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Chapter 2:

5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater

Home theater refers to the use of multiple
audio tracks to create a surround sound effect,
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
multichannel surround sound) are explained in

Listening to your system

on page 28.

Listening to Surround Sound

With the following quick setup guide, you
should have your system hooked up for
surround sound in no time at all. In most
cases, you can simply leave the receiver in the
default settings.

• Be sure to complete all connections before

connecting to an AC power source.

1

Connect your DVD player and TV.

See

Connecting a DVD player and TV

on page 13

to do this. For surround sound, you’ll want to
hook up using a digital connection from the
DVD player to the receiver.

2

Connect your speakers and place them for

optimal surround sound.

See

Connecting the speakers

on page 19.

Where you place the speakers will have a big
effect on the sound. Place your speakers as
shown below for the best surround sound
effect. Also see

Hints on speaker placement

on

page 20 for more on this.

3

Plug in and switch on the receiver, followed

by your DVD player, subwoofer and TV.

Make sure you’ve set the video input on your TV
to this receiver. Check the manual that came
with the TV if you don’t know how to do this.

4

Press QUICK SETUP on the front panel to

specify your speaker setup, room size and
listening position.

Use the

MULTI JOG

dial to select and

ENTER

to confirm your selection. See

Using the Quick

Setup

below for more on this.

5

Play a DVD, and adjust the volume.

Make sure that

DVD

is showing in the

receiver’s display. If it isn’t, press

DVD

on the

remote to set the receiver to the DVD input.

1

There are several other sound options you can
select. See

Listening to your system

on page 28

for more on this.

2

Note

1 You may need to set your DVD player to output Dolby Digital, DTS and 88.2/96kHz PCM (2 channel) audio (see your DVD play-
er’s manual for more on this).
2 Depending on your DVD player or source disc, you may only get 2 channel sound. In this case, the listening mode must be set
to

STANDARD

(see

Listening in surround sound

on page 28 if you need to do this) if you want multichannel surround sound.

Front

speaker

(L)

Surround
speaker (LS)

Surround
speaker (RS)

Surround back
speaker (SBL)

Surround
back
speaker (SBR)

Center
speaker
(C)

Subwoofer (SW)

Listening
position

Front
speaker
(R)

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