The Outlaws’ Guide to the Marantz SR5004
Marantz SR5004
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A Brief Note on this Guide
Thank you for purchasing the Marantz SR5004 surround sound receiver. The SR5004 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.
That brings us to this guide. The Marantz SR5004 User Manual covers every bell,
whistle, and sprocket under the SR5004’s hood, but we felt that a supporting document
from an Outlaw perspective would benefit our customers. 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 receiver like the SR5004 can be a daunting challenge for which a
96-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.
We will begin with a feature list to introduce the SR5004 and then explore the process
of connecting the SR5004 to a typical home theater system. Following is a Quick Setup
Guide to help steer users through their first contact with the SR5004’s setup menus. We
will also explore the different audio formats supported by the SR5004 and the listening
modes that can be used in conjunction with them, followed by a reference (or a
“roadmap”) to the SR5004’s setup menus. The last sections of the guide are an
assortment of “Outlaw approved” tips and tricks and a troubleshooting checklist.
