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Contents
Our philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
01 Before you start
Checking the supplied accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Operating range of the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recharging the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Setting up the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Calibrating the remote control screen . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Setting the button alert volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Setting the time-out setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Resetting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Locking the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Restarting the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Replacing the lithium-ion batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Connecting your equipment
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting a DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting the multichannel analog outputs . . . . 16
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other
set-top box
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting digital audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting a component to the front panel inputs . . 23
Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
About the supplied AC power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Basic remote control displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Remote control displays for the tuner . . . . . . . . . . 33
Remote control displays for other components . . . 34
04 Getting started
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Automatically setting up for surround sound . . . . . . 37
Other problems when using the Auto Surround
Setup
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)
player
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
05 Listening to your system
About the listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the Stream Direct mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting the input signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting USB and multichannel analog input
channels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Listening to high-sampling formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using the surround back channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Listening with virtual surround back speakers . . . . . 49
Creating a center speaker effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using Hi-bit and Hi-sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the tone control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switching the tone control on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Reducing noise during playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Listening to dual mono soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
06 Using the tuner
Changing the frequency step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Finding a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
MPX mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Memorizing station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Listening to memorized station presets . . . . . . . . . 55