Pioneer SC-LX90 - SUSANO High Definition Amplifier

DLNA stands for the Digital Living Network Alliance, and is an organisation of consumer electronics, computing and mobile device companies.

Simply put, DLNA enables the easy sharing of digital media through a wired or wireless network in your home. This means that you can enjoy content stored on your home PC (music, films and photographs, depending on the model you choose) via your amplifier and on your KURO TV.

The DLNA certification logo (it's the logo on the right) makes it easy to find products that comply with the DLNA Interoperability Guidelines.

THX, the inspiration of George Lucas, was originally created for optimum performance in movie theatres.

THX Certified products guarantee superior performance and ensure accurate reproduction of the theatre experience in your home.

To be THX Certified requires adherence to rigorous guidelines for sound purity, power output and processing capabilities.

 AIR Studios Tuning is a benchmark of high fidelity sound. What it means is that engineers from AIR Studios have put the system through rigorous tuning, determined to deliver audio output that is as pure and precise to the original as possible.

AIR Studios was founded by Sir George Martin, legendary Beatles producer and Academy Award-nominated composer. Sir Martin is also one of music's most versatile and imaginative talents.

Established in 1969, London’s AIR Studios is now a state-of-the-art recording complex with matchless facilities for film scoring, rock, pop, classical and orchestral work, postproduction and live events.

Many of the world's most popular and renowned musical talents have worked in this unique and inspirational recording environment.

Put simply, HD Digital Film Direct means “Master Quality”: what you see and hear on your flat-screen is exactly as the film-makers intended. Absolutely true to the original.

We’ve applied this standard as a label (see the logo on the right) to those of our products that accurately handle 24fps (frames per second) movie content; this will help you make the right product choice for the true HD movie experience.

Films are typically shot, developed and encoded for cinema reproduction at 24fps.

Regular PAL broadcasting and DVD have always played these images back at 25 fps (50Hz).

This has the effect of speeding up images and raising the pitch of sounds and voices.

But, the new high definition discs, like Blu-ray Disc, offer you access to a digitised ”true to the original” copy of the theatrical movie content.

We offer a product range that is perfectly matched for bringing the real cinema experience into your home: amplifiers, Blu-ray Disc players, home cinema systems and flat-screen TVs with our trademark screening of 24fps source input at 72Hz (3 images displayed per original frame).

MCACC stands for Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System.

It's an automatic sound field adjustment system that enables you to precision-tune your system to your living room, just like a sound professional, but with minimum effort.

A microphone monitors the sound environment and an equaliser (either 5 or 9-band, depending on which model of amplifier you have) optimally adjusts the sound parameters.

The result sounds like a professional recording engineer has fine-tuned your amplifier or home cinema system.

MCACC was created as a joint effort between ourselves and professional sound engineers at AIR Studios; it's unique to Pioneer, so you won't find it on any other products.

See how MCACC works

Put simply, KURO LINK means that you are able to control basic functions of compatible Pioneer Audio/Visual devices* (such as your Blu-ray player, amplifier or DVD recorder), with your KURO flat-screen TV remote control.

One remote for your full entertainment system.

KURO LINK is made possible via the single HDMI cable connection between your flat-screen TV and your other entertainment devices.

* Other brands of TV and home entertainment components also work with the KURO LINK function (here’s a list)

Deep Colour ensures that all colour transitions and gradients are reproduced with the highest level of precision.

It enables increased contrast ratio, eliminates on-screen colour banding (for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colours) and can represent many times more shades of gray between black and white.

So what you see is as natural and lifelike as possible.

Pure Digital Audio Transmission

The realism of high resolution DVD Audio and SACD audio is astonishing. But some of the fine details are lost in the digital-to-analogue-conversion (and vice-versa) during digital signal processing. That's where i.LINK comes into play.

i.LINK is an advanced resolution digital audio interface. This means that all the original details are preserved; only one digital cable is needed to connect the amplifier with any iLINK-equipped source (for example a DVD-Audio or SACD player).

iLINK reduces jitter arising from the signal transmission to an absolute minimum and DVD Audio and SACD reproduction is as true to the original source as possible.