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This sounds like a confusing mess.

I think you could simplify the conversation by say.


If you are setting up for 5.1 surround. No matter where the surround speakers are put, you use the surround jack on your Pioneer.

if you are setting up for 7.1 surround. You need to have the speakers hooked into your surround jack on the side walls. You need to have the speakers hooked into your rear jack on the back wall behind the seating.



if you don't hook them up this way then your Pioneer will not know where to decode the correct sound to. If you have the Pioneer setup for 5.1, all the surround sound goes to the surround jack.