01 before you start, Introduction to home theater, Checking what’s in the box – Pioneer 915 User Manual
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Chapter 1:
Before you start
Introduction to home theater
You are probably used to using stereo 
equipment to listen to music, but may not be 
used to home theater systems that give you 
many more options (such as surround sound) 
when listening to soundtracks.
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 the speakers you have set up in your room, 
but also on the source and the sound settings 
of the receiver.
DVD-Video has become the basic source 
material for home theater due to its size, 
quality, and ease of use. Depending on the 
DVD, you can have up to seven different audio 
tracks coming from one disc, all of them being 
sent to different speakers in your system. This 
is what creates a surround sound effect and 
gives you the feeling of ‘being there’.
This receiver will automatically decode Dolby 
Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround DVD-Video 
discs, 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.
Checking what’s in the box
Please check that you've received the following 
supplied accessories:
• Setup microphone
• Remote control unit
• Dry cell batteries (AA size IEC R6) x2
• AM loop antenna
• FM wire antenna
• Warranty card
• These operating instructions
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