Pioneer VSX-420-K: Chapter 4: Listening to your system Basic playback
Chapter 4: Listening to your system Basic playback: Pioneer VSX-420-K
Table of contents
- IMPORTANT
- Operating Environment
- Contents
- Flow of settings on the receiver
- Chapter 1: Before you start Checking what’s in the box Installing the receiver Loading the batteries
- Chapter 2: Controls and displays Front panel
- Operating range of remote control unit Display
- Controls and displays 02
- Remote control
- Controls and displays 02
- Controls and displays02
- Chapter 3: Connecting your equipment Placing the speakers
- Connecting the speakers
- Making cable connections
- About video outputs connection
- Connecting a TV and Blu-ray Disc player
- Connecting a TV and DVD player
- Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal
- Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR and other video components
- Connecting a satellite receiver Connecting the multichannel or other digital set-top box analog outputs
- Connecting other audio components Connecting to the front panel audio mini jack
- Connecting antennas
- Connecting an IR receiver Plugging in the receiver
- Chapter 4: Listening to your system Basic playback
- Choosing the input signal Auto playback Listening in surround sound
- Listening in stereo
- Using Front Stage Surround Using Stream Direct Advance Using the Sound Retriever
- Using Phase Control
- Setting the Audio options Setting What it does Option(s)
- Setting What it does Option(s)
- analog inputs Using the headphone
- Chapter 5: The System Setup menu Using the System Setup menu Manual speaker setup
- Channel level Crossover network
- Speaker Distance The Input Assign menu
- Chapter 6: Using the MULTI-ZONE feature MULTI-ZONE listening
- Using the MULTI-ZONE controls Button What it does
- Chapter Using the tuner Listening to the radio Saving station presets
- An introduction to RDS
- Displaying RDS information
- Chapter 8: Making recordings Making an audio or a video recording
- Chapter 9: Additional information Troubleshooting Problem Remedy
- Problem Remedy
- HDMI Symptom Remedy Resetting the main unit
- Specifications Cleaning the unit
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Chapter 4:
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Listening to your system
2 Select the input function you want to
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Important
play.
• The listening modes and many features
You can use the input function buttons on the
described in this section may not be
remote control, INPUT SELECT, or the front
available depending on the current source,
panel INPUT SELECTOR dial.
settings and status of the receiver.
If you need to manually switch the input signal
type (digital or analog audio) press SIGNAL
SEL (see Choosing the input signal on
Basic playback
page 26).
Here are the basic instructions for playing a
3Press
AUTO/DIRECT
to select ‘
AUTO
source (such as a DVD disc) with your home
SURROUND
’ and start playback of the
theater system.
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source.
If you’re playing a Dolby Digital or DTS
surround sound DVD disc, with a digital audio
connection, you should hear surround sound.
If you’re playing a stereo source or if the
connection is an analog audio connection,
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you will only hear sound from the front left/
right speakers in the default listening mode.
It is possible to check on the front panel
display whether or not surround sound
playback is being performed properly (see
Display on page 8).
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1 Switch on your system components and
If the display does not correspond to the input
receiver.
signal and listening mode, check the
Start by switching on the playback component
1
connections and settings.
(for example a DVD player), your TV
and
subwoofer (if you have one), then the receiver
4 Use the volume control to adjust the
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(press RECEIVER).
volume level.
Turn down the volume of your TV so that all
sound is coming from the speakers connected
to this receiver.
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1 Make sure that the TV’s video input is set to this receiver (for example, if you connected this receiver to the VIDEO jacks on
your TV, make sure that the VIDEO input is now selected).
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2 • You may need to check the digital audio output settings on your DVD player or digital satellite receiver. It should be set to
output Dolby Digital, DTS and 88.2 kHz / 96 kHz PCM (2 channel) audio, and if there is an MPEG audio option, set this to convert
the MPEG audio to PCM.
• Depending on your DVD player or source discs, you may only get digital 2 channel stereo and analog sound. In this case, the
receiver must be set to a multichannel listening mode if you want multichannel surround sound.
