02 5 Minute Guide; Introduction To Home Theater; Listening To Surround Sound - Pioneer VSX-519V Operating Instructions Manual

02 5 minute guide
Chapter 2:
5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater

Home theater refers to the use of multiple
audio tracks to create a surround sound effect,
making you feel like you're in the middle of the
action or concert. The surround sound you get
from a home theater system depends not only
on your speaker setup, but also on the source
and the sound settings of the receiver.
This receiver will automatically decode
multichannel Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby
Surround sources according to your speaker
setup. In most cases, you won't have to make
changes for realistic surround sound, but
other possibilities (like listening to a CD with
multichannel surround sound) are explained in
Listening to your system on page 28.

Listening to Surround Sound

With the following quick setup guide, you should
have your system hooked up for surround sound
in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply
leave the receiver in the default settings.
• Be sure to complete all connections before
connecting to an AC power source.
1 Connect your TV and Blu-ray Disc player
or DVD player.
See Connecting a TV and Blu-ray Disc player or
DVD player on page 11 to do this. For surround
sound, you'll want to hook up using a digital
connection from the BD/DVD player to the receiver.
2 Connect your speakers and place them for
optimal surround sound.
See Connecting the speakers on page 18.
Note
1 Depending on your BD/DVD player or source discs, you may only get digital 2 channel stereo and analog sound. In this case,
the listening mode must be set to STANDARD (it should already be set—see Listening in surround sound on page 28 if you
need to do this) if you want multichannel surround sound.
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Where you place the speakers will have a big
effect on the sound. Place your speakers as
shown below for the best surround sound
effect. Also see Hints on speaker placement on
page 19 for more on this.
Subwoofer (SW)
Front
Left (L)
Center (C)
Surround
Left (SL)
3 Plug in and switch on the receiver,
followed by your BD/DVD player,
subwoofer and TV.
Make sure you've set the video input on your TV
to this receiver. Check the manual that came
with the TV if you don't know how to do this.
4 Set the connection of the speaker and the
subwoofer.
Perform Speaker setting of Manual speaker
setup in Using the System Setup menu on
page 35.
5 Play a BD/DVD, and adjust the volume.
Make sure that BD/DVD is showing in the
receiver's display, indicating that the BD/DVD
input is selected. If it isn't, press BD on the
remote to set the receiver to the BD/DVD input.
There are several other sound options you can
select. See Listening to your system on page 28
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for more on this. See also The System Setup
menu on page 35 for more setup options.
Front
Right (R)
Surround
Right (SR)
Listening
position