ONKYO TX-SR304E User Manual

EnAV ReceiverTX-SR304TX-SR304ETX-SR404TX-SR8440Instruction ManualThank you for purchasing an Onkyo AV Receiver. Please read this manual thoroughly be

10 Remote Controller Including the AV receiver, the remote controller can be used to control up to six different components. The remote controller ha

11 Remote Controller —Continued For detailed information, see the pages in parentheses. A ON/STANDBY button (32) This button is used to set the AV re

12 Remote Controller —Continued To set the remote controller to DVD mode, press the [DVD] REMOTE MODE button. A ON/STANDBY button This button sets th

13 Remote Controller —Continued To set the remote controller to CD mode, press the [CD] REMOTE MODE button. A ON/STANDBY button This button sets the

14 Remote Controller —Continued To set the remote controller to MD or CDR mode, press the [MD] or [CDR] REMOTE MODE button. A ON/STANDBY button This

15 Remote Controller —Continued To set the remote controller to HDD mode, press the [HDD] REMOTE MODE button. A ON/STANDBY button This button sets th

16 Remote Controller —Continued TAPE mode is used to control an Onkyo cassette recorder connected to the AV receiver via . To set the remote contro

17 Enjoying Home Theater You can use two sets of speakers with the AV receiver: speaker set A and speaker set B . Speaker set A should be used in

18 Connecting Your Speakers For the best surround-sound experience, you should con-nect five speakers and a powered subwoofer. The following table sh

19 Connecting Your Speakers —Continued Using a suitable cable, connect the AV receiver’s SUB-WOOFER PRE OUT to an input on your powered sub-woofer,

2 Important Safety Instructions 1. Read these instructions.2. Keep these instructions.3. Heed all warnings.4. Follow all instructions.5. Do not use t

20 Connecting Antenna This section explains how to connect the supplied indoor FM antenna and AM loop antenna, and how to connect commercially availa

21 Connecting Antenna —Continued If you cannot achieve good reception with the supplied indoor FM antenna, try a commercially available out-door FM a

22 Connecting Your Components • Before making any AV connections, read the manuals supplied with your other AV components.• Don’t connect the power

23 Connecting Your Components —Continued By connecting both the audio and video outputs of your DVD player and other AV components to the AV receive

24 Connecting Your Components —Continued Connecting a DVD PlayerYPBCOMPONENT VIDEO OUTPR VIDEOOUTYPBCOMPONENT VIDEO INVIDEO INPRABBBABTV, projector,

25 Connecting Your Components —ContinuedCOAXIALOUTAUDIOOUTLROPTICALOUTFRONTLRSURROUNDLRCENTERSUBWOOFERccd d d dabStep 2: Audio ConnectionIf your DVD

26 Connecting Your Components —Continued Connecting a VCR for Playback Connecting a VCRYPBCOMPONENT VIDEO OUTPR VIDEOOUTYPBCOMPONENT VIDEO INVIDEO I

27 Connecting Your Components —Continued Connecting a VCR for RecordingAUDIOINLRVIDEOINAaStep 1: Video ConnectionConnect the AV receiver’s VIDEO 1 O

28 Connecting Your Components —Continued Connecting a Satellite, Cable, Set-top Box, or Other Video SourceYPBCOMPONENT VIDEO OUTPR VIDEOOUTYPBCOMPON

29 Connecting Your Components —Continued CD Player or Turntable with Built-in Phono Preamp Turntable (MM) with no Phono Preamp Built-in A phono

3 Precautions 1. Recording Copyright —Unless it’s for personal use only, recording copyrighted material is illegal with-out the permission of the cop

30 Connecting Your Components —Continued As of this printing, the Onkyo Remote Interactive Dock is the only HDD-compatible component available.Conne

31 Connecting Your Components —Continued With (Remote Interactive), you can use the following special functions: Auto Power On/Standby When you

32 Turning OnTONE+STEREOLISTENING MODEDISPLAYDIGITAL INPUTRT/PTY/TP MEMORYTUNING MODERETURNTUNING / PRESETENTERSETUPSTANDBYSTANDBY/ONCLEARPHONESMULTl

33 First Time Setup To enjoy Dolby Digital and DTS, you must connect your DVD player to the AV receiver by using a digital audio connection (coaxial

34 First Time Setup —Continued This section explains how to specify your speaker con-figuration.For speakers with a cone diameter larger than 6-1/2 in

35 First Time Setup —Continued 5 Use the Down [ ] button to select “Center,” and then use the Left and Right [ ]/[ ] buttons to select Small , Larg

36 Playing Your AV Components Basic AV Receiver OperationTONE+STEREOLISTENING MODEDISPLAYDIGITAL INPUTRT/PTY/TP MEMORYTUNING MODERETURNTUNING / PRESE

37 Playing Your AV Components —Continued The multichannel input is for connecting a component with individual 5.1-channel analog audio output jacks,

38 Using the Tuner With the built-in tuner, you can enjoy AM and FM radio stations. You can store your favorite stations as presets for quick selecti

39 Using the Tuner —Continued Presetting Radio Stations You can store up to 30 of your favorite radio stations as presets. Selecting Preset Stations

4 Precautions —Continued For British models Replacement and mounting of an AC plug on the power supply cord of this unit should be performed only by

40 Using the Tuner —Continued Using RDS (European models only) RDS only works with European models and only in areas where RDS broadcasts are availab

41 Using the Tuner —Continued Displaying Radio Text (RT) When tuned to an RDS station that’s broadcasting RT text information, that information can b

42 Common Functions This chapter explains functions that can be used with any input source.You can connect a pair of stereo headphones (1/4-inch phon

43 Common Functions —Continued With this function, you can temporarily mute the output of the AV receiver. To unmute the AV receiver, press the remo

44 Common Functions —Continued You can adjust the level of each speaker in speaker set A while listening to an input source. These temporary adjustme

45 Using the Listening Modes See “About the Listening Modes” on page 46 for detailed information about the listening modes. Selecting on the AV recei

46 Using the Listening Modes —Continued About the Listening Modes With its built-in surround-sound decoders and DSP pro-grams, the AV receiver can tr

47 Using the Listening Modes —Continued The following table lists all the listening modes and shows which modes can be selected for each input signal

48 Adjusting the Listening Modes Some functions are not available with all speaker config-urations.Audio Adjust provides various functions for adjusti

49 Adjusting the Listening Modes —Continued PL II Music Mode Settings These settings apply to only 2-channel (stereo) sources. Panorama With this f

5 Features Amplification • 65 W/channel into 6 ohms (20 Hz–20 kHz, 0.7%, FTC)• 90 W/channel into 6 ohms (1 kHz, DIN)• 110 W/channel into 6 ohms (JEITA

50 Recording This chapter explains how to record the selected input source to an AV component with recording capability, and how to record audio and

51 Advanced Setup Crossover Frequency This setting only applies to the speakers that you speci-fied as Small in the “Speaker Configuration” on page 3

52 Advanced Setup —Continued Speaker Distance To get the best from surround sound, it’s important that the sound from each speaker reaches the listen

53 Advanced Setup —Continued Note: •A quicker way to adjust the speaker levels is to press the remote controller’s [TEST TONE] button to output the t

54 Advanced Setup —Continued When using progressive scanning on your DVD player, you may find that the picture and sound are out of sync. With this se

55 Troubleshooting If you have any trouble using the AV receiver, look for a solution in this section. Can’t turn on the AV receiver? • Make sure th

56 Troubleshooting —Continued • On the AV receiver, the subwoofer setting in the speaker configuration is set to No. Set the subwoofer setting to Yes.

57 Troubleshooting —Continued Can’t record? • On your recorder, make sure the correct input is selected.•To prevent signal loops and damage to the AV

58 Specifications Amplifier Section Video Section Tuner Section FM AM General Video Inputs Video Outputs Audio Inputs Audio Outputs Specific

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6 Front & Rear Panels For detailed information, see the pages in parentheses. A STANDBY/ON button (32) This button is used to set the AV receiver

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7 Front & Rear Panels —Continued J MEMORY button (39) This button is used when storing or deleting radio presets. K TUNING MODE button (38) This

8 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A DIGITAL IN OPTICAL 1, 2 & COAXIAL These optical and coaxial jacks can be used to con-nect a CD or DVD play

9 Before Using the AV receiver Notes: • If the remote controller doesn’t work reliably, try replacing the batteries.• Don’t mix new and old batteries