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Quick Start Guide

2 Speaker Connections

Home theater is designed to be setup with five, or seven speakers (front left & right; center; surround left &

right; and, optimally, surround back left & right) and a subwoofer but you can use this receiver with fewer

speakers. Hook up the speakers you have to the A speaker terminals on the back of the receiver. If you only

have two speakers hook them up as “FRONT“. If you have three hook up the single speaker as “CENTER“.

Follow the diagram on p.19 in order to hook up all your speakers. A center speaker is very important for

watching films because the dialog comes from the center speaker in digital soundtracks. If you do not have a

CENTER speaker you must tell the receiver the CENTER channel is OFF or when you listen to digital

soundtracks you won't hear any dialog. Use the instructions on page 33-34 in order to do this.

Follow the diagram below to hook up an additional amplifier in order to use surround back speakers. These

speakers are important to hear all the sound channels on new, eight channel home theater DVDs. The diagram

below also explains how to hook up a subwoofer which provides realistic bass sounds.

Make sure you connect the speaker on the right to the right terminal and the speaker on the left to the left

terminal. Also make sure the positive and negative (+/–) terminals on the amplifier match those on the speakers.

3 Setting up the Remote Control & Unit

1 Put the batteries in the remote control.

2 Plug the main unit into a wall outlet.

3 Press

_ ON/ — OFF button and the STANDBY/ON button on the receiver to

put the receiver in ON mode.

L (Single)

SURROUND

BACK

PRE OUT

SUB

WOOFER

Surround back

speaker (Right)

Surround back

speaker (Left)

INPUT

Powered

subwoofer

Additional Amplifier (See p.21)

INPUT

ANALOG

FRONT

SPEAKERS

RCA stereo cord

RCA audio cord

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