PIONEER VSX-AX10AI-G/SF - Owner's Manual Immediate Download

AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL

RECEIVER

VSX-AX10Ai-G

Operating Instructions

Thank you for buying this pioneer product.

Please read through these operating

instructions so you will know how to

operate your model properly. After you

have finished reading the instructions, put

them away in a safe place for future

reference.

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The exclamation point within an equilateral

triangle is intended to alert the user to the

presence of important operating and

maintenance (servicing) instructions in the

literature accompanying the appliance.

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol,

within an equilateral triangle, is intended to

alert the user to the presence of uninsulated

"dangerous voltage" within the product's

enclosure that may be of sufficient

magnitude to constitute a risk of electric

shock to persons.

CAUTION:

TO PREVENT THE RISK OF ELECTRIC

SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR

BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS

INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED

SERVICE PERSONNEL.

CAUTION

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT OPEN

IMPORTANT

WARNING: No naked flame sources, such as

lighted candle, should be placed on the apparatus.

If naked flame sources accidentally fall down, fire

spread over the apparatus then may cause fire.

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WARNING: The apparatus is not waterproofs, to

prevent fire or shocks hazard, do not expose this

apparatus to rain or moisture and do not put any

water source near this apparatus, such as vase,

flower pot, cosmetics container and medicine

bottle etc.

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Operating Environment

Operating environment temperature and humidity:

+5 ºC +35 ºC (+41 ºF +95 ºF); less than 85 %RH

(cooling vents not blocked)

Do not install in the following locations

· Location exposed to direct sunlight or strong artificial

light

· Location exposed to high humidity, or poorly

ventilated location

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WARNING:

BEFORE PLUGGING IN THE UNIT FOR THE FIRST

TIME, READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION CAREFULLY.

The voltage of the available power supply differs

according to country or region. Be sure that the

power supply voltage of the area where this unit

will be used meets the required voltage (e.g., 230V

or 120V) written on the rear panel.

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VENTILATION: When installing this unit, make

sure to leave space around the unit for ventilation

to improve heat radiation (at least 60 cm at top, 10

cm at rear, and 30 cm at each side).

WARNING: Slot and openings in the cabinet are

provided for ventilation and to ensure reliable

operation of the product and to protect it from

overheating, to prevent fire hazard, the openings

should never be blocked and covered with items,

such as newspapers, table-cloths, curtains, etc. Also

do not put the apparatus on the thick carpet, bed,

sofa, or fabric having a thick pile.

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NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to

Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in

a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not

installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does

cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off

and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

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Information to User

Alteration or modifications carried out without appropriate authorization may invalidate the user's right to operate

the equipment.

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CAUTION: This product satisfies FCC regulations when shielded cables and connectors are used to connect the

unit to other equipment. To prevent electromagnetic interference with electric appliances such as radios and

televisions, use shielded cables and connectors for connections.

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TWO VOLTAGE SELECTORS

220V

230-240V

110V

120-127V

110V

120-127V

230-240V

220V

Voltage selector

You can find the voltage selector switch on the rear

panel of multi-voltage models.

The factory setting for the voltage selector is 220V.

Please set it to the correct voltage for your country

or region.

· Saudi Arabia operates on 127V and 220V mains

voltage. Please set to the correct voltage before using.

· For Taiwan, please set to 110V before using.

· For Mexico, please set to 120-127V before using.

Before changing the voltage, disconnect the AC power

cord. Use a medium size screwdriver to change the

voltage selector switch.

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Medium size

screwdriver

This product is for general household purposes. Any

failure due to use for other than household purposes

(such as long-term use for business purposes in a

restaurant or use in a car or ship) and which

requires repair will be charged for even during the

warranty period.

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The

OFF /ON

switch is secondary connected and

therefore, does not separate the unit from mains

power in

OFF

position. Therefore install the unit

suitable places easy to disconnect the MAINS plug

in case of the accident. The MAINS plug of unit

should be unplugged from the wall socket when left

unused for a long period of time.

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Contents

Our philosophy

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Features

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01 Before you start

Checking the supplied accessories

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Using the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Operating range of the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . 7

Recharging the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Setting up the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Calibrating the remote control screen

. . . . . . . . . . . 8

Setting the clock

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Setting the button alert volume

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Setting the time-out setting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Resetting the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Locking the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Restarting the remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Replacing the lithium-ion batteries

. . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

When making cable connections

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting your TV

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting a DVD player

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting the multichannel analog outputs

. . . . 16

Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other

set-top box

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting other video sources

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the component video jacks

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

About the video converter

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting digital audio sources

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting analog audio sources

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting a component to the front panel inputs

. . 23

Installing your speaker system

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting the speakers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Placing the speakers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Connecting antennas

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

AM loop antenna

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

FM wire antenna

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Connecting external antennas

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Plugging in the receiver

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

About the supplied AC power cords

. . . . . . . . . . . . 27

03 Controls and displays

Front panel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Display

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Basic remote control displays

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Remote control displays for the tuner

. . . . . . . . . . 33

Remote control displays for other components

. . . 34

04 Getting started

Introduction to home theater

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Automatically setting up for surround sound

. . . . . . 37

Other problems when using the Auto Surround

Setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)

player

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Playing a source

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

05 Listening to your system

About the listening modes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Listening in surround sound

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using the Advanced surround effects

. . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the Home THX modes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Listening in stereo

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Listening with headphones

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the multichannel analog inputs

. . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Stream Direct mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ

. . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting the input signal type

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting USB and multichannel analog input

channels

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Listening to high-sampling formats

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using the surround back channel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Listening with virtual surround back speakers

. . . . . 49

Creating a center speaker effect

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using Hi-bit and Hi-sampling

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using Midnight and Loudness listening

. . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the tone control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Switching the tone control on or off

. . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Adjusting the bass and treble

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Reducing noise during playback

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Listening to dual mono soundtracks

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

06 Using the tuner

Changing the frequency step

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Finding a station

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Tuning directly to a station

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

MPX mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Memorizing station presets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Naming station presets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Listening to memorized station presets

. . . . . . . . . 55

07 The Surround Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the Surround

Setup menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Speaker Systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Channel Level

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Speaker Distance

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Acoustic Calibration EQ

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Professional Acoustic Calibration EQ

. . . . . . . . . . 62

X-Curve

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Checking your surround settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

08 Controlling other equipment

Using the remote control with other components

. . 66

Recalling preset codes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Programming signals from other remote controls

. . 68

Remote Direct function

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Editing remote control button names

. . . . . . . . . . . 69

Multi Operation and System Off

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Programming a multi operation or a shutdown

sequence

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Switching components on and off using the

12 volt trigger

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Operating other Pioneer components with this

unit's sensor

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

09 Using other functions

Making an audio or a video recording

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Monitoring your recording

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Reducing the level of an analog signal

. . . . . . . . . . 75

Adjusting the delay of a soundtrack

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Watching video and audio sources independently

. . 76

Enhancing SACD playback

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the A/D converters to give greater definition

to 2-channel sound

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Dimming the display

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Switching the speaker impedance

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Checking your system settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Resetting the system

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Default receiver settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

10 Other connections

Using speaker system B

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Switching the speaker system

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using speaker system B in another room

. . . . . . . 80

Alternating surround speaker setups using

speaker system B (ITU-R)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Bi-amping your front speakers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Bi-wiring your speakers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Adding a second set of surround speakers for

Bi-Surround

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Using the pre-outs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Connecting additional amplifiers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Connecting an external stereo pre-amplifier

. . . . . 83

Using the i.LINK interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

About i.LINK

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

About PQLS rate control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Creating an i.LINK network

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the USB interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output

. . . . 86

Advanced MCACC output using your PC

. . . . . . . . 87

11 Advanced setup

The Input Assign menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Assigning the digital inputs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Assigning the component video inputs

. . . . . . . . . 89

Assigning the i.LINK inputs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Assigning the video inputs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

The Expert Setup menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

OSD Adjustment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Bass Peak Level

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Dynamic Range Control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Function Rename

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

OSD Overlay

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

12 Volt Trigger

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

THX Audio Setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

THX Ultra2 Subwoofer Setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Surround Back Speaker Position

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

12 Additional information

Optimizing your speaker setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Basic surround setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

THX speaker system setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Speaker system setup for DVD-Audio/

multichannel music sources

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Troubleshooting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Power

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

No sound

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