Pioneer VSX-520-S: Contents

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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.

Contents

Flow of settings on the receiver

. . . 6

04 Basic Setup

Automatically setting up for surround sound

(MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

01 Before you start

Other problems when using the Auto

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

MCACC Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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

Ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

05 Listening to your system

Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

02 Controls and displays

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Advanced surround effects. . . . . 31

Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . 10

Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . . . . 32

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

03 Connecting your equipment

Better sound using Phase Control. . . . . . . . . 33

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 34

Placing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using surround back channel processing. . . 34

Hints on the speaker placement. . . . . . . . . 17

Setting the Up Mix function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Connect the surround back or front

Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

height speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the headphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

06 The System Setup menu

Analog audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Manual speaker setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Speaker setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

About video outputs connection . . . . . . . . . . 21

Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Connecting a TV and playback components

. . . 22

Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Speaker distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Connecting your component with no

The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

HDMI terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Pre Out Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, VCR

07 Using the tuner

and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . 24

Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 24

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Listening to station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Naming preset stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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08 Making recordings

Making an audio or a video recording . . . . . . 47

09 Other connections

Bluetooth® ADAPTER for Wireless

Enjoyment of Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Wireless music play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Connecting Optional Bluetooth

ADAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Pairing Bluetooth ADAPTER and

Bluetooth wireless technology device . . . . . 49

Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth

wireless technology device with Your

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

10 Additional information

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Important information regarding the

HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Resetting the main unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Cleaning the unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56