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Contents

Before you start

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Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Flow of settings on the receiver

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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

Determining the speakers’ application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connecting the speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Connect the surround back or front height speakers

(In case of VSX-826) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Connect the surround back or front height speakers

(In case of VSX-821) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Switching the speaker terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Analog audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Video cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

About the video converter

(VSX-826 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

About video outputs connection

(VSX-821 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting a TV and playback components . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting your DVD player with no HDMI output

(VSX-826 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting a satellite receiver or other digital

set-top box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, Blu-ray Disc

recorder and other video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the component video jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting other audio components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting optional Bluetooth

ADAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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

Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting to the front panel video terminal . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

03 Basic Setup

Canceling the demo display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC)

. . . 24

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup

. . . 25

04 Basic playback

Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Selecting the audio input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Playing an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Playing back files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Watching photos and video content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Bluetooth

ADAPTER for Wireless Enjoyment of Music

. . 29

Wireless music play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Pairing the Bluetooth ADAPTER and Bluetooth

wireless technology device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth wireless

technology device with Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

05 Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the Advanced surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Better sound using Phase Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using surround back channel processing . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting the Up Mix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Making an audio or a video recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

06 The System Setup menu

Using the System Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Crossover Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

The Speaker System setting (VSX-826 only) . . . . . . . . . . 41

The Video Parameter setting (VSX-826 only) . . . . . . . . . . 41

Video Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Pre Out Setting (VSX-821 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Auto Power Down menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The FL Demo Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

07 Control with HDMI function

Making Control with HDMI connections . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

HDMI Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Before using synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

About synchronized operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

About connections with a product of a different brand

that supports the Control with HDMI function . . . . . . 44

Cautions on the Control with HDMI function . . . . . . . . . 44

08 Controlling the rest of your system

Setting the remote to control other components . . . . . . 45

Selecting preset codes directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Clearing all the remote control settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Controls for TVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Controls for other components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Preset Code List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

09 Additional information

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Important information regarding the HDMI

connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

iPod messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

USB messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

About iPod/iPhone/iPad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Resetting the main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Cleaning the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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