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Simple Home Theater Guide 02
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Chapter 2:
Simple Home Theater 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 amplifier.
This amplifier 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 34.
Listening to Surround Sound
This amplifier has been designed with the easiest
possible setup in mind. However, before proceeding to
the quick setup guide given below, you have to decide the
purpose of your speaker system and hook up your system
for surround sound. After the following quick setup, you
can simply leave the amplifier in the default settings in
most cases.
• Be sure to complete all connections before
connecting this unit to an AC power source.
1 Select the speaker usage method.
See Selecting the speaker layout/usage pattern on page 9.
2 Connect your speakers and place them for optimum
surround sound.
Connect your speakers as shown in
Positioning and
connecting the speakers on page 10.
3 Connect your TV and DVD player.
See Connecting your TV and DVD player on page 20 to do
this. For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a
digital connection from the DVD player to the amplifier.
4 Plug in the amplifier 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
amplifier.
1
Make sure you’ve set the video input on your
TV to this amplifier. 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.
5 Use the on-screen Auto MCACC Setup to set up your
system.
See
Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC
& Full Band Phase Control) on page 11 for more on this.
6 Play a DVD, and adjust the volume to your liking.
Make sure that DVD/LD is showing in the amplifier’s
display, indicating that the DVD input is selected. If it
isn’t, press
DVD on the remote control to set the
amplifier to the DVD input.
In addition to the basic playback explained in Playing a
source on page 13, there are several other sound options
you can select. See
Listening to your system on page 34
for more on this.
See also Making amplifier settings from the System Setup
menu on page 40 for more setup options.
Note
1 After this amplifier 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 LCD display blinks during this process, and you can turn on this amplifier 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 91.
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