Table Of Contents - Pioneer sc-9540 Operating Instructions Manual

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate
your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.
Contents
Flow of settings on the receiver 8
01 Before you start
Our philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Controls and displays
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
03 Connecting your equipment
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Determining the speakers' application . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Other speaker connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing your speaker system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Standard 5.1/6.1/7.1-channel surround
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Bi-amping your speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Bi-wiring your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Selecting the Surr Back system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ZONE 2 setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Bi-Amping setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
About the audio connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting your TV and playback components . . . . . 26
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Connecting your DVD player with no HDMI
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . 28
Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR and
other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other
set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . 31
Connecting other audio components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
About the WMA9 Pro decoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting AM/FM antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Connecting an XM Radio tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Connecting a SiriusConnect™ tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
MULTI-ZONE setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Making MULTI-ZONE connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Operating other Pioneer components with this unit's
sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Switching components on and off using the 12 volt
trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output . . . . . 38
Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to
the front panel input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Plugging in the receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
04 Basic Setup
Changing the OSD display language
(OSD Language) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Automatically setting up for surround sound
(Auto MCACC & Full Band Phase Control). . . . . . . . . 42
Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 44
The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Input function default and possible settings . . . . . . 45
05 Basic playback
Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Playing a source with HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . 47
Playing an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . 47
Playing a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Playing back photo files stored on a USB memory
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the noise cut mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using Neural THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Listening to Satellite Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Listening to XM Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using XM HD Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Saving channel presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using the XM Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Listening to SIRIUS Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Saving channel presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the SIRIUS Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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