Speaker System B Setup; Stereo Playback In Another Room; Bi-Amping The Front Speakers; Bi-Wiring Your Speakers - Pioneer Elite VSX-49TXi Operating Instructions Manual

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Speaker System B Setup

Stereo playback in another room

Connect a pair of speakers to the B speaker terminals to listen to stereo playback in another room (kitchen,
bedroom, etc.). Select NORMAL SURROUND and choose the speaker system setup that you want.
See the next page for more details on these speaker system settings.
Please use speakers with a nominal impedance rated 6 -16 .

Bi-amping the front speakers

For bi-amp playback you can connect both the A and B speaker terminals to your front speakers. To do this
your speakers must be bi-wireable (that is they must have separate terminals for the high and low
frequencies).
Bi-amping delivers more power to the front speakers, but disables the surround back speakers, so you will
be limited to 5.1 channel playback.
Caution!
Do not allow any speaker wire from any
terminal to touch a wire from a different
terminal.
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L
FRONT
R
CENTER
L
SUR-
ROUND
R
(Single)
L
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
R

Bi-wiring your speakers

To bi-wire a speaker, connect two speaker cords to each speaker terminal on
the receiver. To do this your speakers must be bi-wireable (that is they must
have separate terminals for the high and low frequencies). The easiest way to
do this is to connect one wire in the normal way, and use a banana plug for the
other one. Make sure you use a parallel (not series) connection when doing so.
Don't connect different speakers from the same terminal in this way. For this
type of connection select NORMAL SURROUND when setting up.
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Watch that +/- connections
are properly inserted (they
are in opposite positions for
A and B speaker terminals).
FRONT Speaker
rear side
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L
R
1 Connect your speakers as
shown.
Since both Front A and B speaker terminals
output the same audio, it doesn't matter which
set (A or B) is powering which part (HI or LOW)
of the speaker.
2 Select BI-AMP(5.1). If you need
more information on how to do
this see page 42, step 3.
The surround back channel amplifier is now
used to power the B set of speaker terminals
and the A+B (SP3AB) speaker setting is
automatically selected. The speaker setting in
this case can only be A+B or OFF.
Caution!
Most speakers with both Hi and Low
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terminals have two metal plates that
Hi
connect the Hi to the Low terminals.
These must be removed when you are
bi-amping the speakers or you could
severely damage the amplifier. See your
speaker manual for more information.
Lo