Pioneer VSX-43TX Owner's Manual - Page 21
Connecting Digital Audio Components
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PREPARATION PREPARATION Connecting Your Equipment Connecting Digital Audio Components Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet. Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSX-43TX has two coaxial, two optical inputs for a total of four digital inputs. In order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS (among others) 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). Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings (see next page) unless you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on page 76. There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD 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. We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see page 19) in order to make recordings because some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies. *The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal. 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 MONITOR OUT IN VCR1/ DVR OUT IN VCR2 OUT TV/ SAT IN FRONT R SURROUND R SURROUND BACK R FRONT R SURROUND R SUB WOOFER L L (Single) L L L CEN- TER R L AUDIO DVD/ LD IN SURROUND BACK R L VIDEO S VIDEO VIDEO MULTI CH IN DIGITAL OUTPUT DIGITAL OUTPUT (PLAY) DIGITAL INPUT (REC) Satellite tuner DIGITAL OUTPUT CD recorder (not a PCM-only output) DVD player DIGITAL OUTPUT CD player 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. Be sure to insert completely and in the case of the optical cable, right-side up. If it is inserted improperly it can break the shutter on the optical terminal (this won't, however, affect the connection or insertion of an optical cable). Coaxial cord (or standard [composite] video cord) Optical cable 21
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