Pioneer VSX-43TX Owner's Manual - Page 11

EASY SETUP GUIDE Easy Setup Guide Part1 2 Speaker Connections Home theater is designed to be setup with five, or seven speakers (front left & right; center; surround left & right; and, optimally, surround back left & right) and a subwoofer, but you can use this receiver with fewer speakers. Hook up the speakers you have to the A speaker terminals on the back of the receiver. If you only have two speakers hook them up as FRONT. If you have three hook up the single speaker as CENTER. Follow the diagram below in order to hook up all your speakers. A center speaker is very important for watching films because in digital soundtracks the dialog comes from the center speaker. If you do not have a center speaker you must tell the receiver the center channel is off or when you listen to digital soundtracks you won't hear any dialog. This can be easily accomplished by following the steps in the Surround Sound QUICK setup instructions from page 13 of the Easy Setup Guide. If possible, use surround back speakers. These speakers are important to take full advantage of all the sound channels on new, eight channel home theater DVDs. The diagram below also explains how to hook up a subwoofer which provides realistic bass sounds. For the subwoofer use a mono (single plug) RCA cord and for the other speakers use regular speaker cords. See pages 91-92 for advice on speaker placement. Make sure you connect the speaker on the right to the R terminal and the speaker on the left to the L terminal. Also make sure the positive and negative (+/-) terminals on the receiver match those on the speakers. Front speaker (Left) Powered subwoofer INPUT TV/monitor Center speaker Front speaker (Right) Surround speaker (Left) ASSIGNABLE PCM/ 2DIGITAL / DTS FM UNBAL 75Ω OUT1 IN OUT OUT2 CONTROL R L IN 1 PLAY (TV/ SAT) IN IN 2 CD-R/ (CD-R/ TAPE1 TAPE1) OUT REC IN 3 (DVD/ LD) IN 4 (CD) PLAY IN MD/ TAPE2 OUT REC CD IN DIGITAL LINE IN R L AUDIO AM LOOP ANTENNA PRE OUT CENTER SUB WOOFER ASSIGNABLE MONITOR OUT Y PB MONITOR OUT R L AUDIO FRONT IN VCR1/ DVR OUT IN VCR2 OUT TV/ SAT IN R SURROUND R SURROUND BACK R FRONT R SURROUND R SUB WOOFER L L (Single) L L L CEN- TER DVD/ LD IN SURROUND BACK R L VIDEO S VIDEO VIDEO MULTI CH IN PR (DVD/LD) IN 1 Y PB PR (TV/SAT) IN 2 Y PB PR COMPONENT VIDEO AC OUTLET SPEAKERS Å R FRONT L ª CENTER R SURROUND L SURROUND BACK / ı R L ª · · Surround speaker (Right) Surround back speaker (Left) Surround back speaker (Right) memo • We recommend speakers with a nominal impedance rated 8 Ω-16 Ω, but you can change the speaker impedance setting of the receiver (see page 25). • If you only have one surround back speaker hook it up to the left surround back terminal. • If you use a THX certified subwoofer use the THX INPUT jack on the subwoofer (if your subwoofer has one) or switch the filter position to THX on your subwoofer. • When you attached your speaker wire to the speaker terminal make sure that not even one strand of wire touches the back of the receiver. If this happens it could short out the receiver. 7 Speaker terminals 1 Twist exposed wire strands together tightly. 2 Loosen speaker terminal and insert exposed wire. 3 Tighten terminal. 3/8 in(10mm) The speaker terminals also accept single banana plugs. (Refer to speaker manual for details.) 11