Manual Pioneer VSX-D812 (page 4 of 72) (English)

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Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Operating range of the remote

control unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

03 Connecting up

Audio/Video cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

S-video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Component video cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Digital audio coaxial cords/

Optical cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting digital components . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting audio components . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting DVD multi-channel

components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting video components. . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting to the front panel

video terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

AM loop antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting the speakers (VSX-D712) . . . . 21

Connecting the speakers (VSX-D812) . . . . 22

Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

A and B speaker systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Hints on speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . 23

Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . 26

AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Power cord caution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Operating other Pioneer components . . . . 28

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

05 Playing sources

Introduction to Sound Modes . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Stereo/Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Standard mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Advanced Surround modes . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Listening to multi-channel playback . . . . . 38

Using Stereo/Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using Advanced Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the Surround Back

Channel (SB CH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using the Virtual Surround Back

mode (VSB). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . 42

Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Selecting the multi-channel

analog inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

06 Setting up the receiver

Choosing your receiver setup . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . 46

Subwoofer setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Crossover frequency setting. . . . . . . . . . . 46

LFE attenuator setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Front left speaker distance setting . . . . . 47

Center speaker distance setting . . . . . . . 47

Front right speaker distance setting . . . . 48

Surround right speaker

distance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Surround back speaker

distance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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