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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 29.
Listening to Surround Sound
This receiver was designed with the easiest possible
setup in mind, so 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 this receiver to an AC power source.
1
Connect your TV and DVD player.
See
Connecting your TV and DVD player
on page 16 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.
Connect your speakers as shown in
Installing your
speaker system
on page 20.
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
Placing the speakers
on
page 21 for more on this.
3
Plug in the receiver and switch it on, followed by
your DVD player, your subwoofer and the TV.
Plug the power cable into the AC outlet and switch on the
receiver.
1
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.
• Set the subwoofer volume to a comfortable level.
4
Use the on-screen automatic MCACC setup to set up
your system.
See
Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto
MCACC)
on page 9 for more on this.
5
Play a DVD, and adjust the volume to your liking.
Make sure that
DVD
is showing in the receiver’s display,
indicating that the DVD input is selected. If it isn’t, press
DVD
on the remote control to set the receiver to the DVD
input.
In addition to the basic playback explained in
Playing a
source
on page 10, there are several other sound options
you can select. See
Listening to your system
on page 29
for more on this.
See also
Making receiver settings from the System Setup
menu
on page 38 for more setup options.
Note
1 After this receiver is connected to an AC outlet, a 15-second HDMI initialization process begins. You cannot carry out any operations during this process.
The
HDMI
indicator in the front panel display blinks during this process, and you can turn on this receiver once it has stopped blinking. When you set the
HDMI Control
mode to
OFF
, you can skip this process. For details about the HDMI Control feature, see
HDMI Control
on page 63.
Center (
C
)
Front
Right (
R
)
Surround
Right (
SR
)
Surround
Back Right (
SBR
)
Surround Back Left (
SBL
)
Surround
Left (
SL
)
Listening
position
Front
Left (
L
)
Subwoofer (
SW
)
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