Pioneer VSX94TXH Owner's Manual - Page 57
Other connections, Speaker B setup, Bi-amping your front speakers - review
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Other connections 08 Speaker B setup Caution • Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the power outlet. Plugging in components should be the last connection you make with your system. • Be careful not to allow any contact between speaker wires from different terminals. • You can use speakers with a nominal impedance between 6 Ω to 16 Ω (please see Switching the speaker impedance on page 74 if you plan to use speakers with an impedance of less than 8 Ω). After selecting Speaker B in Surround back speaker setting on page 39, you can use the speakers connected to the (surround back) B speaker terminals on the rear panel to listen to stereo playback in another room. See Switching the speaker system below for the listening options with this setup. 1 Connect a pair of speakers to the surround back speaker terminals on the rear panel. Connect them the same way you connected your speakers in Installing your speaker system on page 19. Make sure to review Placing the speakers on page 20 when placing the speakers in another room. 2 Select 'Speaker B' from the 'Surr Back System' menu. See Surround back speaker setting on page 39 to do this. Switching the speaker system If you selected Speaker B in Surround back speaker setting on page 39, three speaker system settings are possible using the SPEAKERS button. If you selected Normal (default) or Front Bi-Amp, the button will simply switch your main speaker system on or off. The options below are for the Speaker B setting only.1 • Use the SPEAKERS button on the front panel to select a speaker system setting. As mentioned above, if you have selected Normal (default), the button will simply switch your main speaker system (A) on or off. SPEAKERS AUDIO PARAMETER VIDEO (TUNE) PHONES (ST) ENTER (ST) TUNER EDIT BAND MULTI - ZONE & SOURCE/REC SEL CONTROL ON/OFF SIGNAL SB ch STEREO/ SELECT PROCESSING F.S.SURR MCACC USB SETUP MIC VIDEO/GAME 2 INPUT • SPA - Sound is output from speaker system A and the same signal is output from the pre-out terminals. • SPB - Sound is output from the two speakers connected to speaker system B. Multichannel sources will not be heard. The same signal is output from the surround back channel pre-out terminals. • SPAB - Sound is output from speaker system A (up to 5 channels, depending on the source), the two speakers in speaker system B, and the subwoofer. The sound from speaker system B will be the same as the sound from speaker system A (multichannel sources will be downmixed to 2 channels). • SP (off) - No sound is output from the speakers. The same sound is output from the pre-out terminals (including from your subwoofer, if connected) as when selecting speaker system A (above). Bi-amping your front speakers Bi-amping is when you connect the high frequency driver and low frequency driver of your speakers to different amplifiers (in this case, to both front and surround back terminals) for better crossover performance. Your speakers must be bi-ampable to do this (having separate terminals for high and low) and the sound improvement will depend on the kind of speakers you're using. 1 Connect your speakers as shown below. This illustration below shows the connections for biamping your front left speaker. Hook up your front right speaker in the same way. SPEAKERS A R FRONT L CENTER R SURROUND L SURROUND R BACK / L(Single) B Front left speaker High SELECTABLE Low Since both front and surround back speaker terminals output the same audio, it doesn't matter which set (front or surround back) is powering which part (High or Low) of the speaker. • Make sure that the + / - connections are properly inserted. SETUP (TUNE) RETURN DIGITAL IN S-VIDEO VIDEO L AUDIO R Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system option: Note 1 • The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in Manual speaker setup on page 47. However, if SPB is selected above, no sound is heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed). • Depending on the settings in Surround back speaker setting on page 39 output from the surround back pre-out terminals may change. • All speaker systems (except Speaker B connections) are switched off when headphones are connected. 57 En
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