Kenwood Sovereign VR-5080 User manual

Using Your New Kenwood Audio-Video
Receiver
Welcome to the Users’ Guide for your new Kenwood Audio-Video Re-
ceiver. It connects all your current audio and video components. It allows
you to control them all with Kenwood’s remarkable LCD remote.
This manual covers three models.

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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Moving Around ............................. 1
What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio - Video
Receiver? ................................................................................... 2
What’s on Remote Control Unit? ............................................. 4
LCD Indicators ......................................................................... 6
How Do I Use Remote Control Unit? .................................. 7
Remote controllable range .......................................................7
Chapter Two: Controlling the Receiver................ 8
How Do I Adjust the Sound?............................................... 9
Turning the Speakers On ..........................................................9
Adjusting the Volume ............................................................. 10
Adjusting the Tone (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode
Off) ...................................................................................... 11
Adjusting the Loudness (Only in STEREO mode with THX
mode Off) .......................................................................... 13
Adjusting Speaker Levels ....................................................... 14
Adjusting the Input Level ...................................................... 15
Muting Sound ........................................................................ 16
Midnight Theatre Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES
only) ................................................................................... 16

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HDCD and D.R.I.V.E. Effects ................................................ 33
Headphone Operation .......................................................... 34
Selecting the Inputs ............................................................... 35
How Do I Operate Devices? .............................................. 36
Playback of the device connected to the CD2/TAPE2
MONITOR .......................................................................... 36
Operating a Television ........................................................... 37
Operating an AV Device ........................................................ 38
Operating a CD player........................................................... 39
To play Kenwood 200-Disc CD Changer ............................. 39
Single or Rotary CD Player ..................................................... 41
CD-R Recorder ........................................................................ 41
Operating an MD Recorder or Cassette Deck ...................... 42
Playing an Analog Turntable................................................. 43
Monitoring a Video Camera or Playing an Additional VCR ... 43
How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes? ............................ 17
What is the THX? ................................................................... 17
What are Listen Modes?......................................................... 18
Checking the Input signal during playback .......................... 21
Input Modes ........................................................................... 22
Switching Input Modes ......................................................... 23
To set the THX Mode ............................................................. 24
To set the Listen Mode manually .......................................... 26
Examples of inputs with which switching is available........ 27
Description of Dolby Pro Logic II: Music mode.................. 29
Selecting the parameter of Pro Logic II: Music mode ......... 29
Applying Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Effects .................. 31

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Radio Tuning .......................................................................... 44
Recording ................................................................................ 47
How Do I Adjust the LCD Display? ................................... 50
Using Remote Control unit under low light ........................ 50
Adjusting the contrast of LCD display ................................. 50
Adjusting the brightness of receiver ...................................... 51
Selecting the display mode of receiver front panel .............. 51
Executing Several Operations at Once (Macro function).. 52
Registering a macro................................................................ 52
Executing a macro .................................................................. 53
Using Remote Control Unit in Multiple Zones ................. 54
Haw Do I Switch Control Modes? ........................................ 54
Operation using the SYS.POWER button on Remote Control
unit ..................................................................................... 56
Chapter Three : Button Layout in Controlling
Other Devices .................................................... 57
Chapter Four: Troubleshooting......................... 69
Sound.......................................................................................71
I don’t hear any sound at all .................................................. 71
Audio is not output only when a 96k fs compatible disc is
played. ................................................................................. 71
The 96k fs indicator does not light while a 96k fs compatible
disc is being played. ........................................................... 71

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I can’t hear sound from one or more of the speakers, or the
sound is abnormally low .................................................. 72
I can’t hear sound from my surround or center speakers ... 72
I can hear sound only from the center speaker when Dolby
Pro Logic is selected .......................................................... 72
A DTS-ES encoded source is played but it is not decoded in
DTS-ES. ............................................................................... 72
A Dolby Digital Surround EX-encoded source is played with
THX Surround EX set to “Auto”, but the source is not
reproduced in 6.1-channel audio. .................................... 73
Sound from one (or more) of my components is abnormally
loud or soft ........................................................................ 73
I can’t hear sound from some of my laser discs .................. 73
There wasn’t any sound recorded on tapes made on my VCR
or tape deck ........................................................................ 73
The initial sound is intermittent or non-existent when I start
to play from a Dolby Digital, DTS, DTS-ES or MPEG
source ................................................................................. 73
With a Dolby Digital program or DTS program, the loud
sounds aren’t very loud and the quiet sounds aren’t very
quiet.................................................................................... 74
All I hear is loud static when I play DTS discs ..................... 74
I hear a hum when I select the PHONO input .................... 74
Sound is intermittent............................................................. 74
I can’t hear any sound in Zone B .......................................... 74
Video ....................................................................................... 74
I can’t see the program I’m playing on the TV. There wasn’t
any video output to my VCR when I recorded ................ 74

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Remote Control unit .............................................................. 75
My Remote Control unit is slow to respond—sometimes I have
to press buttons or select commands several times ............ 75
My Remote Control unit is not responding ......................... 75
I want to clear all the items in Remote Control unit and
make it to the factory-set default condition. ................... 76
The RF remote control function does not work ................. 76
Receiver/Tuner ........................................................................ 76
My receiver won’t turn on and the STANDBY indicator is
flashing ............................................................................... 76
The sound is distorted, and the CLIP indicator on the
receiver’s front panel flashes red continually, or stays red
for more than 1 second at a time ..................................... 77
I can’t receive a radio station ................................................ 78
I’m getting a lot of static/interference .................................. 78
When I press a button to tune to a preset station, the receiver
does not respond ............................................................... 78

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Chapter One: Moving Around
Welcome to the Kenwood VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 Users’Guide. This
chapter explains the buttons and functions you can find on the front of
the receiver and on Remote Control unit. The chapter also includes an
explanation of how to navigate the convenient display on your new Re-
mote Control unit.
It includes the following sections:
What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio - Video Receiver?
page 2
What’s on Remote Control Unit? page 4
LCD indicators page 6
How Do I Use Remote Control Unit? page 7

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Moving Around
1. STANDBY indicator
2. POWER ON/STANDBY button
3. PHONES jack
4. SPEAKERS A/B button
5. INPUT MODE button / RF ON/OFF button
6. CD 2/TAPE 2 MONITOR button / RF BAND button
7. LISTEN MODE button /DISPLAY button
8. THX button
9. SOUND button / SET UP button
10. MULTI CONTROL (Up/Down) buttons
11. P. CALL (Up/Down) buttons
12. MEMORY button
13. AUTO button
14. BAND button
15. AV AUX input jacks
What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio-
Video Receiver?
Standby mode
While the standby indicator of the unit is lit, a small amount of current is
flowing into the unit’s internal circuitry to back up the memory. This
condition is referred to as the standby mode of the unit. While the unit is
in the standby mode, it can be turned ON from the Remote Control unit.