Table Of Contents - Pioneer VSX-919AH-S 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
01 Before you start
Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
02 Controls and displays
Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating range of remote control unit. . . . . 13
03 Connecting your equipment
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Determining the speakers' application . . . . . . 15
Other speaker connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . 17
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Standard 5.1/6.1/7.1-channel surround
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Bi-amping your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Bi-wiring your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Selecting the Surr Back system . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ZONE 2 setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Bi-Amping setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About the audio connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting your TV and playback
components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting your DVD player with
no HDMI output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . 26
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or
other set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR and
other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Connecting the multichannel analog inputs . . 28
Connecting other audio components . . . . . . . 29
About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Connecting AM/FM antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . 30
MULTI-ZONE setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Making MULTI-ZONE connections . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operating other Pioneer components with
this unit's sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Connecting a component to
the front panel inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
04 Basic Setup
Switching the speaker impedance. . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the TV format setting. . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the frequency step . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the OSD display language
(OSD Language) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Automatically setting up for surround sound
(Auto MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Problems when using the Auto MCACC
Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Input function default and possible settings . . . 41
05 Basic playback
Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Playing a source with HDMI connection . . . . 43
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 43
Playing an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod . . 44
Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Playing back audio files stored
on a USB memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Playing back photo files stored
on a USB memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using Neural THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Listening to station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
06 Listening to your system
Auto playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . 53
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . . 54
Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using surround back channel processing . . . . 55
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode. . . . . 56
Setting the Up Mix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Selecting MCACC presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Better sound using Phase Control. . . . . . . . . . 58