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Getting Started WARNING Precautions To prevent fire or shock On safety hazard, do not expose • Should any solid object or liquid fall into the cabinet, unplug the receiver the unit to rain or and have it checked by qualified moisture. personnel before operating it any further. To avoid electrical shock, do not open the cabinet. Refer servicing to qualified On power sources personnel only. • Before operating the receiver, check that the operating voltage is identical Do not install the appliance
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Getting Started TABLE OF CONTENTS About This Manual This instructions in this manual is for model STR-DE435. Check your model Getting Started number by looking at the upper right Unpacking 4 corner of the front panel. Hookup Overview 4 Aerial Hookups 5 Conventions Audio Component Hookups 5 The instructions in this manual describe Video Component Hookups 6 the controls on the receiver. You can Speaker System Hookups 7 also use the controls on the remote if AC Hookups 9 they have the same or simil
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Getting Started Unpacking Hookup Overview The receiver allows you to connect and control the Check that you received the following items with the following audio/video components. Follow the receiver: hookup procedures for the components that you want • FM wire aerial (1) to connect to the receiver on the pages specified. To • AM loop aerial (1) learn the locations and names of each jack, see “Rear • Remote commander (remote) (1) Panel Descriptions” on page 31. • Operating instruction for rem
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Getting Started Connecting a ground wire Aerial Hookups If you connect the receiver to an outdoor aerial, ground it against lightning as shown in the illustration in the left column. To prevent a gas explosion, do not connect Overview the ground wire to a gas pipe. This section describes how to connect AM and FM aerials to the receiver. If you want to receive radio Where do I go next? broadcasts with the receiver, complete these If you want to connect other components, go on to the next connecti
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Getting Started • Video cable (not supplied) (1 for TV monitor) Hookups The arrow indicates signal flow. Yellow Yellow CD player Hookups Receiver CD player OUTPUT The arrow indicates signal flow. LINE L You can listen to the sound from VCR or TV/LD by L R connecting the audio signal from VCR or TV/LD to the R receiver. AUDIO IN CD TV/LD MD deck or Tape deck Receiver TV tuner or LD player Receiver MD deck or Tape deck OUTPUT OUTPUT INPUT VIDEO LINE L
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Getting Started Use the function buttons (TV/LD, CD, MD/TAPE etc) to select the VIDEO AUDIO OUT signal. Speaker System Hookups You can record this audio signal by connecting a recording component such as a cassette deck (to the VIDEO AUDIO OUT jack) Overview This section describes how to connect your speakers to DVD player/AC-3 decoder the receiver. To enjoy surround effects, centre and rear speakers and an active woofer are required. For What cables will I need? specific locations of the termin
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REAR REAR R R L + – R R L + – Getting Started To avoid short-circuiting the speakers Active woofer Short-circuiting of the speakers may damage the Receiver Active woofer receiver. To prevent this, make sure to take the WOOFER INPUT AUDIO following precautions when connecting the speakers. OUT Make sure the stripped ends of each speaker cord does not touch another speaker terminal or the stripped end of another speaker cord. Note Do not connect any other component. Examples of poor conditions of
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Getting Started AC Hookups Before You Use Your Receiver Connecting the mains lead Before turning on the receiver Connect the mains lead from this receiver and from Make sure that you have: your audio/video components to a wall outlet. • Turned MASTER VOLUME to the leftmost If you connect other audio components to the position (0). SWITCHED AC OUTLET on the receiver, the receiver • Selected the appropriate front speakers (see “Front can supply power to the connected components so you Panel Parts
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Getting Started 1 Press SET UP. Dolby Surround Setup 2 Press MENU < or > repeatedly until “CTR MODE” (centre mode) appears in the display. Dolby Pro Logic Surround is a system for decoding Dolby Surround sound that is standardized for TV 3 Use + or – to select the centre mode you want. programmes and movies. By selecting the proper A description of each centre mode is as follows: centre mode and adjusting the speaker volume, you If you have So that can reproduce highly precise localization and d
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Getting Started 5 Adjust the volume level so that the volume of the Increasing the output level of the rear test tone from each speaker sounds the same from speaker by 5dB where you are listening. The adjustment range of the rear speakers is preset • To adjust the balance of the front right and front from –15 to + 10, but you can shift the range up 5 levels left speakers, use the BALANCE control on the (– 10 to + 15). front of the main unit. • To adjust the volume level of the centre speaker, 1
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Location of Parts and Basic Amplifier Operations Front Panel Parts Description This chapter gives you the information on the location and function of the buttons and controls on the front panel and explains basic amplifier operations. !Á 1 823 9 !¼ 7 4 6 5 11/u switch 3 5.1 CH/DVD button Press to turn the receiver on and off. Press to select the component connected to the 5.1 CH/DVD jacks. The 5.1 CH/DVD indicator lights Note up when the component is selected. Before you turn on the receiver, ma
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Location of Parts and Basic Amplifier Operations PHONES jack 9 Use the following buttons to enjoy surround sound. Connects headphones. For details, see “Enjoying Surround Sound” starting from page 21. Note To use the headphones, set the SPEAKERS selector to OFF SOUND FIELD ON/OFF button to output sound to the headphones. Press to turn the sound field on or off. 8 DISPLAY button SOUND FIELD MODE +/– button Press repeatedly to change the information on the Press to select a sound field from the gr
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Location of Parts and Basic Amplifier Operations @Á!ª!£ !»!° !¦ !¢ @¼ !¤ !¥ !ª The following buttons operate the built-in tuner. !¢ The following buttons operate the built-in tuner. For details, see “Receiving Broadcasts” starting For details, see “Receiving Broadcasts” starting from page 16. Note that these buttons are operable from page 16. Note that these buttons are operable only when the tuner is selected. only when the tuner is selected. PRESET/PTY SELECT +/– buttons Numeric buttons (1 to
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Location of Parts and Basic Amplifier Operations !¦ SET UP button Press this button repeatedly to select any of the following two indications. The selected indication appears in the display and you will be able to make various settings using the cursor buttons. When you've You can displayed CTR MODE Select any one of the four centre modes (page 10) REAR GAIN Increase the range of rear speakers by 5 dB (page 11) !¥ Press the following buttons to name preset stations or programme sources. For deta
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Receiver Operations If the STEREO indicator remains off Press FM MODE when an FM stereo broadcast is Receiving Broadcasts received. This receiver lets you enter a station’s frequency directly by using the numeric buttons (direct tuning). If If an FM stereo programme is distorted The STEREO indicator flashes. Press FM MODE to you don’t know the frequency of the station you want, change to monaural (MONO). You will not have the see “Receiving broadcasts by scanning stations stereo effect but the d
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Receiver Operations Tuning preset stations (preset tuning) Presetting Radio Stations You can tune directly to a preset station by entering its preset number. If you don’t know which stations are You’ll most likely want to preset the receiver with the preset on which numbers, you can tune by scanning radio stations you listen to often so that you don’t have the preset stations. to tune in the station every time. The receiver can store a total of 30 FM or AM stations. You can store the 1 Press TUN
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Receiver Operations Using the Radio Data System Storing FM Stations (RDS) Automatically in Alphabetical Order (“Auto-betical”) What you can do with the Radio Data With “Auto-betical select” you can automatically store System up to 30 FM and FM RDS stations in alphabetical order without redundancy. Additionally, “Auto-betical Radio Data System (RDS) is a broadcasting service that select” only stores the stations with the clearest signals. allows radio stations to send additional information If yo
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Receiver Operations Notes To stop monitoring the programme • If there is an emergency announcement by government Press RDS EON once. authorities, ALARM flashes in the display. • The following messages appear if a station is not Turn off the EON feature when you want to record a providing a particular RDS service: programme without interruptions, especially when you “NO PTY” (the selected programme type is not available) want to do timer recording. “NO TEXT” (text data is not available) Notes “NO
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Receiver Operations Locating a station by programme type Programme What you hear (PTY) type LIGHT M Classical music, such as instrumental, You can locate a station you want by selecting a vocal, and choral. programme type. The receiver tunes in the type of programmes currently being broadcast from the RDS CLASSICS Performances of major orchestras, chamber music, opera, etc. stations stored in the receiver's preset memory. OTHER M Music that does not fit into any of the above categories, such as
