Pioneer VSX-56TXi Owner's Manual - Page 94

12 Additional information Symptom Cause Remedy Can't record audio. • You are trying to make an analog recording •You can only record analog to analog, or digital to digital. from a digital signal, or a digital recording of an analog source. • The digital source is copy protected. • You can't record digital sources that have been copy protected. • The analog REC jacks have not been connected properly. • Check your analog connections (see Connecting analog audio sources on page 26). Subwoofer output is very low. • The bass attenuator is set too low. • See Bass Peak Level on page 89 to adjust the setting. • The speaker settings result in very little audio signal being sent to the subwoofer. • Change your subwoofer setting to one of the following in the Speaker Setting on page 51: Front: SMALL / Subwoofer: YES Front: LARGE / Subwoofer: PLUS Everything seems to be set up • The speakers are out of phase. correctly, but the playback sound is odd. • Check that the positive/negative speaker terminals on the receiver are matched with the corresponding terminals on the speakers (page 28). Noise or hum can be heard even • There is electrical interference from another • Check that personal computers or other digital when there is no sound being component or appliance. components connected to the same power source are not input. causing interference. There seems to be a time lag between the speakers and the output of the subwoofer. • The subwoofer channel can be delayed slightly if run through a low-pass filter. • See Automatically setting up for surround sound on page 12 to set up your system again using MCACC (this will automatically compensate for a delay in the subwoofer output). Video Symptom Cause Remedy No image is output when an input is selected. • The video connections are incorrect. • Make sure the video component is connected correctly (see pages 19-27). • You are using component video connections for your source, but not for your TV. • Using the video converter, video signals can be converted from a composite or S-video input to a component video output, but not vice-versa. See About the video converter on page 16 for more on this. • You are using component video • Check Assigning the component video inputs on page 78 connections and the component video inputs to make sure you're assigned the correct input. are assigned incorrectly. • The DVD/video player settings are incorrect. • Set correctly. Refer to the instruction manual supplied with the DVD/video player. • The video input selected on the TV monitor • Set correctly. Refer to the instruction manual supplied is incorrect. with the TV. • Even though the sub room monitor is • Press the MULTI ROOM&SOURCE ON/OFF button to connected properly, the multi-room feature is switch it on. switched off. • The component video inputs are assigned to a video component connected only to the composite or S-Video terminals. • Check Assigning the component video inputs on page 78 to make sure the component video assign for that video component is switched to OFF. The System Setup screen doesn't appear. • The MONITOR OUT jack hasn't been • Connect the MONITOR OUT jack to the TV monitor (see connected. Connecting your TV on page 18). • You connected your TV to the MULTI ROOM & SOURCE MONITOR OUT jack instead of the main MONITOR OUT jack. • Some TVs connected to the receiver with component video cables do not display the System Setup screen when the Color Burst feature is on. • When the receiver is in standby, switch to COLOR BURST OFF by holding down the MULTI JOG CONTROL RETURN button and pressing STANDBY/ON. (the current setting appears in the display). Screen noise when playing back • The video source signal has a problem. a video source. • If your video connections use mixed cable types (for example RCA standard video to a component video connection), you may want to try connecting your system using only one cable type (for example, use RCA standard video cable for all connections). 94 En