Pioneer VSX-519V-K: Chapter 2: 5 minute guide

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Chapter 2:

5 minute guide

Where you place the speakers will have a big

effect on the sound. Place your speakers as

Introduction to home theater

shown below for the best surround sound

Home theater refers to the use of multiple

effect. Also see Hints on speaker placement on

audio tracks to create a surround sound effect,

page 17 for more on this.

making you feel like you’re in the middle of the

action or concert. The surround sound you get

from a home theater system depends not only

on your speaker setup, but also on the source

and the sound settings of the receiver.

This receiver will automatically decode

multichannel Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby

Surround sources according to your speaker

setup. In most cases, you won’t have to make

changes for realistic surround sound, but

other possibilities (like listening to a CD with

3 Plug in and switch on the receiver,

multichannel surround sound) are explained in

followed by your BD/DVD player,

Listening to your system on page 26.

subwoofer and TV.

Make sure you’ve set the video input on your TV

Listening to Surround Sound

to this receiver. Check the manual that came

with the TV if you don’t know how to do this.

With the following quick setup guide, you should

have your system hooked up for surround sound

4 Set the connection of the speaker and the

in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply

subwoofer.

leave the receiver in the default settings.

Perform Speaker setting of Manual speaker

•Be sure to complete all connections before

setup in Using the System Setup menu on

connecting to an AC power source.

page 33.

1 Connect your TV and Blu-ray Disc player

5 Play a BD/DVD, and adjust the volume.

or DVD player.

Make sure that BD/DVD is showing in the

See

Connecting a TV and Blu-ray Disc player or

receiver’s display, indicating that the BD/DVD

DVD player

on page 9 to do this. For surround

input is selected. If it isn’t, press BD on the

sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital

remote to set the receiver to the BD/DVD input.

connection from the BD/DVD player to the receiver.

There are several other sound options you can

2 Connect your speakers and place them for

select. See Listening to your system on page 26

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optimal surround sound.

for more on this.

See also The System Setup

See Connecting the speakers on page 16.

menu on page 33 for more setup options.

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Subwoofer (SW)

Front

Right (R)

Surround

Front

Right (SR)

Left (L)

Center (C)

Listening

position

Surround

Left (SL)

1Depending on your BD/DVD player or source discs, you may only get digital 2 channel stereo and analog sound. In this case,

the listening mode must be set to STANDARD (it should already be set—see Listening in surround sound on page 26 if you

need to do this) if you want multichannel surround sound.