Table Of Contents - Pioneer 915 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Ventilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
02 5 minute guide
Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
03 Quick surround sound setup
Automatically setting up for surround sound
(MCACC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Other problems when using the Auto
MCACC Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
04 Connecting up
Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting a DVD player and TV . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting the multichannel analog
outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting a satellite receiver or other
digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 19
About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting other video components . . . . . . 20
Using the component video jacks. . . . . . . . 21
Connecting to the front panel video
terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
FM wire antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 24
AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Operating other Pioneer components . . . . . . 26
05 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operating range of remote control unit . . . 33
06 Listening to your system
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . 35
Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music settings . . . . . . . 36
Neo:6 Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 37
Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the surround back channel
(Extended mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode
(VirtualSB). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using Loudness and Midnight listening . . . . 41
Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 42
Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
07 The System Setup menu
Making receiver settings from the System
Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fine Channel Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
08 Using the tuner
Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
09 Making recordings
Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 54