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PREPARATION
PREPARATION
Connecting Digital Audio Components
Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from
the AC outlet.
Connect your digital components as shown below. The VSX-43TX has two coaxial, two optical inputs for a
total of four digital inputs. In order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS (among others) you
need to make digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection (you
don’t need to do both). The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some digital
components only have one type of digital terminal, it is a matter of matching like with like (for example,
the coaxial out from the component to coaxial in on the receiver).
Hook up your digital equipment in accordance with this receiver's default settings (see next page) unless
you want to, or need to, change them. To do this see "Assigning the Digital Inputs" on page 76.
There are two optical digital out jacks (the CD recorder is connected to one in the diagram below). If you
connect this to the optical input on a digital recorder (currently these include MD, DAT and CD-R) you can
make direct digital recordings with this unit.
We also recommend hooking up your digital components to analog audio jacks (see page 19) in order to
make recordings because some digital sources may be protected against making digital copies.
*The arrows indicate the direction of the audio signal.
(not a PCM-only output)
PCM/
2DIGITAL /
DTS
OUT1
OUT2
IN
R
L
(TV/
SAT)
1
IN
(CD-R/
TAPE1)
2
IN
3
(DVD/
LD)
IN
4
(CD)
PLAY
PLAY
CD-R/
TAPE1
IN
OUT
IN
OUT
VCR1/
DVR
TV/
SAT
IN
DVD/
LD
IN
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
FRONT
CENTER
SUR-
ROUND
SUB
WOOFER
PRE OUT
VCR2
CD
LINE
DIGITAL
AUDIO AUDIO VIDEO
IN
IN
IN
OUT
IN
OUT
VIDEO S VIDEO
MD/
TAPE2
REC
REC
MULTI CH IN
OUT
IN
MONITOR OUT
CONTROL
75Ω
ANTENNA
AM LOOP
FM UNBAL
R
L
R
L
L
R
L
R
L
R
ASSIGNABLE
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
SUR-
ROUND
FRONT
SUB
WOOF-
ER
L
R
L
R
L
R
CEN-
TER
(Single)
CD recorder
OUTPUT
(PLAY)
INPUT
(REC)
DIGITAL
Satellite tuner
DVD player
OUTPUT
DIGITAL DIGITAL
OUTPUT
DIGITAL
CD player
OUTPUT
DIGITAL
Connecting Your Equipment
7 Coaxial cords/Optical cables
Commercially available digital audio coaxial
cords (standard video cords can also be used) or
optical cables (not supplied) are used to connect
digital components to this receiver.
Be sure to insert completely and in the case of
the optical cable, right-side up. If it is inserted
improperly it can break the shutter on the
optical terminal (this won't, however, affect the
connection or insertion of an optical cable).
Coaxial cord
(or standard [composite]
video cord)
Optical cable