20 Most Recent Pioneer VSX-305 Receiver - Page 3 Questions & Answers

i have the manual but am using it now. if i could get you a copy it would be fine

I think you may have the same problem I do. If I turn the volume all the way up I can hear the music, but barely. I get same results with a tape deck, CD player, using one of those two in the phono input and with different speakers. I thought that maybe the large transistors attached to the heat sink may have blown, but I just unsoldered them all and checked them and they are all good. Now I have to solder them back in to try something else. This was a pain to do since the ribbon cables don't unplug from the board. This is not a solution, but I'll post any other results too.

Sounds like you may have smoked your output stage in the amplifier...this can be caused by using defective speakers, hooking it up while it is on, or too much volume..Can also be caused by power surges...You will probably need to have a service man check it out to make sure this is the problem.

I don't know where you are, but if you're in the US (and guessing by your username, I'll bet you are), Radio Shack carries them. You could mail order them if you aren't near a store. In a pinch, you could also use a 6.5 amp fuse in place of the 6.3 amp. That's only 200 mA (milliamps, or thousandths of an amp) larger, which is only a small percent increase.

GO TO THIS SITE AND GET YOUR MANUAL -- IT WILL TAKE UP TO 2 WEEKS TO GET IT , BUTS ITS BETTER THAN NOTHING

GOOD LUCK !

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The front speakers go into the sub in the two bottom inputs from the receiver. the two upper are outputs to the actual speakers,SOYOU RUN RUN THE FRONT SPEAKER WIRES FROM THE RECEIVER TO THE INPUT OR LOWER CLIPS ON SUB,THEN RUN WIRES FROM THE OUTPUT OR UPPER CLIPS FROM SUB TO THE FRONT SPEAKERS.

if the unit detects a speaker or speaker wire short it will go into protect..will it stay on with no speakers attached? if so theirs a good chance the unit is ok and 1 or speakers or their wires is at fault

You can get fuses from any electronic parts shop, such as Maplin (UK) or Radio Shack (USA). I would get a few, because chances are the fuse did not just blow because of a bad speaker wire! Fuses are there to protect the device from an overload (which would cause a fire). The mostly likely cause of your fuse blowing is that your wire shorted out an output transistor on the channel the speaker was connected to and the transistor is acting like a piece of wire now!
If you have an Ohm meter I would put it's probes on the terminals of the transistors on the heat sink. You will soon know, as it will be just like you have touched the meter's probes together!

did you have a speaker on that output already? if not you might have to enable the speaker output in the speaker setup of your amplifier, refer to the amp manual to get these posedures to enable it into the surround system, if yo here a lot of vocals cominig out of the left and right while watching maaterial with surround suong then this backs up enabling it.

cheers

red wire to red connector and black wire to black connector?

have you checked the fader control?.

Are the speakers good and does the impedance match ( 4,8 or 16 ohm)- check at speaker output connectors for proper impedance to use.
Check also if the sound from the headphones is good (with speakers off).Check if the problem left and right
What are you using as a signal source(CD ,tape, Satellite box)? try changing sources to see if distortion improves.
If checking all of the above does not improve/change your distortion then the problem is internal to the amplifier and could be outputs are blown or internal power supply problem. Post back with questions
Hope this helped.

Press the "Mute" button on the receivers remote control again and it will return to it's normal state. Hope this helps.

There's a reason they don't want you running parallel speakers - possible impedance being too low. You would have to CHEAT and attach them both to the same terminals to hear them at the same time. Then you run the risk of presenting too low an impedance load to the amplifier and possibly having it go into protection (turning the speakers off) sometimes. It might also just work if you're lucky and not trying to entertain the neighbors. ;-)

I had the same problem. I picked up 3 fuses to replace inside the Amp. and it has worked ever since.

Do you havea manual for this that you could send my way via email?

can i hook a avr2500 to a avr589 with the preouts and use the power from the 2500 like it was a amp