality of
these two types of connections is the same but since some digital components only have one type of
digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example, the coaxial out from the component
to coaxial in on the receiver).
Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings (see next page) unless
you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on page 91.
There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you
connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can
make direct digital recordings with this unit.
We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see page 20) in order to
make recordings (some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies).
*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.
ASSIGNABLE
PCM/
2DIGITAL /
DTS/MPEG
OUT1
OUT2
1
IN
(TV/
SAT)
2
IN
(CD-R/
TAPE1)
3
IN
(DVD/
LD)
4
IN
(CD)
B type
USB
AUDIO
DIGITAL
22
MULTI-ROOM
AM LOOP
FM UNBAL 75 & SOURCE
ANTENNA
MONITOR OUT
MULTI-ROOM
IN
& SOURCE
CONTROL
MONITOR
R L
OUT OUT OUT
R L
PLAY
IN
IN
CD-R/
VCR1/
TAPE1
DVR
OUT
OUT
REC
PLAY
IN IN
MD/
VCR2
TAPE2
OUT OUT
REC
CD
TV/
SAT
IN
IN
PHONO/
DVD/
LINE
LD
IN
IN
R R
L L
VIDEO
AUDIO AUDIO VIDEO
USB cable
PRE OUT
SUB
WOOFER
CENTER
FRONT
R L
SUR-
ROUND
R L
(Single)
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
R L
FRONT
L
R
SUR-
ROUND
L
R
SUB CEN-
WOOF- TER
ER
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
R L
S VIDEO
(not a PCM-only output)
MULTI CH IN
DIGITAL
OUTPUT
Satellite tuner
DIGITAL DIGITAL
OUTPUT INPUT
(PLAY) (REC)
CD recorder
DIGITAL
OUTPUT
DIGITAL
OUTPUT
A type
DVD player
CD player
PC