Table Of Contents - Pioneer Elite SC-37 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
Our philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Flow for operating the receiver with RF two-way
communications (SC-37 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Controls and displays
Remote control (In case of SC-37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Remote control display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
RF adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Remote control (In case of SC-35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
03 Connecting your equipment
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting the RF adapter (SC-37 only). . . . . . . . . . . 21
Determining the speakers' application . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Other speaker connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing your speaker system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Standard surround connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Bi-amping your speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Bi-wiring your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Selecting the Speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Front height setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Front wide setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Bi-Amping setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ZONE 2 setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
About the audio connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Connecting your TV and playback components . . . . . 29
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Connecting your DVD player with no HDMI
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, BD recorder
and other video sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other
set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . 34
Connecting other audio components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
About the WMA9 Pro decoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Connecting AM/FM antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
MULTI-ZONE setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Making MULTI-ZONE connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Connecting to the network through LAN interface. . . 38
Connecting Optional Bluetooth® ADAPTER . . . . . . . 39
Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to the
front panel input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connecting an XM Radio tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connecting a SiriusConnect™ tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Connecting a USB device for Advanced MCACC
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Operating other Pioneer components with this
unit's sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching components on and off using the 12 volt
trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Plugging in the receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
04 Basic Setup
Changing the OSD display language
(OSD Language) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Automatically conducting optimum sound tuning
(Full Auto MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 45
The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Input function default and possible settings . . . . . . 46
05 Basic playback
Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Playing a source with HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . 47
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . 47
Playing an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . 48
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 Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Listening to Satellite Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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