Pioneer SC-LX90 User Manual
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Contents
01 Before you start
02 Simple Home Theater Guide
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Selecting the speaker layout/usage pattern . . . . . . . . . 9
Normal surround connections (default setting) . . . . . 9
5.2-channel Bi-amp connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2-channel front Bi-amp connections . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2-channel + Zone 2 connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.2-channel + speaker B connections . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Positioning and connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . 10
Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . 13
Playing a source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Better sound using Phase Control and
Full Band Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
03 Connecting your equipment
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
When making cable connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting your TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting your Blu-ray disc player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or
other set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting a DVD/HDD recorder, VCR and
other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Connecting digital audio sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Connecting a component to
the front panel inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Placing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Plugging in the amplifier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
04 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . 31
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
05 Listening to your system
Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Front Stage Surround Advance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Selecting MCACC presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using surround back channel processing . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the genre synchronizing function . . . . . . . . . . . 39
06 The System Setup menu
Making amplifier settings from
the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Automatic MCACC (Expert) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Speaker output setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Manual MCACC setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Fine-adjusting the positions of the speakers
(Precision Distance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Standing Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Acoustic Calibration EQ Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional. . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Full Band Phase Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Speaker Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
X-Curve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
THX Audio Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
07 Other connections
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Connecting your iPod to the amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . 56
iPod playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Watching photos and video content . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching the iPod operation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using the i.LINK interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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.
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