PIONEER VSX-2014I-S/HYXJ Owner's Manual

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AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL

RECEIVER

VSX-1014

VSX-2014i

Operating Instructions

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AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL

RECEIVER

VSX-1014

VSX-2014i

Operating Instructions

VSX_2014TX.book.fm Page 1 Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:21 PM

D3-4-2-1-1_En-A

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

Do not connect either wire to the earth terminal of a

three pin plug.

NOTE

After replacing or changing a fuse, the fuse cover in

the plug must be replaced with a fuse cover which

corresponds to the colour of the insert in the base

of the plug or the word that is embossed on the

base of the plug, and the appliance must not be

used without a fuse cover. If lost replacement fuse

covers can be obtained from your dealer.

Only 10 A fuses approved by B.S.I or A.S.T.A to

B.S.1362 should be used.

D3-4-2-1-2-2_En

The wires in this mains lead are coloured in

accordance with the following code:

Blue

: Neutral

Brown : Live

If the plug provided is unsuitable for your socket

outlets, the plug must be cut off and a suitable plug

fitted.

IMPORTANT

FOR USE IN THE UNITED

KINGDOM

The cut-off plug should be disposed of and must

not be inserted into any 13 amp socket as this can

result in electric shock. The plug or adaptor or the

distribution panel should be provided with 10 A

fuse. As the colours of the wires in the mains lead

of this appliance may not correspond with coloured

markings identifying the terminals in your plug,

proceed as follows ;

The wire which is coloured blue must be connected

to the terminal which is marked with the letter N or

coloured black.

The wire which is coloured brown must be

connected to the terminal which is marked with the

letter L or coloured red.

Replacement and mounting of an AC plug on the power supply cord of this unit should be performed only by qualified

service personnel.

WARNING

To prevent a fire hazard, do not place any naked

flame sources (such as a lighted candle) on the

equipment.

D3-4-2-1-7a_A_En

This product complies with the Low Voltage Directive

(73/23/EEC, amended by 93/68/EEC), EMC Directives

(89/336/EEC, amended by 92/31/EEC and

93/68/EEC).

D3-4-2-1-9a_En

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.

D3-4-2-1-3_A_En

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,

equipment on thick carpet or a bed.

D3-4-2-1-7b_A_En

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)

D3-4-2-1-7c_A_En

When disposing of used batteries, please comply

with governmental regulations or

environmental public instruction's rules that

apply in your country/area.

D3-4-2-3-1_En

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.

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.

D3-4-2-1-4_A_En

Before plugging in for the first time, read the following

section carefully.

D/L

/SA

R/V

VID

CD-

VID

X-5

DIO

/VID

I-C

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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).

D3-4-2-2-1a_A_En

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.

K041_En

Important information about this unit`s AC outlets

Switched total 100 W MAX

Power supplied through these outlets is turned on and off by this unit's

STANDBY/ON switch. Total electrical

power consumption of connected equipment should not exceed 100 W.

CAUTION

· Do not connect a TV set, monitor, heater or similar appliance to this unit's AC outlet.

· Do not connect appliances with high power consumption to the AC outlet in order to avoid overheating and fire

risk. This can cause this unit to malfunction.

D3-4-2-2-1b_A_En

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Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Checking what's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hints on speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Operating other Pioneer components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . 29

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

An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Clearing all stations from the RDS and EON

searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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08 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

09 Controlling the rest of your system

Setting the remote to control other components . . . . 53

Selecting preset codes directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Programming signals from other remote controls. . . 54

Erasing one of the remote control button settings. . . 55

Erasing all of the remote control presets . . . . . . . . . . 55

Direct function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Confirming preset codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Controls for TVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Controls for other components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

10 Other connections

Second Zone speaker B setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Bi-amping your front speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Bi-wiring your speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Multi-room listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Making multi-room connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the sub room controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using the i.LINK interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

About i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

About PQLS rate control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Switching components on and off using the

12 volt trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using this receiver with a Pioneer plasma display . . . 65

Using the SR+ mode with a Pioneer plasma

display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

11 Other Settings

The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

The Other Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

SR+ Setup for Pioneer plasma displays . . . . . . . . . 71

Multi Room Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

12 Volt Trigger Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

SACD Gain Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

12 Additional information

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

No sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Other audio problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

i.LINK interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

i.LINK messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Switching the speaker impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Surround sound formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Dolby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

DTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

About THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Cleaning the unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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