Table Of Contents - Pioneer HTS-LX70 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
Thank you for buying this Pioneer product.
Please read through these operating instructions so that you will know how to operate your model properly. After you
have finished reading the instructions, put them in a safe place for future reference.
Contents
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
01 Speaker Setup Guide
Safety precautions when setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Home theater sound setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Standard surround setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Front surround setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Preparing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the supplied speaker bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
When not using the supplied speaker bases . . . . . . 9
Connect the speaker system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Additional notes on speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . 9
02 Connecting up
Receiver subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Side panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Back of display unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Basic connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
03 Controls and displays
Display unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Operating the receiver subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Operating the built-in FM/AM tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Operating XM Radio or SIRIUS Radio. . . . . . . . . . . 20
Operating Pioneer plasma displays and TVs. . . . . . 21
Operating a Pioneer Blu-ray Disc player. . . . . . . . . 22
Operating a Pioneer DVD player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Operating a Pioneer HDD/DVD Recorder. . . . . . . . 24
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . 25
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Operating the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the LCD touch screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
04 Getting started
Using the Auto MCACC setup for optimal surround
sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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05 Listening to your system
Effective Sound (for optimum sound) . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Listening in surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Center image setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using Advanced Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Genre Sync Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Listening with MCACC Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using Midnight, Loudness and Quiet listening
modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Adjusting the bass and treble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Adjusting sound delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
06 Listening to the radio
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Improving poor FM reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Improving poor AM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Changing the noise cut mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Memorizing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Changing the frequency step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
07 Surround sound settings
Using the Sound Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Channel level setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Speaker distance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Dynamic Range Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Dual mono setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . 37
LFE Attenuate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Adjusting the channel levels using the test tone . . . 37