Pioneer VSX-37TX Owner's Manual - Page 13

PREPARATION Connecting Your Equipment Digital Connections In order to use Dolby Digital/DTS soundtracks which are at the heart of home theater you need to make digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection (you don't need to do both). The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some digital components only have one type of digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example, the coaxial out from the component to coaxial in on the receiver). The VSX-37TX/36TX has two coaxial and three optical inputs for a total of five digital inputs. For the VSX-37TX, A DVD/LD player or LD player should be connected to a digital jack and the special 2 RF jack (if the LD has one) as well as a pair of analog jacks (see the next page). If possible hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings, see "Digital Input Assignment", below left, in order to do this. We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks in order to make recording from some digital sources which may be copy protected. Connect your digital components as shown below. There are two optical digital out jacks (the MD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can make direct digital recordings with this unit. Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet. *The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal. VSX-37TX DIGITAL OUTPUT (not a PCM-only output) 2 RF IN IN 1 (AC-3) IN 2 IN 3 IN 4 SURR- PRE OUT OUND PCM/ 2/ IN 5 DTS DIGITAL R L MULTI CH IN OUT 1 OUT 2 FM UNBAL 75‰ FRONT R L L FRONT FM ANTENNA CENTER PLAY SUB R WOOFER L TAPE2 MONITOR SURROUND REC R AUDIO R L DVD / LD IN VIDEO VIDEO IN S2 VIDEO COMPONENT VIDEO DVD/LD TV/SAT IN IN Y TV / SAT IN PB IN IN IN VCR1 / DVR OUT OUT PR MONITOR Y OUT IN IN PB VCR2 OUT OUT PR CD IN AM LOOP ANTENNA MULTIROOM & SOURCE OUT R L AUDIO CENTER SUB WOOFER R PLAY MD / TAPE1/ CD-R REC MONITOR OUT MONITOR OUT IN MULTI CH IN SURROUND R BACK L PHONO OUT IN REMOTE IN L MULTI-ROOM CONTROL & SOURCE R SURROUND L (Single) BACK PRE OUT DIGITAL OUTPUT DVD player (for VSX-36TX DVD Player hook up see p.14) DIGITAL OUTPUT CD player DIGITAL OUTPUT (PLAY) INPUT (REC) TV tuner MD recorder 7 Coaxial cords/Optical cables Commercially available digital audio coaxial cords (standard video cords can also be used) or optical cables (not supplied) are used to connect digital components to this receiver. When you use optical digital input or output terminals, pull off the caps and insert the plugs. Be sure to insert completely. Coaxial cord (or standard video cord) Optical cable 13