Pioneer VSX-521 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. After you
have finished reading the instructions, put them away in a safe place for future reference.

Contents

Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Checking what’s in the box

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing the receiver

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Flow of settings on the receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

01 Controls and displays

Front panel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Display

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Remote control

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

Loading the batteries

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Operating range of remote control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

02 Connecting your equipment

Placing the speakers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hints on the speaker placement

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connecting the speakers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Connect the surround back or front height speakers

. . . 11

Making cable connections

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

HDMI cables

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

About HDMI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Analog audio cables

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Digital audio cables

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Video cables

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About video outputs connection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting a TV and playback components

. . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting using HDMI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal

. . . 15

Connecting a satellite receiver or other digital
set-top box

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, Blu-ray Disc
recorder and other video sources

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using the component video jacks

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting other audio components

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting optional Bluetooth

®

ADAPTER

. . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting antennas

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using external antennas

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting to the front panel audio mini jack

. . . . . . . . . 18

Plugging in the receiver

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

03 Basic Setup

Canceling the demo display

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC)

. . . 19

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup

. . . 20

04 Basic playback

Playing a source

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Selecting the audio input signal

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Bluetooth

®

ADAPTER for Wireless Enjoyment

of Music

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Wireless music play

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Pairing the Bluetooth ADAPTER and

Bluetooth

wireless

technology device

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth wireless
technology device with Your System

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Listening to the radio

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Improving FM sound

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Saving station presets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Listening to station presets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Naming preset stations

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

An introduction to RDS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Searching for RDS programs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Displaying RDS information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

05 Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Auto playback

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Listening in surround sound

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using the Advanced surround

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using Stream Direct

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using the Sound Retriever

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Better sound using Phase Control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Using surround back channel processing

. . . . . . . . . . . 28

Setting the Up Mix function

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Setting the Audio options

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Making an audio or a video recording

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

06 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Manual speaker setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Speaker Setting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Crossover Network

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Channel Level

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Speaker Distance

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The Input Assign menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The Pre Out Setting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The Auto Power Down menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The FL Demo Mode menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

07 Control with HDMI function

Making Control with HDMI connections

. . . . . . . . . . . . 35

HDMI Setup

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Before using synchronization

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

About synchronized operations

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

About connections with a product of a different brand
that supports the Control with HDMI function

. . . . . . 36

Cautions on the Control with HDMI function

. . . . . . . . . 36

08 Additional information

Troubleshooting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

General

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

HDMI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Important information regarding the HDMI
connection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Resetting the main unit

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Cleaning the unit

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Specifications

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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