PIONEER VSX-1014-S Owner's Manual

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AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL
RECEIVER
VSX-1014-S
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Operating Instructions
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AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL
RECEIVER
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Operating Instructions
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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
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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Before plugging in for the first time, read the following
section carefully.
WARNING
To prevent a fire hazard, do not place any naked
flame sources (such as a lighted candle) on the
equipment.
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WARNING
This equipment is not waterproof. To prevent a fire
or shock hazard, do not place any container filled
with liquid near this equipment (such as a vase or
flower pot) or expose it to dripping, splashing, rain
or moisture.
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VENTILATION CAUTION
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
Slots and openings in the cabinet are provided for
ventilation to ensure reliable operation of the
product, and to protect it from overheating. To
prevent fire hazard, the openings should never be
blocked or covered with items (such as newspapers,
table-cloths, curtains) or by operating the
equipment on thick carpet or a bed.
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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 this unit in a poorly ventilated area, or in
locations exposed to high humidity or direct sunlight (or
strong artificial light)
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When disposing of used batteries, please comply
with governmental regulations or
environmental public instruction's rules that
apply in your country/area.
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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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CAUTION
The
STANDBY/ON switch on this unit will not
completely shut off all power from the AC outlet.
Since the power cord serves as the main disconnect
device for the unit, you will need to unplug it from
the AC outlet to shut down all power. Therefore,
make sure the unit has been installed so that the
power cord can be easily unplugged from the AC
outlet in case of an accident. To avoid fire hazard,
the power cord should also be unplugged from the
AC outlet when left unused for a long period of time
(for example, when on vacation).
If the AC plug of this unit does not match the AC
outlet you want to use, the plug must be removed
and appropriate one fitted. Replacement and
mounting of an AC plug on the power supply cord of
this unit should be performed only by qualified
service personnel. If connected to an AC outlet, the
cut-off plug can cause severe electrical shock. Make
sure it is properly disposed of after removal.
The equipment should be disconnected by removing
the mains plug from the wall socket when left
unused for a long period of time (for example, when
on vacation).
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TWO VOLTAGE SELECTORS
230-
240 V
120-127 V
110V
220 V
220V
230-240V
110V
120- 127V
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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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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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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Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . . 7
02 5 minute guide
Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Automatically setting up for surround sound
(MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Other problems when using the Auto MCACC
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)
player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Playing a source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
03 Connecting up
About cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Video cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
When making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
About the RS-232C connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting digital audio components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting analog audio components . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting multichannel analog components . . . . . 17
Connecting video components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting to the front panel video terminal . . . . . . 18
Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using an external antenna to improve FM
reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Hints on speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
AC power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Operating other Pioneer components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
04 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
05 Listening to your system
Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Neo:6 Music settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using the surround back channel
(Extended mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Virtual Surround Back mode
(VirtualSB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using Loudness and Midnight listening . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
06 The System Setup menu
Making receiver settings from the System Setup
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fine Channel Distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
07 Using the tuner
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Improving FM stereo sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
08 Making recordings
Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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09 Controlling the rest of your system
Setting the remote to control other components . . . . 50
Selecting preset codes directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Programming signals from other remote controls. . . 51
Erasing one of the remote control button settings. . . 52
Erasing all of the remote control presets . . . . . . . . . . 52
Direct function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Confirming preset codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Controls for TVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Controls for other components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
10 Other connections
Second Zone speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Bi-amping your front speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Bi-wiring your speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Multi-room listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Making multi-room connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Using the sub room controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using the i.LINK interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
About i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
About PQLS rate control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Switching components on and off using the
12 volt trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using this receiver with a Pioneer plasma display . . . 61
Using the SR+ mode with a Pioneer plasma
display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
11 Other Settings
The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
The Other Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SR+ Setup for Pioneer plasma displays . . . . . . . . . 67
Multi Room Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
12 Volt Trigger Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SACD Gain Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
12 Additional information
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
No sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Other audio problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
i.LINK interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
i.LINK messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Changing the frequency step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switching the speaker impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Changing the TV format setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Surround sound formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Dolby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
DTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
About THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Cleaning the unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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