Pioneer vsxlx102

[Michael lawrence]

Hi guys,

I Have a little situation here and I thought you guys might be able to help. I have a pioneer vsxlx102 receiver(7.2)connect to two subs. In speaker configuration it's not reading two subs nor giving me the opinion to select 5.2 or 7.2. Is there a setting that will allow me to see the two subwoofers in my speaker configuration?
Fyi, I did contact pioneer and the told me to change my center channel to large and the opinion for two subs will become available. That didn't work. Anything suggestions?

 

[everettT]

Are all your speakers set to small?

 

[Michael lawrence]

Yep

 

[everettT]

If you go to manual test tones do they play to the subs?

What subs?

 

[Michael lawrence]

Yes

 

[everettT]

I'd try pioneer CS again.

 

[Michael lawrence]

12" klipsch

 

[Michael lawrence]

This receiver should have the ability two display two subs right?

 

[everettT]

This receiver should have the ability two display two subs right?

Yes it can.

 

[Michael lawrence]

Just got off the phone with pioneer again. Now they are telling me that the second pre out subwoofer port is just a mirror to the first. Basically this receiver will not give me those options. So it will give you the opinion to plug in two subs, but it will only reads 5.1 or 7.1
That really sucks!

 

[lovinthehd]

Just got off the phone with pioneer again. Now they are telling me that the second pre out subwoofer port is just a mirror to the first. Basically this receiver will not give me those options. So it will give you the opinion to plug in two subs, but it will only reads 5.1 or 7.1
That really sucks!

This is typical of most avrs, that the ".2" sub pre-out is merely an internal splitter. Some avrs have the ability to separately handle two subs in terms of level/delay, usually these are at the high end of the avr model range. Denon avrs with AudysseyXT32/SubEQ can do this. I thought I'd read some versions of MCACC can do this, but it should be evident in your manual, not familiar with newer Pioneers (since my last Pioneer died an early death plus Onkyo buying them they're kind of off my list).

 

[j_garcia]

Pretty sure Audessey is the only one that can do this (possibly?), so reading the orig. message I was pretty sure that was going to be the answer.

 

[lovinthehd]

Pretty sure Audessey is the only one that can do this (possibly?), so reading the orig. message I was pretty sure that was going to be the answer.

I seem to remember Pioneer promoting at one point an MCACC version that would do similar...MCACC Pro I think but been a while since I dug into Pioneers....

 

[j_garcia]

I seem to remember Pioneer promoting at one point an MCACC version that would do similar...MCACC Pro I think but been a while since I dug into Pioneers....

I'm sure, still not as good as Audessey I thought I heard that a while back too, but nobody talks about it so...that often tells the story. If that's the case too, likely only comes on flagship model.

 

[Michael lawrence]

This is typical of most avrs, that the ".2" sub pre-out is merely an internal splitter. Some avrs have the ability to separately handle two subs in terms of level/delay, usually these are at the high end of the avr model range. Denon avrs with AudysseyXT32/SubEQ can do this. I thought I'd read some versions of MCACC can do this, but it should be evident in your manual, not familiar with newer Pioneers (since my last Pioneer died an early death plus Onkyo buying them they're kind of off my list).

This is typical of most avrs, that the ".2" sub pre-out is merely an internal splitter. Some avrs have the ability to separately handle two subs in terms of level/delay, usually these are at the high end of the avr model range. Denon avrs with AudysseyXT32/SubEQ can do this. I thought I'd read some versions of MCACC can do this, but it should be evident in your manual, not familiar with newer Pioneers (since my last Pioneer died an early death plus Onkyo buying them they're kind of off my list).

Thank you for this information. I will take my time and go through the manual carefully this time.

 

[lovinthehd]

Thank you for this information. I will take my time and go through the manual carefully this time.

It should be covered in the speaker setup section, and/or for running MCACC