Playing Other Sources; Choosing The Input Signal; Selecting The Multichannel Analog Inputs; Selecting The Front Audio Inputs - Pioneer VSX-818V-K Operating Instructions Manual

05 Listening to your system

Playing other sources

1 Turn on the power of the playback
component.
2 Turn on the power of the receiver.
3 Select the source you want to playback.
Use the MULTI CONTROL buttons (INPUT
SELECTOR).
4 Start playback of the component you
selected in step 1.

Choosing the input signal

• Default setting: AUTO
You need to hook up a component to both
analog and digital inputs on the rear of the
receiver to select between input signals.
1 Press RECEIVER on the remote control.
2 Press SIGNAL SEL ( SIGNAL SELECT) to
select the input signal corresponding to the
source component.
Each press cycles through the following:
• AUTO – The input signal is automatically
selected from the HDMI (VSX-918V model
only), DIGITAL and ANALOG in this order.
• HDMI (VSX-918V model only) – Selects an
HDMI signal.
• DVD 5.1ch – See Selecting the
multichannel analog inputs below.
• ANALOG – Selects the analog inputs.
• DIGITAL – Selects the digital input.
Note
1 • This receiver can only playback Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other
digital signal formats, set to ANALOG.
• You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make
the proper digital connections (page 12) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.
• Some DVD players don't output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.
2 When the HDMI option in Setting the AV options on page 34 is set to THRU (THROUGH), the sound will be heard through your
TV, not from this receiver.
3 During playback from the multichannel inputs, you can't use any of the sound features/modes and only the volume and
channel levels can be set.
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When set to DIGITAL or AUTO, 2 DIGITAL
lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and
DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.
VSX-918V model only: When the HDMI is
selected, the ANALOG and DIGITAL
indicators are off (see page 24).
Selecting the multichannel
analog inputs
If you have connected a decoder or a DVD
player with multichannel analog outputs to this
receiver (page 13), you must select the analog
multichannel inputs for surround sound.
1 Make sure you have set the playback
source to the proper output setting.
For example, you might need to set your DVD
player to output multichannel analog audio.
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2 Press DVD .
3 Press RECEIVER on the remote control,
then press SIGNAL SEL to select the
multichannel analog inputs.
DVD 5.1ch shows in the display and the
ANALOG indicator lights.

Selecting the front audio inputs

When playing back a component connected to
the MCACC PORTABLE jack on the front panel,
set the source to PORTABLE on the receiver.
1 Press PORTABLE ( SHIFT + iPod USB ) on
the remote control.
You can also select the source by pressing
VIDEO/PORTABLE on the front panel.
2 Playback the connected component.
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