Pioneer VSX-LX70 User Manual

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Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Automatically setting up for surround sound
(MCACC & Full Band Phase Control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup . . . . . 9

Playing a source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Better sound using Phase Control and
Full Band Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Using Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using Full Band Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

03 Connecting your equipment

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
When making cable connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About the video converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting your TV and DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting your Blu-ray disc player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or
other set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting a DVD/HDD recorder, VCR and
other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting digital audio sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting analog audio sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting a component to the front panel inputs . . . 18
Installing your speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Placing the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
THX speaker system setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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

AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
FM wire antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
AC outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

04 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . . . . . 24

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

05 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Standard surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the Home THX modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using Front Stage Surround Advance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Selecting MCACC presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using surround back channel processing . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the Virtual Surround Back mode . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using the genre synchronizing function . . . . . . . . . . . 33

06 USB playback

Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Selecting a file from the folder/file list for playback. . . 34

Compressed audio compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

07 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Neural THX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Tuning directly to a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Saving station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Naming station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

08 The System Setup menu

Making receiver settings from
the System Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Automatic MCACC (Expert) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Surround back speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Manual MCACC setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Fine Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Standing Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Acoustic Calibration EQ Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional. . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Full Band Phase Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Speaker Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
X-Curve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
THX Audio Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate
your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.

VSX_LX60LX70.book Page 4 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 3:13 PM

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