Playing Other Sources; Choosing The Input Signal; Selecting The Multichannel Analog Inputs - Pioneer VSX-916-K Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to your system

Playing other sources

1 Turn on the power of the playback
component.
2 Turn on the power of the receiver.
3 Select the source you want to playback.
Use the input select buttons.
4 Start playback of the component you
selected in step 1.

Choosing the input signal

• Default setting: AUTO
You need to hook up a component to both
analog and digital inputs on the rear of the
receiver to select between input signals.
• Press SIGNAL SEL (SIGNAL SELECT ) to
select the input signal corresponding to the
source component.
Each press cycles through the options as
follows:
• AUTO – This is the default setting. The
receiver selects the first available signal in
the following order: DIGITAL; ANALOG.
• ANALOG – Selects an analog signal.
• DIGITAL – Selects an optical or coaxial
digital signal.
When set to DIGITAL or AUTO, 2 DIGITAL
lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and
DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.
Note
1 If your source is the TV's built-in tuner, switch to the channel you want to watch, otherwise make sure that the TV's video input
is set to this receiver (For example, if you connected this receiver to the VIDEO jacks on your TV, make sure that the VIDEO input
is selected). Turn down the volume of your TV so that all the sound is coming from the speakers connected to this receiver.
2 • This receiver can only play back Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other
digital signal formats, set to ANALOG.
• You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make
the proper digital connections (Connecting other audio components on page 15) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.
• Some DVD players don't output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.
3 • During playback from the multichannel inputs, you can't use any of the sound features/modes and only the volume and
channel levels can be set.
• You can't listen to your speaker B (Second Zone) system during playback from the multichannel inputs.
Selecting the multichannel
analog inputs
If you have connected a decoder or a DVD
player with multichannel analog outputs to this
receiver (page 14), you must select the analog
multichannel inputs for surround sound.
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1
source to the proper output setting.
For example, you might need to set your DVD
player to output multichannel analog audio.
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3
select the multichannel analog inputs.
DVD 5.1ch shows in the display and the
ANALOG indicator lights.
2
Make sure you have set the playback
Press DVD .
Press SIGNAL SEL (SIGNAL SELECT ) to
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