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Pioneer SC-LX81 User Manual

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09 Other connections

Connecting the multichannel analog inputs. . . . . . . . . 61

Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . 61

Speaker B setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Bi-amping your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Bi-wiring your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
MULTI-ZONE listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Making MULTI-ZONE connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Using the MULTI-ZONE controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Connecting an IR receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Switching components on and off
using the 12 volt trigger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Using this receiver with a Pioneer flat screen TV . . . . . 68
Using the SR+ mode with a Pioneer flat
screen TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output . . . . . . 70

Advanced MCACC output using your PC . . . . . . . . . . 70

10 Playback with HOME MEDIA GALLERY
inputs

Enjoying the Home Media Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Features of Home Media Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Steps to enjoy the Home Media Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Playing back audio files on the network
and listening to Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Playing back audio or photo files stored
on a USB memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod. . . . . . . . . 72

Connecting to the network through LAN interface. . . . 72
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
About network playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Windows Media Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Windows Media DRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
DLNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Content playable over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
About playback behavior over a network . . . . . . . . . . 74
Authorizing this receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Playback with Home Media Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Playing back audio files stored on components
on the network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod. . . . . . . . . 76
Playing back audio files stored on a USB
memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Finding what you want to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Playing back photo files stored in components
on the network or USB memory device. . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Listening to Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Listening to Neural Music Direct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Playing back your favorite songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Advanced operations for Internet radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Saving Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Retrieving saved Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Setting up the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Checking the network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Software update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

11 HDMI Control

Making the HDMI Control connections . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Setting the HDMI options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Setting the HDMI Control mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Before using synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Synchronized amp mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Synchronized amp mode operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Canceling synchronized amp mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

About HDMI Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
About PQLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

12 Other Settings

The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Input function default and possible settings . . . . . . . 91

Changing the OSD display language
(OSD Language) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
The Other Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Multi Channel Input Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
ZONE Audio Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
SR+ Setup for Pioneer flat screen TVs. . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Flicker Reduction Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

13 Using other functions

Setting the Audio options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Setting the Video options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Making an audio or a video recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Reducing the level of an analog signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Dimming the display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Switching the HDMI output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Checking your system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Resetting the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Default system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

14 Controlling the rest of your system

Setting the remote to control
other components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Selecting preset codes directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Programming signals from other
remote controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Erasing one of the remote control
button settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Resetting the remote control presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Confirming preset codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Renaming input source names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Direct function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Multi Operation and System Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Programming a multi-operation
or a shutdown sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Using multi operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Using System off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Controls for TVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Controls for other components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Operating other Pioneer components
with this unit’s sensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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