Pioneer SC-05 receiver
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• Checking what’s in the box »
• Installing the receiver »
• Loading the batteries »
• Introduction to home theater »
• Listening to Surround Sound »
• Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC & Full... »
• Problems when using the Auto MCACC Setup »
• Playing a source »
• Better sound using Phase Control and Full Band Phase... »
• Using Full Band Phase Control »
• Rear panel »
• When making cable connections »
• About the video converter »
• Connecting using HDMI »
• About HDMI »
• Connecting your Blu-ray disc player »
• Connecting your TV and DVD player »
• Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other set-top box »
• Connecting a DVD/HDD recorder, VCR and other video sources »
• Using the component video jacks »
• Connecting digital audio sources »
• About the WMA9 Pro decoder »
• Connecting analog audio sources »
• Connecting a component to the front panel inputs »
• Installing your speaker system »
• Connecting the speakers »
• Placing the speakers »
• THX speaker system setup »
• Connecting antennas »
• AM loop antenna »
• FM wire antenna »
• Connecting external antennas »
• Plugging in the receiver »
• Front panel »
• Operating range of remote control unit »
• Display »
• Remote control »
• Auto playback »
• Listening in surround sound »
• Standard surround sound »
• Using the Home THX modes »
• Using the Advanced surround effects »
• Listening in stereo »
• Using Front Stage Surround Advance »
• Using Stream Direct »
• Selecting MCACC presets »
• Choosing the input signal »
• Using surround back channel processing »
• Using the Virtual Surround Back mode »
• Using the genre synchronizing function »
• Listening to the radio »
• Improving FM sound »
• Using the noise cut mode »
• Using Neural THX »
• Tuning directly to a station »
• Saving station presets »
• Naming station presets »
• Listening to station presets »
• Making receiver settings from the Advanced MCACC menu »
• Automatic MCACC (Expert) »
• Manual MCACC setup »
• Fine Channel Level »
• Fine Speaker Distance »
• Standing Wave »
• Acoustic Calibration EQ Adjust »
• Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional »
• Checking MCACC Data »
• Data Management »
• Making receiver settings from the System Setup menu »
• Manual speaker setup »
• Surround back speaker setting »
• Speaker Setting »
• Channel Level »
• Speaker Distance »
• Curve »
• THX Audio Setting »
• Using XM Radio »
• Connecting your XM Radio receiver »
• Listening to XM Radio »
• Using XM HD Surround »
• Saving channel presets »
• Using the XM Menu »
• Using SIRIUS Radio »
• Connecting your SiriusConnect™ Tuner »
• Listening to SIRIUS Radio »
• Saving channel presets »
• Using the SIRIUS Menu »
• Connecting the multichannel analog inputs »
• Selecting the multichannel analog inputs »
• Speaker B setup »
• Switching the speaker system »
• Bi-amping your speakers »
• Bi-wiring your speakers »
• Connecting additional amplifiers »
• MULTI-ZONE listening »
• Making MULTI-ZONE connections »
• Using the MULTI-ZONE controls »
• Connecting an IR receiver »
• Switching components on and off using the 12 volt trigger »
• Using this receiver with a Pioneer flat panel TV »
• Using the SR mode with a Pioneer flat panel TV »
• Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output »
• Advanced MCACC output using your PC »
• Enjoying the Home Media Gallery »
• Features of Home Media Gallery »
• Steps to enjoy the Home Media Gallery »
• Playing back audio files on the network and listening to... »
• Playing back audio or photo files stored on a USB memory... »
• Playing back audio files stored on an iPod »
• Connecting to the network through LAN interface »
• Connecting an iPod »
• Connecting a USB device »
• Introduction »
• About network playback »
• Windows Media Connect »
• Windows Media DRM »
• DLNA »
• Content playable over a network »
• About playback behavior over a network »
• Authorizing this receiver »
• Playback with Home Media Gallery »
• Playing back audio files stored on components on the... »
• Playing back audio files stored on an iPod »
• Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory device »
• Finding what you want to play »
• Basic playback controls »
• Listening to Internet radio stations »
• Listening to Neural Music Direct »
• Playing back your favorite songs »
• About playable file formats »
• Advanced operations for Internet radio »
• Saving Internet radio stations »
• Retrieving saved Internet radio stations »
• Setting up the network »
• Checking the network settings »
• Software update »
• Making the HDMI Control connections »
• Setting the HDMI options »
• Setting the HDMI Control mode »
• Before using synchronization »
• Synchronized amp mode »
• Synchronized amp mode operations »
• Canceling synchronized amp mode »
• About HDMI Control »
• The Input Setup menu »
• Input function default and possible settings »
• Changing the OSD display language (OSD Language) »
• The Other Setup menu »
• Multi Channel Input Setup »
• ZONE Audio Setup »
• SR Setup for Pioneer flat panel TVs »
• Flicker Reduction Setup »
• Setting the Audio options »
• Setting the Video options »
• Making an audio or a video recording »
• Reducing the level of an analog signal »
• Using the sleep timer »
• Dimming the display »
• Switching the HDMI output »
• Checking your system settings »
• Resetting the system »
• Default system settings »
• Setting the remote to control other components »
• Selecting preset codes directly »
• Programming signals from other remote controls »
• Erasing one of the remote control button settings »
• Resetting the remote control presets »
• Confirming preset codes »
• Renaming input source names »
• Direct function »
• Multi Operation and System Off »
• Programming a multi-operation or a shutdown sequence »
• Using multi operations »
• Using System off »
• Controls for TVs »
• Controls for other components »
• Operating other Pioneer components with this unit’s sensor »
• Speaker Setting Guide »
• Positional relationship between speakers and monitor »
• Troubleshooting »
• Power »
• No sound »
• Other audio problems »
• Video »
• Settings »
• Professional Calibration EQ graphical output »
• Display »
• Remote control »
• HDMI »
• Important information regarding the HDMI connection »
• HOME MEDIA GALLERY »
• About status messages »
• XM radio messages »
• SIRIUS radio messages »
• Meaning of messages displayed when the HDMI control... »
• Surround sound formats »
• Dolby »
• DTS »
• Windows Media Audio 9 Professional »
• About THX »
• About Neural – THX Surround »
• About XM »
• About SIRIUS »
• About FLAC »
• FLAC Decoder »
• Listening modes with different input signal formats »
• Stream direct with different input signal formats »
• Specifications »
• Cleaning the unit »
• Our philosophy »
• Features »
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Overall nothing about this receiver in terms of sound whether watching movies or listening to music made me think this receiver was worth the extra money...I decided to keep the 2809 and then I found that Magnolia (where I got a deal on the Denon) had an online advertised price of 1K for the Pioneer Sc-05...However, they let me take an SC-05 home and demo it for about...