02
Connecting your equipment
Installing your speaker system
To take full advantage of the receiver's surround sound
capabilities connect front, center, surround and
surround back speakers, as well as a subwoofer.
Although this is ideal, other configurations with fewer
speakers—no subwoofer or no center speaker, or even
no surround speakers—will work. At the very least, front
left and right speakers only are necessary. Note that your
Subwoofer
Connecting the speakers
Each speaker connection on the receiver comprises a
positive (+) red, and negative (–) white terminal. For
proper sound you should take care to match these up
with the terminals on the speakers themselves.
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En
Front
left
LINE LEVEL
INPUT
DIGITAL
USB AUDIO
S400
(AUDIO)
IN
AUDIO
R
L
PHONO
OUT 2
IN
AUDIO
POWER
CD
AMP
OUT 1
IN
IN
6
(CD-R/
TAPE1/
MD)
IN
R
L
R
L
5
CENTER
OUT
(DVR/
REC
VCR1)
IN
CD-R/
TAPE1/
4
SUB W.
MD
(SAT)
PRE OUT
IN
IN
1
2
PLAY
(Single)
SUR-
OUT
ROUND
(CD)
3 IN
REC
R
L
TAPE 2
MONITOR
(TV/
2 IN
IN
DVD)
R
L
PLAY
(Single)
FRONT
SUB W
CENTER
(DVD/
1 IN
LD)
R
L
SUR-
SUR-
ROUND
ROUND
2RF
(DVD/
BACK
IN
LD)
R
L
R
L
(Single)
ASSIGNABLE
MULTI CH INPUT
VSX-AX10Ai
Surround
left
main surround speakers should always be connected as
a pair, but you can connect just one surround back
speaker if you like (it must be connected to the left
surround back terminal). You can use speakers with a
nominal impedance between 4–16Ω (please see
Switching the speaker impedance on page 77 if you plan
to use speakers with an impedance of less than 6Ω).
Center
CONTROL
MONITOR
OUT 1
OUT
IN
MONITOR
OUT 2
COMPONENT VIDEO
DVD/
(DVD/
IN
LD
LD)
Y
IN
IN
Y
1
MONITOR
TV/
OUT
IN
DVD
P
B
IN
P
B
SAT
IN
IN
P
R
P
R
IN
IN
OUT
OUT
2
3
DVR/
Y
Y
VCR1
IN
IN
P
P
B
B
OUT
OUT
VCR2
P
P
R
R
ASSIGNABLE
IN
IN
OUT
OUT
VCR3
IN
IN
R
L
RS-232C
AUDIO
VIDEO
S2 VIDEO
Surround
Surround
back right
back left
Front
right
A
TWO VOLTAGE SELECTORS
ANTENNA
L
FRONT
AM LOOP
R
ANTENNA
220V
230-240V
120-127V
110V
FM
110V
220V
75 UNBAL
120-127V
230-240V
CENTER
L
SUR-
ROUND
SELECTABLE (SURROUND BACK & B )
R
B
L
(Single)
SUR-
ROUND
BACK
R
1
DC OUT 12V
TOTAL 100mA MAX
2
SPEAKERS
12V TRIGGER
Surround
right
AC IN
L
R