Other Connections; Second Zone Speaker B Setup; Switching The Speaker System - Pioneer VSX-AX5Ai-G Operating Instructions Manual

Other connections

Chapter 10
Other connections
Caution
• Before making or changing the connections, switch off
the power and disconnect the power cord from the
power outlet. Plugging in components should be the
last connection you make with your system.
• Be careful not to allow any contact between speaker
wires from different terminals.
• You can use speakers with a nominal impedance
between 6–16Ω (please see Switching the speaker
impedance on page 68 if you plan to use speakers
with an impedance of less than 8Ω).

Second Zone speaker B setup

After selecting Second Zone in Surround back speaker
setting on page 55, you can use the speakers connected
to the (surround back) B speaker terminals on the rear
panel to listen to stereo playback in another room. See
Switching the speaker system below for the listening
options with this setup.
1 Connect a pair of speakers to the surround back
speaker terminals on the rear panel.
Connect them the same way you connected your
speakers in Connecting the speakers on page 29. Make
sure to review Placing the speakers on page 29 when
placing the speakers in another room.
2 Select 'Second Zone' from the 'SurrBack System'
menu.
See Surround back speaker setting on page 55 to do this.
Note
• You can also use the multi-room feature to listen to
stereo playback in another room. See Multi-room
listening on page 73 for more on this.

Switching the speaker system

If you selected Second Zone in Surround back speaker
setting on page 55, three speaker system settings are
possible using the SPEAKERS button. If you selected
Normal Surround, the button will simply switch your
main speaker system on or off. The options below are for
the Second Zone setting only
• Use the SPEAKERS button on the front panel to
select a speaker system setting.
As mentioned above, if you have selected Normal
Surround, the button will simply switch your main
speaker system (A) on or off.
Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system option:
• SP A – Sound is output from speaker system A and
the same signal is output from the pre-out terminals.
• SP B – Sound is output from the two speakers
connected to speaker system B. Multichannel
sources will not be heard.
• SP AB – Sound is output from speaker system A (up
to 5 channels, depending on the source), the two
speakers in speaker system B. The sound from
speaker system B will be the same as the sound from
speaker system A (multichannel sources will be
downmixed to 2 channels).
• SP (off) – No sound is output from the speakers. The
same sound is output from the pre-out terminals as
when selecting speaker system A (above).
Note
• The subwoofer output depends on the settings you
made in Normal surround setting on page 55.
However, if SP B is selected above, no sound is
heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not
downmixed).
• Depending on the settings in Normal surround
setting on page 55 and Listening with Acoustic
Calibration EQ on page 42, output from the surround
back pre-out terminals may change.
• Some sources (for example, SACD (with SACD
DIRECT switched on) and when MULTI CH IN is
selected) will not be downmixed.
• All speaker systems are switched off when
headphones are connected.
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