Second Zone Speaker B Setup; Switching The Speaker System; Bi-Amping Your Front Speakers - Pioneer VSX-917V Operating Instructions Manual

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Second Zone speaker B setup

After selecting Second Zone in Surround back
speaker setting on page 35, you can use the
speakers connected to the (surround back) B
speaker terminals on the rear panel to listen to
stereo playback in another room. See
Switching the speaker system below for the
listening options with this setup.
1 Connect a pair of speakers to the
surround back speaker terminals on the rear
panel.
Connect them the same way you connected
your speakers in Connecting the speakers on
page 19. Make sure to review Hints on speaker
placement on page 20 when placing the
speakers in another room.
2 Select 'Second Zone' from the 'Surr Back
System' menu.
See Surround back speaker setting on page 35
to do this.

Switching the speaker system

If you selected Second Zone in Surround back
speaker setting on page 35, three speaker
system settings are possible using the
SPEAKERS button. If you selected Normal (SB)
or Front Bi-Amp, the speaker system is fixed
as SPA or SPAB (respectively). The options
below are for the Second Zone setting only.
• Use the SPEAKERS button on the front
panel to select a speaker system setting.
SOUND MIDNIGHT/ SB ch
RETRIEVER LOUDNESS PROCESSING
SIGNAL TUNING/
SELECT STATION
SPEAKERS
Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system
option:
Note
1 • The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in Speaker Setting on page 41. However, if SPB is selected above,
no sound is heard from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed).
• Depending on the Surround back speaker setting on page 35 output from the surround back pre-out terminals may change.
• All speaker systems (except Second Zone connections) are switched off when headphones are connected.
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TONE
TUNER
EDIT
SETUP RETURN
MULTI JOG
• SPA – Sound is output from the speakers
connected to the A speaker terminals
(multichannel playback is possible).
• SPB – Sound is output from the two
speakers connected to speaker system B
(only stereo playback is possible).
• SPAB – Sound is output from speaker
system A (up to 5 channels, depending on
the source), the two speakers in speaker
system B, and the subwoofer.
Multichannel sources (heard through
speaker system A) are downmixed for
stereo output from speaker system B.

Bi-amping your front speakers

Bi-amping is when you connect the high
frequency driver and low frequency driver of
your speakers to different amplifiers (in this
case, to both front and surround back
terminals) for better crossover performance.
Your speakers must be bi-ampable to do this
(having separate terminals for high and low)
and the sound improvement will depend on
the kind of speakers you're using.
1 Connect your speakers as shown below.
This illustration below shows the connections
for bi-amping your front left speaker. Hook up
your front right speaker in the same way.
FRONT
S R
P
E
A
A
Front left
K
speaker
E
R
S
Hi
Lo
Since both front and surround back speaker
terminals output the same audio, it doesn't
matter which set (front or surround back) is
powering which part (Hi or Low) of the
speaker.
SURROUND CENTER SURROUND BACK
L R L R L
B
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