Table Of Contents - Pioneer Elite VSX-44 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read
through these operating instructions so you will know how to
operate your model properly.
Features
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Before you start
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Checking what's in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Flow of settings on the receiver
01 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
02 Connecting your equipment
Determining the speakers' application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connect the surround back or front height speakers. . . 16
Switching the speaker terminal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Digital audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
About video outputs connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting a TV and playback components . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Connecting optional Bluetooth ADAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting to the network through LAN interface . . . . . . 22
Connecting to a wireless LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting an IR receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Switching components on and off using the
12 volt trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Connecting a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting a MHL-compatible device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Enjoy Roku video streaming service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to the front
panel input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
03 Basic Setup
Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) . . 27
Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup . . . 28
04 Basic playback
Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Selecting the audio input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Playing an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing back files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switches between the iPod controls and the receiver
controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing back photo files stored on a USB memory
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing a MHL-compatible device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Enjoy Roku video streaming service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Bluetooth ADAPTER for Wireless Enjoyment of
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Wireless music play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Pairing the Bluetooth ADAPTER and Bluetooth wireless
technology device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth wireless
technology device with Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
05 Listening to your system
Choosing the listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the Advanced surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using surround back channel processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Setting the Up Mix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
06 Playback with NETWORK features
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
About playable DLNA network devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using AirPlay on iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and
iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
About the DHCP server function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Authorizing this receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
About HTC Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Playback with Network functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Listening to Internet radio stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Listening to Pandora Internet Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
About the Spotify audio stream playback function . . . . . . 45
Preparations (1) Installing the Spotify application
on mobile devices and registering a Spotify Premium
account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Preparations (2) Connecting this unit to the network . . . 45
In order to use the Spotify audio stream playback
function from the Spotify application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Playing back audio files stored on components
on the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Playing back your favorite songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Network Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Firmware Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Network setting using Safari browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Friendly Name setting using Safari browser. . . . . . . . . . 48
Firmware update using Safari browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Factory Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About network playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Content playable over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
About playback behavior over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
07 Home Menu
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Manual speaker setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
X.Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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