PIONEER VSX-C501-S/FLXU Owner's Manual

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AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL
RECEIVER
VSX-C501-S
Operating Instructions
vsx-c501(FL).book 1
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AUDIO/VIDEO MULTI-CHANNEL
RECEIVER
VSX-C501-S
Operating Instructions
vsx-c501(FL).book 1
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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.
In some countries or regions, the shape of the power plug
may sometimes differ from that shown in the explanatory
drawings.
However, the method of con-necting and
operating the unit is the same.
Operating Environment
Operating environment temperature and humidity:
+5
°C ­ +35°C (+41°F ­ +95°F); less than 85% RH
(cooling vents not blocked).
Do not install in the following locations:
· Location exposed to direct sunlight or strong
artificial light
· Location exposed to high humidity, or poorly
ventilated location
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VENTILATION: When installing this unit, make sure to leave space around the unit for ventilation to
improve heat radiation (at least 20 cm at top, 50 cm at rear, and 10 cm at each side).
WARNING: Slot and openings in the cabinet are provided for ventilation and to ensure reliable operation of
the product and to protect it from overheating, to prevent fire hazard, the openings should never be blocked and
covered with items, such as newspapers, tablecloths, curtains, etc. Also do not put the apparatus on the thick
carpet, bed, sofa, or fabric having a thick pile.
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CAUTION:
THE
STANDBY/ON
BUT TON
IS
SECONDARY
CONNECTED AND THEREFORE DOES NOT SEPARATE
THE
UNIT
FROM
MAINS
POWER
IN
STANDBY
POSITION. THEREFORE INSTALL THE UNIT SUITABLE
PLACES EASY TO DISCONNECT THE MAINS PLUG IN
CASE OF THE ACCIDENT. THE MAINS PLUG OF UNIT
SHOULD BE UNPLUGGED FROM THE WALL SOCKET
WHEN LEFT UNUSED FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
H017BEn
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.
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NOTE: THE NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS COMPARTMENT WARNING IS LOCATED ON THE APPLIANCE BONNET
TWO VOLTAGE SELECTOR SWITCHES
(multi-voltage model only)
Only multi-voltage model is provided with these
switches. Mains voltages in Saudi Arabia are 127 V
and 220 V only. Never use this model with the 110 V
setting in Saudi Arabia.
The line voltage selector switches are on the rear panel.
Check that they are set properly before plugging the
power cord into the household wall socket. If the voltage
is not properly set or if you move to an area where the
voltage requirements differ, adjust the selector switches
as follows.
1. Use a medium-size screwdriver.
2. First, insert the screwdriver in the groove of the
voltage selector at the right, and adjust so that the
tip of the groove points to the voltage value of your
area.
3. Next, insert the screwdriver in the groove of the
voltage selector at the left and adjust until the
voltage is the same as at the right.
CAUTION 220 -230 V
Power source voltage is factory adjusted 220-230 volts. If your
area is different, change voltage selectors settings.
TWO VOLTAGE SELECTORS
110V
220 -230V
240V
110V
120 -127V
220 -230V
240V
120-127V
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Before you start
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Before you start
Checking the supplied accessories
Please check that you've received the following supplied
accessories:
Loading the batteries
The remote control operates on two AA batteries
(supplied).
Caution
· Incorrect use of batteries may result in such hazards
as leakage and bursting. Observe the following
precautions:
· Never use new and old batteries together.
· Insert the plus and minus sides of the batteries
properly according to the marks in the battery case.
· Batteries of the same shape may have different
voltages. Do not use different batteries together.
· When disposing of used batteries, please comply
with governmental regulations or environmental
public institution's rules that apply in your country or
area.
Ventilation
· When installing this unit, make sure to leave space
around the unit for ventilation to improve heat
dispersal (at least 20 cm at the top, 50 cm at the rear,
and 10 cm at each side). If not enough space is
provided between the unit and walls or other
equipment, heat will build up inside, interfering with
performance and/or causing malfunctions. See
below for exceptions to this.
· Don't place anything on top of the receiver except for
a Pioneer DV-667A, 466, 366, 266 or 566K DVD player.
If you do place one of these pieces of equipment on
top of the receiver be sure to leave the ventilation
space over it as prescribed above.
· If using a rack to hold the receiver make sure the
back of the rack and the left side are open.
· Also, if you're using a case with doors, leave the
doors open when using the receiver.
· Do not place on a thick carpet, bed, sofa or fabric
having a thick pile. Do not cover the receiver with
fabric or other covering. Anything that blocks
ventilation will cause the internal temperature to rise,
which may lead to breakdown or fire hazard.
· The receiver may become hot while in use, please
take care around it.
Maintenance of external surfaces
· Use a polishing cloth or dry cloth to wipe off dust and
dirt.
· When the surfaces are dirty, wipe with a soft cloth
dipped in some neutral cleanser diluted five or six
times with water, and wrung out well, and then wipe
again with a dry cloth. Do not use furniture wax or
cleansers.
· Never use thinners, benzine, insecticide sprays or
other chemicals on or near this unit, since these will
corrode the surfaces.
· Microphone
· SR+ mini-plug cable
· Microphone stand
· FM wire antenna
· Power cable x 2
· Dry cell batteries (AA
Size / IEC R6P) (x 2)
· Remote control unit
· Operating instructions x 2
· AM loop antenna
· Speaker cable labels
1
2
3
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Contents
Before you start
Checking the supplied accessories
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Loading the batteries
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ventilation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Maintenance of external surfaces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
01 Quick start guide
Introduction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Easy Setup
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Connecting speakers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Connecting your TV and DVD player
. . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Switching on and playing a DVD
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
02 Introductory information
Introduction to home theater
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
03 Connecting your equipment
Rear panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the receiver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
When making cable connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Connecting a DVD player
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Connecting your TV
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other set-top
box
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Connecting a VCR or DVD recorder
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting other video components
. . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting equipment to the front panel inputs
. . . 15
Installing your speaker system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting the speakers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Placing the speakers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting antennas
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
AM loop antenna
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
FM wire antenna
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting external antennas
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Using this receiver with a Pioneer plasma display
. . 18
Operating other Pioneer components with this unit's
sensor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Plugging in the receiver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
04 Controls and displays
Front panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Display
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Remote control
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Operating range of the remote control
. . . . . . . . . 23
05 Getting started
Automatically calibrating your listening area
(MCACC)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
MCACC error messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Other problems when using MCACC
. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Checking the settings on your DVD (or other)
player
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Playing a source
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
06 Home theater sound
Playing multichannel sources
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Playing stereo sources
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Listening with headphones
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the Advanced Surround effects
. . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the Sound Modes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Enhancing dialog
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the surround back channel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Listening with virtual surround back speakers
. . . . 29
07 Using the tuner
Setting the channel step
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Finding a station
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tuning directly to a station
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
MPX mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Memorizing station presets
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Naming station presets
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Listening to memorized station presets
. . . . . . . . . 31
08 Using other functions
Selecting the input signal type
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the sleep timer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the SR+ mode with a Pioneer plasma
display
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Resetting the system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Default receiver settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
09 The System Setup menu
Making receiver settings from the System Setup
menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setup menu options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SR+ mode for Pioneer plasma displays
. . . . . . . . 36
Setting individual channel levels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
10 Controlling other equipment
Using the remote control with other components
. . 38
Recalling preset codes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Remote Direct function
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Multi Operation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
System Off function
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Resetting all remote control settings
. . . . . . . . . . . 40
Preset code list
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
VCR / DVD / LD player and DVD recorder
controls
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Cable TV / satellite TV / digital TV / TV controls
. . . . 43
11 Additional information
Troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Surround sound formats
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Dolby Digital
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Dolby Digital Surround EX
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Dolby Pro Logic II and Dolby Surround
. . . . . . . . . 48
DTS Digital Surround
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
DTS-ES
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
DTS Neo:6
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
DTS 96/24
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Specifications
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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Quick start guide
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Chapter 1
Quick start guide
Introduction
This `Quick start guide' shows you how to connect your
speakers, TV and DVD player to this receiver, and also
takes you through switching on and playing a DVD disc.
Easy Setup
This section shows you how to connect your speakers,
subwoofer, DVD player and TV to this receiver so you can
start enjoying home cinema sound right away.
Before you start, make sure everything you're connecting
is switched off and unplugged.
Connecting speakers
This receiver has speaker terminals for front left and right
speakers (
L and R in the diagram), a center speaker (C),
two surround speakers (
RS and LS) and a surround back
speaker (
SB). The minimum speaker configuration is just
the front left/right speakers, but we recommend
connecting all six if possible. Note that surround
speakers should always be connected as a pair; do not
connect just one surround speaker. All the speakers you
use should have a nominal impedance between 6­16.
1
Connect your speakers to the receiver, as shown
in the diagram below.
Prepare the speaker cable by stripping about 1 cm of the
plastic shielding from each speaker wire.
Connect the front speakers to the
FRONT L/R terminals;
the center speaker to the
CENTER terminals; the
surround speakers to the
SURROUND L/R terminals; and
the surround back speaker to the
SURROUND BACK
terminals.
Press on a tab to open a terminal; insert the exposed
wire, then release the tab to secure.
For correct sound it's important that the positive and
negative terminals of the receiver and each speaker are
matched. To help you do this, attach the supplied colored
self-adhesive labels to one half of each speaker cable.
2
Connect a powered subwoofer to the
SUBWOOFER OUT jack, as shown in the diagram
below.
Use a standard audio cable with RCA/phono plugs.
COAX
AC IN
IN
FRONT
L
R
DVD
MONITOR
OUT
FMUNBAL75
AM LOOP
ANTENNA
SUB
WOOFER
OUT
TV/SAT
(DVD)
OPT1
DVR/VCR
OPT2
DVD
(TV/SAT)
IN
VIDEO
IN
VIDEO
L
R
TV/SAT
IN
DVR/VCR
OUT
L
R
DIGITAL IN
TWO VOLTAGE SELECTORS
110V
120 -127V
220 -230V
240V
110V
220 -230V
240V
120-127V
SUB WOOFER
CENTER
SURROUND
CONTROL
AUDIO IN (5.1CH)
IN
OUT
SPEAKERS
FRONT
SURROUND
R
CENTER
SURROUND
BACK
LR
L
+
­
AUDIO
LINE LEVEL
INPUT
VSX-C501
RL
C
RS
LS
SB
SW
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