Top 20 Pioneer VSX-305 Receiver Questions & Answers

It sounds like its not reading the disc, most the time that is caused by a bad processor and that isn't something you can fix yourself

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Link for the service manual: http://elektrotanya.com/pioneer_vsx-305_405.pdf/download.html On page 50 of the manual (36 of the pdf) it says for the "Sub woofer pre-out jack (Not available on the VSX-305 model) If you want to boost the low frequencies, connect to a subwoofer power amplifier" Your model will not drive a sub-woofer with out another amp. His sub may be a powered sub?

try a different sub first, the fuse difference is not crucial but should try to use the one recomended by manufaturer

you have to be more specific

Go to eservice: http://www.eserviceinfo.com/index.php?what=search2 and search for VSX-305. You can downlaod the manual. The service manual is widely found with a google search but is also listed at the eservice website. Oh, Ebay has the service manuals as well.

It is likely failing due to age.Cold solders fail, corrosion can cut a connection, a capacitor can harden and fail... a myriad of things can happen in time. Repairing it will cost more than an inexpensive replacement. The same receiver can be had on ebay from $60 up (with shipping). It is a cost benefit issue at this point.

what ya need to do is go buy ya a can of air from either walgreens or walmart or somewhere that sells can of air and when ya get home take the top cover off and spray it out with the can of air and that should fix it cause it probably has a lot of dust in it my uncles was doin the same thing and that was what was wrong with it

I have never seen RCA to digital conversion, and if it did exist you would have to convert from digital to analog in order for this to work, the sound quality would be degraded and unreliable, plus sound level would drop.

Search eBay for "Pioneer vsx-305 remote" and check the 'Include description' box. Many available.

There are independent relays for the speaker A and B switching.Best place to start would be from the relay. When you select A do you hear a click, if not relay is not switching. The circuit involved is a small transistor , a low value resistor ( could be the culprit ) and a shunt diode.

Rotate the volume knob. Contrary to popular belief, manual switches on the front of a unit DO have functions.

Component cables don't have the ability to carry decrypted HD info.

HDCP is "High Definition Copy Protection"...In theory, it prevents you from running the HDMI cable out of your receiver, and into a recording device, thereby recording HD content without a license for it.

HDCP handshaking is done between devices that run HDMI, or DVI.

If you're running component from your Cable box, and then HDMI out to your TV, then the content you're carrying from the Cable box may not be getting decrypted properly when it gets upscaled onto the HDMI port from Component.

IT could also simply be that you're using an HDMI 1.1 or HDMI 1.2 cable, which may not be able to carry the high bandwidth stream of your Receiver and TV.

Please be sure that all HDMI devices can support the same HDMI version, and also be sure your HDMI cable is labled "HDMI 1.x compliant". . .e.g. if your TV and Amp support HDMI 1.2, make sure you're also using an HDMI 1.2 Cable.

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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.

Channels are not individually fused. Carefully examine all your connections and settings. If you had the unit unplugged for a while it may have lost all your custom settings.

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.

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.

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GOOD LUCK !

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