Pioneer VSX-516-S/-K manual

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For T aiwan exclusively T aiwanese two pin flat-bladed plug VENTILA TION CAUTION When installing this unit, make sure to leave space around the unit for ventilation to improve heat radiation (at least 40 cm at top, 10 cm at rear , and 20 cm at each side). W ARNING Slots and openings in the cabinet are provided for ventilation to ensure reliable ope[...]

Contents 01 Before you start Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . 5 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 02 5 minute guide Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Listen[...]

Before you start 01 5 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Chapter 1: Before you start Checking what’s in the box Please check that you've received the following supplied accessories: • AM loop antenna • FM wire antenna • AA size IEC R6 dry cell batteries (to confirm system operation) x2 • Remote control • Setu[...]

Before you start 01 6 En Installing the receiver • When installing this unit, make sure to put it on a level and stable surface. Don’t install it on the following places: – on a color TV (the screen may distort) – near a cassette deck (or close to a device that gives off a magnetic field). This may interfere with the sound. – in direct su[...]

5 minute guide 02 7 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Chapter 2: 5 minute 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[...]

5 minute guide 02 8 En Using the Quick Setup You can use the Quick Setup to get your system up and running with just a few button presses. The receiver automatically makes the necessary settings after you have selected your speaker setup, room size and listening position. • VSX-516 model only – For a more complete surround setup, see Automatica[...]

Quick surround sound setup 03 9 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Chapter 3: Quick surround sound setup VSX-516 model only Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) The Auto Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration (MCACC) setup measures the acoustic characteristics of your listening area, taking into account ambient noi[...]

Quick surround sound setup 03 10 En If you see an ERR message in the display, there may be a problem with your mic or the speaker connections. Turn off the power, and check the problem indicated by the ERR message (see below), then try the auto surround setup again. • ERR MIC – Check microphone connection. • ERR Fch – Check front speaker co[...]

Connecting up 04 11 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Chapter 4: Connecting up Making cable connections Make sure not to bend the cables over the top of this unit (as shown in the illustration). If this happens, the magnetic field produced by the transformers in this unit may cause a humming noise from the speakers. Importan[...]

Connecting up 04 12 En Connecting a TV and DVD player This page shows you how to connect your DVD player and TV to the receiver. 1 Connect a coaxial digital audio output on your DVD player to the DIGITAL COAX 1 (DVD/LD) input on this receiver. Use a coaxial digital audio cable for the connection. 1 2 Connect the composite video output and the stere[...]

Connecting up 04 13 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Connecting the multichannel analog outputs For DVD Audio and SACD playback, your DVD player may have 5.1 channel analog outputs.In this case, you can connect them to the multi- channel inputs of the receiver as shown below. 1 Connecting a satellite receiver or other digit[...]

Connecting up 04 14 En Connecting other audio components The number and kind of connections depends on the kind of component you’re connecting. 1 Follow the steps below to connect a CD-R, MD, DAT, tape recorder or other audio component. 1 If your component has a digital output, connect this to a digital input on the receiver. The example shows an[...]

Connecting up 04 15 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Microsoft, Windows Media ® , and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Connecting other video components This receiver has audio/video inputs and outputs suitable for connecting ana[...]

Connecting up 04 16 En Connecting antennas Connect the AM loop antenna and the FM wire antenna as shown below. To improve reception and sound quality, connect external antennas (see Using external antennas below). 1 Pull off the protective shields of both AM antenna wires. 2 Push open the tabs, then insert one wire fully into each terminal, then re[...]

Connecting up 04 17 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Connecting the speakers A complete speaker setup is shown below, but everyone’s home setup will vary. Simply connect the speakers you have in the manner illustrated. The receiver will work with just two stereo speakers (the front speakers in the diagram) but using at le[...]

Connecting up 04 18 En VSX-416 model 1 Twist exposed wire strands together. 2 Push open the tabs and insert exposed wire. 3 Release the tabs. VSX-516 model 1 Twist exposed wire strands together. 2 Loosen terminal and insert exposed wire. 3 Tighten terminal. Speaker terminals Make sure that all the bare speaker wire is twisted together and inserted [...]

Connecting up 04 19 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Speaker placement diagrams The following illustrations show a 6.1 channel speaker setup. 1 3-D view of 6.1 channel speaker setup Overhead view of speaker setup Extra Power mode speaker setup VSX-416 model only – S ee Using the Advanced surround effects on page 29 to swi[...]

Controls and displays 05 20 En Chapter 5: Controls and displays Front panel Illustration shows the VSX-516 model 1 Input select buttons Selects an input source. 2 Character display See Display on page 21. 3 MCACC indicator (VSX-516 model only) Lights when Acoustic Calibration EQ (page 30) is on (Acoustic Calibration EQ is automatically set to ALL C[...]

Controls and displays 05 21 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español 10 DIALOGUE ENHANCEMENT (VSX-416 model only) Use to make dialog stand out when watching TV or a movie (page 33). 11 MCACC SETUP MIC jack (VSX-516 model only) Use to connect the supplied microphone. 12 MASTER VOLUME 13 LISTENING MODE buttons STANDARD Press for Stan[...]

Controls and displays 05 22 En 1 SIGNAL SELECT indicators Lights to indicate the type of input signal assigned for the current component: AUTO Lights when AUTO signal select is on. SB (VSX-516 model only) Depending on the source, this lights when a signal with surround back channel encoding is detected. DIGITAL Lights when a digital audio signal is[...]

Controls and displays 05 23 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español 21 Master volume level 22 MCACC channel EQ indicators (VSX-516 model only) These indicators show the EQ balance for each channel in Checking your Acoustic Calibration EQ settings on page 37. Remote control (VSX-516) 1 INPUT SELECT Use to select the input source (u[...]

Controls and displays 05 24 En SLEEP Press to change the amount of time before the receiver switches into standby ( 30 min – 60 min – 90 min – Off ). You can check the remaining sleep time at any time by pressing SLEEP once. S. RETRIEVER* Press to restore CD quality sound to compressed audio sources (page 33). MUTE Mutes/unmutes the sound. DI[...]

Controls and displays 05 25 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español HDD/DVD* These buttons switch between the hard disk and DVD controls for DVD/HDD recorders. REC STOP* Stops recording. 8 Number buttons and other component controls Use the number buttons to directly select a radio frequency (page 41) or the tracks on a CD, DVD, e[...]

Controls and displays 05 26 En Remote control (VSX-416) 1 RECEIVER  Switches the receiver between standby and on. 2 Listening mode buttons STANDARD Press for Standard decoding and to switch between 2 Pro Logic II. ADV.SURR Switches between the various surround modes (page 29). STEREO Switches between direct and stereo playback (page 30). Also se[...]

Controls and displays 05 27 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español DIMMER Dims or brightens the display. ANALOG ATT Attenuates (lowers) the level of an analog input signal to prevent distortion. 8 INPUT SELECTOR buttons Press to select an input source. DVD/DVR Press to use the remote DVD/DVR controls. RECEIVER Use to switch to th[...]

Listening to your system 06 28 En Chapter 6: Listening to your system Important • Certain features explained in this section will not be possible depending on the source (for example, PCM 88.2 kHz / 96 kHz, DTS 96 kHz (24 bit) or WMA 9 Pro sources). Auto playback The simplest, most direct listening option is the Auto Surround feature. With this, [...]

Listening to your system 06 29 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español VSX-516 model: • 2 Pro Logic IIx MOVIE – Up to 6.1 channel sound, especially suited to movie sources • 2 Pro Logic IIx MUSIC – Up to 6.1 channel sound, especially suited to music sources • 2 Pro Logic IIx GAME – Up to 6.1 channel sound, especially s[...]

Listening to your system 06 30 En 3 Press EFFECT/CH SEL again to adjust other settings . Listening in stereo When you select STEREO or DIRECT , you will hear the source through just the front left and right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer depending on your speaker settings). Dolby Digital, DTS and WMA9 Pro multi- channel sources are downmixed[...]

Listening to your system 06 31 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español • While listening to a source, press ACOUSTIC EQ. Press repeatedly to select between: • ALL CH – No special weighting is given to any one channel. • F. ALIGN – All speakers are heard in accordance with the front speaker settings. • CUSTOM 1/2 – Cu[...]

Listening to your system 06 32 En Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB) When you’re not using surround back speaker, selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround back channel through your surround speakers. You can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information, or if the material sounds better in the format (for e[...]

Listening to your system 06 33 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Using Midnight and Loudness These features give you good sound at low volume levels when listening to movie (Midnight) or music (Loudness) sources. • Press MIDNIGHT/LOUDNESS to switch between MIDNIGHT, LOUDNESS, and OFF. Enhancing dialog • Default setting: [...]

The System Setup menu 07 34 En Chapter 7: The System Setup menu Using the System Setup menu The following section shows you how to make detailed settings to specify how you’re using the receiver. It also explains how to fine-tune individual speaker system settings. Above: VSX-416 (left) and VSX-516 (right) 1 Press RECEIVER on the remote control, [...]

The System Setup menu 07 35 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español • CH LEVEL – Make fine adjustments to the overall balance of your speaker system (see Fine Channel Level below). • SP DISTN. – Make precise delay settings for your speaker system (see Fine Speaker Distance below). The last five settings are specifically fo[...]

The System Setup menu 07 36 En Listen to the reference speaker and use it to measure the target channel. From the listening position, face the two speakers with your arms outstretched pointing at each speaker. Try to make the two tones sound as if they are arriving simultaneously at a position slightly in front of you and between your arm span. Whe[...]

The System Setup menu 07 37 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español 2 Use / to select C1 or C2 then use the / buttons to select the setting you want to copy. • You can also copy from one custom setting to another. For more on the A. CH and F.ALG settings, see Setting the Acoustic Calibration EQ automatically above. 3[...]

The System Setup menu 07 38 En 3 Use / to select the channel you want, using / to check the settings. The MCACC channel EQ indicators in the front panel display will light accordingly. 4 When you're finished, press RETURN. You will return to the Manual MCACC setup menu. Manual speaker setup These settings optimize surround sound pe[...]

The System Setup menu 07 39 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español come out the front and center speakers are also routed to the subwoofer). 1 If you did not connect a subwoofer choose NO (the bass is output from other speakers). Crossover network • Default setting: 100Hz This setting decides the cutoff between bass sounds play[...]

The System Setup menu 07 40 En You only need to do this if you didn’t connect your digital components according to the defaults above. This tells the receiver what component is connected to which terminal so it corresponds to the buttons on the remote. 1 Select ‘IN ASSIG.’ from the System Setup menu. 2 Use / to select ‘DIG.IN’ then [...]

Using the tuner 08 41 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Chapter 8: Using the tuner Listening to the radio The following steps show you how to tune in to FM and AM radio broadcasts and memorize the frequency for recall later. 1 Press AM or FM to select the tuner band. 2 Tune to a station. There are three ways to do this: Auto[...]

Using the tuner 08 42 En 2 Press ‘T.EDIT’ (VSX-516 model) / (SHIFT +) TUNER EDIT (VSX-416 model). A cursor appears at the first character position. 3 Input the name you want then press ENTER. Names can be up to four characters long. • Use the MULTI JOG dial (front panel) or the ST +/– (VSX-516 model) / STATION +/– (VSX- 416 model) buttons[...]

Making recordings 09 43 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Chapter 9: Making recordings Making an audio or a video recording You can make an audio or a video recording from the built-in tuner, or from an audio or video source connected to the receiver (such as a CD player or TV). Keep in mind you can’t make a digital record[...]

Controlling the rest of your system 10 44 En Chapter 10: Controlling the rest of your system VSX-516 model only Setting the remote to control other components Most components can be assigned to one of the MULTI CONTROL buttons using the component’s manufacturer preset code stored in the remote. However, please note that there are cases where only[...]

Controlling the rest of your system 10 45 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Direct function • Default setting: ON You can use the direct function feature to control one component using the remote control while at the same time, using your receiver to playback a different component. This could let you, for example, use the [...]

Controlling the rest of your system 10 46 En Controls for TVs This remote control can control components after entering the proper codes or teaching the receiver the commands (see Setting the remote to control other components on page 44 for more on this). Use the MULTI CONTROL buttons to select the component. • The TV CONTROL buttons on the remo[...]

Controlling the rest of your system 10 47 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Controls for other components This remote control can control these components after entering the proper codes or teaching the receiver the commands (see Setting the remote to control other components on page 44 for more on this). Use the MULTI CONTR[...]

Controlling the rest of your system 10 48 En REC STOP ( SHIFT+  ) Stops recording. DVR player Number buttons Directly access tracks on a program source. CD/MD/CD-R/VCR/LD player Use the number buttons to navigate the on-screen display . DVD/DVR player +10 button Selects tracks higher than 10. (F or example, press +10 then 3 to select track 13.) [...]

Controlling the rest of your system 10 49 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Preset Code List You should have no problem controlling a component if you find the manufacturer in this list, but please note that there are cases where codes for the manufacturer in the list will not work for the model that you are using. There are[...]

Additional information 11 50 En Chapter 11: Additional information Troubleshooting Incorrect operations are often mistaken for trouble and malfunctions. If you think that there is something wrong with this component, check the points below. Sometimes the trouble may lie in another component. Investigate the other components and electrical appliance[...]

Additional information 11 51 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español No sound from surround or center speakers. • Connect the speakers properly (refer to page 17). • Refer to Speaker setting on page 38 to check the speaker settings. • Refer to Channel level on page 39 to check the speaker levels. No sound from surround back [...]

Additional information 11 52 En Resetting the main unit Use this procedure to reset all the receiver’s settings to the factory default. Use the front panel controls to do this. 1 Switch the receiver into standby. 2 While holding down the TONE button, press and hold the  STANDBY/ON button for about three seconds. 3 When you see RESET? appear in[...]

Additional information 11 53 En English Français Deutsch Nederlands Italiano Español Specifications Amplifier section • Continuous power output (stereo) Front . . . . . . . 100 W (DIN 1 kHz, THD 1.0 %, 8 Ω ) • Maximum Power output (surround) Front . . . . . . 130 W per channel (1 kHz, THD 10 %, 8 Ω ) Center . . . . . . . . . . 130 W (1 kH[...]

Additional information 11 54 En Dimensions VSX-416 . . . . . . . 420 (W) mm x 158 (H) mm x 348 (D) mm VSX-516 . . . . . 420 (W) mm x 158 (H) mm x 352.5 (D) mm Weight (without package) VSX-416 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 kg VSX-516 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 kg Furnished Parts VSX-[...]

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