Other connections
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Chapter 10:
Other connections
VSX-817 model only
Caution
•
Before making or changing the connections
,
switch off the power and disconnect the
power cord from the power outlet.
Plugging in components should be the last
connection you make with your system.
• Do not allow any contact between speaker
wires from different terminals.
• You can use speakers with a nominal
impedance between 6
Ω
to 16
Ω
(please
see
Switching the speaker impedance
on
page 60 if you plan to use speakers with an
impedance of less than 8
Ω
).
Second Zone speaker B setup
After selecting
SB 2ND Z
in
Surround back
speaker setting
on page 39, you can use the
speakers connected to the (surround back) B
speaker terminals on the rear panel to listen to
stereo playback in another room. See
Switching the speaker system
below for the
listening options with this setup.
1
Connect a pair of speakers to the
surround back speaker terminals on the rear
panel.
Connect them the same way you connected
your speakers in
Connecting the speakers
on
page 19. Make sure to review
Hints on speaker
placement
on page 20 when placing the
speakers in another room.
2
Select ‘
SB 2ND Z’
from the ‘
SB.SYSTEM’
menu.
See
Surround back speaker setting
on page 39
to do this.
Switching the speaker system
If you selected
SB 2ND Z
in
Surround back
speaker setting
on page 39, three speaker
system settings are possible using the
SPEAKERS
button. If you selected
SB NORM.
or
SB BIAMP
, the speaker system is fixed as
SP
A
or
SP
AB
(respectively). The options
below are for the
SB 2ND Z
setting only.
1
•
Use the SPEAKERS button on the front
panel to select a speaker system setting.
Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system
option:
•
SP
A
– Sound is output from the speakers
connected to the A speaker terminals
(multichannel playback is possible).
•
SP
B
– Sound is output from the two
speakers connected to speaker system B
(only stereo playback is possible).
•
SP
AB
– Sound is output from speaker
system A (up to 5 channels, depending on
the source), the two speakers in speaker
system B, and the subwoofer.
Multichannel sources (heard through
speaker system A) are downmixed for
stereo output from speaker system B.
Note
1 • The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in
Speaker setting
on page 43. However, if
SP
B
is selected above,
no sound is heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed).
• Depending on the
Surround back speaker setting
on page 39 output from the surround back pre-out terminals may change.
• All speaker systems (except
SB 2ND Z
connections) are switched off when headphones are connected.
MIDNIGHT/
LOUDNESS
SB ch
PROCESSING
SOUND
RETRIEVER
TUNING/
STATION
SETUP
RETURN
TONE
TUNER
EDIT
SIGNAL
SELECT
SPEAKERS
MULTI JOG
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