Pioneer VSX-918V-K Features |
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Precision You Can Hear |
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| Enter a world of pristine sound and flawless technology. A world with more connectivity options than ever before. It's a realm of engineering beyond anything previously imagined. Let Pioneer's VSX918VK A/V receiver turn up your home theater experience with 5.1 channels of high-powered amplification that immerse you in three-dimensional surround sound. There's no better way to enjoy movies, music, sports, games, and HDTV. But why stop there? With a host of digital connections, you can also enjoy both XM Satellite Radio and SIRIUS Satellite Radio on your home theater system; and because of WMA9 Pro compatibility, you can bring compressed Windows Media Audio encoded music and other content to surround sound life. Whatever your entertainment of choice, now you can fill your space with 120 watts of sound across five channels in any of 14 advanced surround modes. And it's not just high definition audio that sounds amazing on this Pioneer receiver. The new Freescale 180MIPS Digital Signal Processor, coupled with Pioneer's patent-pending Sound Retriever technology that compensates for the audio data removed from compressed files, brings near-CD richness to audio formats like MP3, WMA, and MPEG-4 AAC. Built into a single integrated circuit, the Pioneer Hybrid Amplifier Technology with Thermal Compensation Transistor Design delivers perfect sound precision, despite heat variations. So your sound stays cleaner, crisper, longer. Even when you play it louder. |
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Amplified Quality |
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| This next gets a little technical. If you don't care exactly how Pioneer achieves such incomparable performance, skip to the next feature. You've been warned. The VSX918VK's Pioneer Hybrid Amplifier design is a unique structure to reduce the distortion caused by the dynamic change of heat in the system. Temperature is a key factor since heat directly affects the amount of bias required by an output transistor to reproduce sound. A thermal compensation transistor provides transistor temperature feedback to the bias circuit, ensuring that the correct amount of bias is applied to the transistors, regardless of temperature. Moreover, to enhance dissipation of heat, the output transistor's Thermal Compensation Circuits are all mounted to the same portion of the heat sink. The advantages are thorough reduction of the distortion by controlling bias current quickly in accordance with the change of the power transistor temperature and an ultra short signal path by integrating major parts of the power amplification stage. Any questions? |
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Engineered Excellence |
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| The advanced simplicity of design and the superior quality of the chips, power supplies, and materials that make up the VSX918VK prove that Pioneer A/V receivers are indeed the industry standard. The Freescale DSP Digital Engine incorporates all digital signal processing into one powerful, compact circuit board, shortening the signal path and minimizing radiation. The benefits are low jitter, a super-accurate PLL sound-processing clocking module, and virtually no audio degradation. Plus, this processors's low impedance stabilizes power throughout the chip, preventing internal noise that can affect signal purity. |
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Best Performance In Any Room, Automatically |
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| To achieve optimal audio performance, your speaker output needs to be fine-tuned to the listening room. Room size and shape, floor and wall textures, the quality and relative size of your speakers; all of these factors affect performance. Pioneer has a solution. The VSX918VK offers the most precise acoustic calibration available without professional support. It's called the Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System, or MCACC, and it works in any room regardless of shape or size. Automatic MCACC set-up uses a microphone to monitor a room's acoustic environment, then determines the size and number of speakers, as well as channel level and listener-to-speaker distances. The VSX918VK even has a 5-band equalizer with EQ memory for more precise adjustment. With MCACC, you can have the ultimate home entertainment system; one that's customized for your own home. |
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Surrounded By Pristine Sound |
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| In addition to the more traditional surround sound formats, the VSX918VK offers new Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Pro Logic II. Pioneer's exclusive DSP technology lets you experience movies and music as never before. By compensating for the phase lag inherent in 5.1-channel surround sound systems, Phase Control Bass Management assures that low frequency signals arrive at the listening position in sync with the other 5.1 audio channels. There are 14 Advanced Surround modes, including Front Stage Surround Advance, which lets you enjoy the full benefits of surround sound with all five speakers at the front of the room. Perfect listening areas with limited space. Virtual Surround Back mode deepens and broadens the sound stage by creating a phantom rear surround effect without using a surround back speaker. Enjoy all this high-quality entertainment in 120-watt per channel surround sound, across as many as five speakers. With this receiver at the center of your system, there's virtually no limit to your entertainment possibilities. |
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Quality Connections |
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| Three HDMI repeater connections (2 in, 1 out) make A/V input switching easy. Pioneer's 0 to 160ms HDMI Lip Sync compensates for differing audio and video signal processing rates to deliver the picture and sound simultaneously. To enjoy cinema-quality sound, just connect a Pioneer DVD player and surround system speakers and you're ready. For CD-R/RW, MD, and other recording media, this receiver has one digital coaxial and two optical audio inputs, plus two optical digital outputs. You also get three component video inputs and one output to maintain the signal integrity from such digital sources as DVD and DTV. On the VSX918VK's front panel, you'll find an A/V connection, the USB iPod DIRECT input, and a minijack input that's used for other portable music players as well as for the MCACC calibration microphone. |
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XM Or SIRIUS? Now You Can Choose |
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| XM or SIRIUS? SIRIUS or XM? There was a time when the manufacturer of your A/V receiver determined which satellite radio service would be compatible. Not any more! Pioneer's VSX918VK receiver is compatible with both XM and SIRIUS. XM delivers over 170 channels of music (including 69 commercial-free channels), news, sports, talk, comedy, and children's programming. There are even select channels broadcasting in XM-HD Surround 5.1-channel audio. To hear XM you'll need the optional XM Mini-Tuner and XM Mini-Tuner Home Dock, or the older XM Connect & Play tuner/antenna (none of which is included). SIRIUS brings you over 130 channels with all music channels commercial free. To hear SIRIUS you'll need the optional SiriusConnect Home tuner (not included). Check xmradio.com and sirius.com to see which service has your favorite sports coverage and personalities, and for the hardware to make it happen. You also have to subscribe to either or both services, activation and subscription fees apply (subscriptions not included). |
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Receiver, or giver? |
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| Pioneer's VSX918VK may be called a receiver; but really, it's a giver. It embraces your every component without prejudice. Flat panel high definition televisions, Blu-ray and DVD players, video game consoles, surround sound speakers, iPods, XM and SIRIUS Satellite Radio are all welcomed harmoniously, instantaneously. You won't just be entertained, you'll be transported; your senses treated to stimuli they haven't experienced before. Control all this power at your command, often with just a single push of a button. And if this isn't impressive enough, watch as Pioneer's receivers calibrate themselves to their environment automatically with MCACC, the Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System, for the best audio experience possible. It's a performance no other receiver in the world can follow. |
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Pioneer innovation, quality, and lifestyle |
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| Pioneer is a company full of engineers who have difficulty accepting the words it can't be done. Frequently, industry experts say something is impossible, only to have Pioneer prove them wrong. So when everyone said that a vehicle was too harsh an environment for the sensitive laser needed to play CDs, Pioneer created the world's first in-car CD player. Pioneer had a hand in creating the new Blu-ray Disc format to play movies at home in HD or to record huge volumes of data from your computer. In an era when computers are out of date as soon as you buy them and some A/V components are easier to replace than to repair, Pioneer takes pride in developing products that last. Pioneer manufactures most of their products directly; so when your component comes from a Pioneer factory, you know it's survived the most rigorous quality assurance testing. It's one thing to create nifty new gadgets, but consumers know that nifty is not the same as useful. Pioneer listens when consumers talk about the products they want to buy, and then does its best to make products that exceed your expectations. |
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Included With Purchase |
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| Auto MCACC setup microphone, remote control, batteries for remote (2 AA), AM loop antenna, FM wire antenna, Operating Instructions. |
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