Connect The Surround Back Or Front Height Speakers; Switching The Speaker Terminal; Making Cable Connections; Hdmi Cables - Pioneer VSX-S300-k Operating Instrctions

Connecting your equipment
Bare wire connections
Front speaker terminals:
1
Twist exposed wire strands together.
2
Loosen terminal and insert exposed wire.
3
Tighten terminal.
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Other speaker terminals:
1
Twist exposed wire strands together.
2
Push open the tabs and insert exposed wire.
3
Release the tabs.
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CAUTION
• These speaker terminals carry HAZARDOUS LIVE
voltage. To prevent the risk of electric shock when
connecting or disconnecting the speaker cables,
disconnect the power cord before touching any
uninsulated parts.
• Make sure that all the bare speaker wire is twisted
together and inserted fully into the speaker terminal. If
any of the bare speaker wire touches the back panel it
may cause the power to cut off as a safety measure.
• Do not allow the speaker cable core to come into contact
with the receiver body.
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- If the speaker cable core comes into contact with any
metal portion of the receiver's body, it may damage the
speakers and cause smoke and fire.
Insert speaker cables securely into the terminals and
check that the cable does not come out of easily.
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Connect the surround back or front height
speakers
Connect the PRE OUT SURR BACK/FRONT HEIGHT outputs
of the unit and additional amplifier to add a surround back or
front height speaker.
• The Pre Out setting must be set if the above connections
are performed. Select Surr.Back if the surround back
speaker is connected and Height if the front height
speaker is connected (If neither the surround back
speaker nor the front height speaker is connected, either
setting will suffice) (see The Pre Out Setting on page 30).
• You can use the additional amplifier on the surround back
channel pre-outs for a single speaker as well. In this case
plug the amplifier into the left (L (Single)) terminal only.

Switching the speaker terminal

Three speaker system settings are possible.
 Use SP-AB button to select a speaker terminal setting.
Press repeatedly to choose a speaker terminal option:
• SP:A ON – Sound is output from the speakers connected
to the A-speaker terminals and PRE OUT SURR BACK/
FRONT HEIGHT (multichannel playback is possible).
• SP:B ON – Sound is output from the two speakers connected
to the B-speaker terminals (only stereo playback is possible).
• SP:A+B ON – Sound is output from the A-speaker
terminals, the two speakers in the B-speaker terminals,
and the subwoofer. Multichannel sources are downmixed
only when the STEREO or STEREO ALC mode is selected
for stereo output from A- and B-speaker terminals.
• SP: OFF – No sound is output from the speakers.
Note
• Only SP:A ON and SP: OFF are available when the
Speaker System setting is set to Normal (see Speaker
System on page 27).
• The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made
in Speaker Setting on page 28. However, if SP:B ON is
selected above, no sound is heard from the subwoofer
(the LFE channel is not downmixed).
• All speaker terminals are switched off when headphones
are connected.

Making cable connections

Make sure not to bend the cables over the top of this unit (as
shown in the illustration). If this happens, the magnetic field
produced by the transformers in this unit may cause a
humming noise from the speakers.
Important
• Before making or changing connections, switch off the
power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.
• Before unplugging the power cord, switch the power into
standby.

HDMI cables

Both video and sound signals can be transmitted
simultaneously with one cable. If connecting the player and the
TV via this receiver, for both connections, use HDMI cables.
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