Pioneer VSX-529-K User Manual

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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.

Features

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Before you start

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Flow of settings on the receiver

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

01 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

02 Connecting your equipment

Placing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Hints on the speaker placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Digital audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Standard RCA video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About video outputs connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting a TV and playback components . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting optional Bluetooth

®

ADAPTER

(VSX-529 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting to the network through LAN interface . . . . . . 20

Connecting to a wireless LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting a MHL-compatible device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to the front

panel input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

03 Basic Setup

Canceling the Auto Power Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) . . 24

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup . . . 25

04 Basic playback

Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Selecting the audio input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Playing an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Playing back files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Switches between the iPod controls and the receiver

controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory

device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Playing back photo files stored on a USB memory

device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Playing a MHL-compatible device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Music playback using Bluetooth wireless technology

(VSX-824 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Remote control operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Pairing with the unit (Initial registration). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Listen to music on the unit from a Bluetooth capable

device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Radio wave caution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Scope of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Radio wave reflections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Precautions regarding connections to products

supported by this unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Bluetooth

®

ADAPTER for Wireless Enjoyment of Music

(VSX-529 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Wireless music play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Pairing the Bluetooth ADAPTER and Bluetooth wireless

technology device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth wireless

technology device with Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

An introduction to RDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Searching for RDS programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

05 Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using the Advanced surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

06 Playback with NETWORK features

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

About playable DLNA network devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using AirPlay on iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and

iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

About the DHCP server function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Authorizing this receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

About HTC Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Playback with Network functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Listening to Internet radio stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

About the Spotify audio stream playback function . . . . . . 43

Preparations (1) Installing the Spotify application

on mobile devices and registering a Spotify Premium

account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Preparations (2) Connecting this unit to the network . . . 44

In order to use the Spotify audio stream playback

function from the Spotify application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Playing back audio files stored on components on the

network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Playing back your favorite songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

The Network Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Network Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Firmware Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Network setting using Safari browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Friendly Name setting using Safari browser. . . . . . . . . . 47

Firmware update using Safari browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Factory Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

About network playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Content playable over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

About playback behavior over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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