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Front & Rear Panels—Continued
DVD/BD IN
Here you can connect a DVD/BD player. Input
jacks include S-Video, composite video, and analog
audio. You can connect a DVD/BD player’s 2-chan-
nel analog audio output.
MULTI CH input: FRONT L/R, CENTER,
SUBWOOFER, SURR L/R, and SURR BACK
L/R
This analog multichannel input is for connecting a
component with a 5.1/7.1-channel analog audio out-
put, such as a DVD player, DVD-Audio or Super
Audio CD-capable player, or an MPEG decoder.
PRE OUT: FRONT L/R, CENTER, SURR L/R,
SURR BACK L/R, and FRONT HIGH/WIDE
L/R
These multichannel analog audio outputs can be
connected to the analog audio input on a multichan-
nel power amplifier for when you want to use the
AV receiver solely as a preamplifier.
PRE OUT: SW1, SW2
These analog audio outputs can be connected to a
powered subwoofer. You can connect the powered
subwoofer with each jacks respectively. Level and
distance can be set individually for each output.
PRE OUT: ZONE 2, ZONE 3 L/R
These analog audio outputs can be connected to the
line inputs on amplifiers in Zone 2 and Zone 3.
FRONT L/R, CENTER, SURR L/R, SURR
BACK/ZONE 3 L/R, FRONT HIGH L/R, and
FRONT WIDE/ZONE 2 L/R
These terminal posts are for connecting the front
L/R, center, surround L/R, surround back/zone 3
L/R, front high L/R, and front wide/zone 2 L/R
speakers.
The FRONT L/R and SURR BACK/ZONE 3 L/R
terminal posts can be used with front speakers A
and surround back speakers respectively, or used to
bi-amp or bridge the front speakers A. See “Bi-amp-
ing the Front Speakers A” on page 23 and “Bridging
the Front Speakers A” on page 24.
The FRONT WIDE/ZONE 2 L/R and SURR
BACK/ZONE 3 L/R terminal posts can be used
with front speakers B and surround back speakers
respectively, or used to biamp or bridge the front
speakers B. See “Bi-amping the Front Speakers B”
on page 25 and “Bridging the Front Speakers B” on
page 26.
The FRONT WIDE/ZONE 2 L/R terminals can be
used with front wide speakers respectively, or used
to connect the speakers in Zone 2.
See “Connecting Zone 2” on page 131.
The SURR BACK/ZONE 3 L/R terminals can be
used with surround speakers respectively, or used to
connect the speakers in Zone 3.
See “Connecting Zone 3” on page 133.
SIRIUS antenna
(North American models)
This jack is for connecting a SIRIUS Satellite Radio
antenna, sold separately (see the separate SIRIUS
instructions).
See pages 18 to 47 for connection information.