Pioneer VSX-519V-K Owner's Manual - Page 8

02 5 minute guide Chapter 2: 5 minute guide Introduction to home theater Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio tracks to create a surround sound effect, making you feel like you're in the middle of the action or concert. The surround sound you get from a home theater system depends not only on your speaker setup, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver. This receiver will automatically decode multichannel Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround sources according to your speaker setup. In most cases, you won't have to make changes for realistic surround sound, but other possibilities (like listening to a CD with multichannel surround sound) are explained in Listening to your system on page 28. Listening to Surround Sound With the following quick setup guide, you should have your system hooked up for surround sound in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply leave the receiver in the default settings. • Be sure to complete all connections before connecting to an AC power source. 1 Connect your TV and Blu-ray Disc player or DVD player. See Connecting a TV and Blu-ray Disc player or DVD player on page 11 to do this. For surround sound, you'll want to hook up using a digital connection from the BD/DVD player to the receiver. 2 Connect your speakers and place them for optimal surround sound. See Connecting the speakers on page 18. Where you place the speakers will have a big effect on the sound. Place your speakers as shown below for the best surround sound effect. Also see Hints on speaker placement on page 19 for more on this. Subwoofer (SW) Front Left (L) Front Right (R) Surround Right (SR) Center (C) Surround Left (SL) Listening position 3 Plug in and switch on the receiver, followed by your BD/DVD player, subwoofer and TV. Make sure you've set the video input on your TV to this receiver. Check the manual that came with the TV if you don't know how to do this. 4 Set the connection of the speaker and the subwoofer. Perform Speaker setting of Manual speaker setup in Using the System Setup menu on page 35. 5 Play a BD/DVD, and adjust the volume. Make sure that BD/DVD is showing in the receiver's display, indicating that the BD/DVD input is selected. If it isn't, press BD on the remote to set the receiver to the BD/DVD input. There are several other sound options you can select. See Listening to your system on page 28 for more on this.1 See also The System Setup menu on page 35 for more setup options. Note 1 Depending on your BD/DVD player or source discs, you may only get digital 2 channel stereo and analog sound. In this case, the listening mode must be set to STANDARD (it should already be set-see Listening in surround sound on page 28 if you need to do this) if you want multichannel surround sound. 8 En