The Outlaws’ Guide to the Marantz AV7005
Important – How To Use This Guide
Thank you for purchasing the Marantz AV7005 surround sound processor. The AV7005
is a full-featured surround sound product that offers a wide array of features such as
decoding for lossless audio formats, accurate video scaling, and automatic room
correction technology. All of these provide great improvements in audio and video
performance, increasing your enjoyment of music, television, and movies. However,
these amazing technologies carry with them an inevitable side-effect: you have to set it
all up and learn how to take advantage of the power and flexibility it offers before you
can see and hear the full benefit of all of these new wonders.
What The Outlaws’ Guide Won’t Do
There are a number of details in the AV7005 User Guide that we have not reproduced
in the Outlaws’ Guide. If you need to find out how to set tuner presets or program the
remote control to operate other devices, please refer to the AV7005 User Guide. That
guide also contains additional details on the network sources offered by the AV7005.
What The Outlaws’ Guide Will Do
That brings us to this guide. The Marantz AV7005 User Guide covers every bell,
whistle, and sprocket under the AV7005’s hood, but we felt that a supporting document
from an Outlaw perspective would benefit our customers. Our purpose here is to
provide a clear, detailed, and thorough explanation of how to connect, configure, and
operate the AV7005 so that it can look and sound its best. If you want an explanation of
what different menu settings do – not simply what settings are available – keep reading
this guide. Some of you are seasoned ’philes when it comes to setting up a home
theater. Some are veterans of the two-channel audio world, ready to make the move
into surround and home theater. Still others are entirely new to the hobby. The home
theater gurus will likely be able to fend for themselves, although we think there could
still be a few useful tidbits here for them. For many, a surround processor like the
AV7005 can be a daunting challenge for which a 128-page manual offers little
reassurance. Our goal with this guide is to provide you with a convenient reference to
help navigate the challenging path ahead. We hope that it will help you reach the end of
that road quickly and smoothly, so you can focus on enjoying this addition to your home
theater system. The other manual will remain a useful resource if you need it.
What You Will Find In The Outlaws’ Guide
We will begin with a feature list to introduce the AV7005 and then explore the process of
connecting the AV7005 to a typical home theater system. Following is a Quick Setup
Guide to help steer users through their first contact with the AV7005’s setup menus. We
will also explore the different audio formats supported by the AV7005 and the listening
modes that can be used in conjunction with them, followed by a reference (or a
“roadmap”) to the AV7005’s setup menus. We are also including a section to introduce
the different inputs offered by the AV7005, including network and USB sources. The last
sections of the guide are an assortment of “Outlaw approved” tips and tricks and a
troubleshooting checklist.
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A Brief Note on this Guide
