Table Of Contents - Pioneer VSX-415-S/-K Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . 6
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
02 5 minute guide
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
03 Quick surround sound setup
Automatically setting up for surround
sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Other problems during Auto MCACC . . . . . 14
04 Connecting up
Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting a DVD player and TV . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting the multichannel analog
outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting a satellite receiver or other
digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 18
About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting other video components . . . . . . 19
Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
FM wire antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting the speakers (VSX-415) . . . . . . . 21
Connecting the speakers (VSX-515) . . . . . . . 22
Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Speaker placement diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 23
05 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
VSX-515 model: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
VSX-415 model: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
06 Listening to your system
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . 32
Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 34
Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the surround back channel
(Extended mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the Virtual Surround Back
mode (VSB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . 38
Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 39
Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
07 Setting up the receiver
Choosing your receiver setup . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Surround and sound setup options . . . . . . . . 41
Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Subwoofer setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Crossover frequency setting . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
LFE attenuator setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Front speaker distance setting . . . . . . . . . . 42
Center speaker distance setting . . . . . . . . . 42
Surround speaker distance setting . . . . . . . 42
Subwoofer distance setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Dynamic range control setting . . . . . . . . . . 42
Dual mono setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Digital input settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Setting separate channel levels for
listening modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
08 The System Setup menu
Making receiver settings from the System
Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Fine Channel Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Other setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . . 51
Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
09 Using the tuner
Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Clearing all stations from the RDS and
EON searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56