Pioneer VSX-LX305 9.2 Ch AV Receiver

VSX-LX305 9.2 Channel Network AV Receiver

The VSX-LX305 9.2-Channel AV Receiver brings multi-dimensional excitement to your home entertainment. Featuring DIRAC Live® Room Correction, the VSX-LX305 is designed and built to be the cornerstone to delivering the ultimate experience for your movies, music, and gaming.

IMAX® Enhanced means movies, concerts, and streaming games are delivered with heart-pounding sound and crisp visual enhancements to bring the world into your home theatre, just as the filmmakers and sound editors intended. Featuring two HDMI-out options and 100-watts of continuous power per channel, the VSX-LX305 AV receiver delivers uncompressed HDMI 8K/4K transfer at 40 Gbps, increasing the bandwidth over its predecessors and maximizing Next-Gen Gaming features.

Stream songs throughout your home and watch whatever you want in multiple rooms in up to 8K HD. The Pioneer VSX-LX305 is truly next level.

This product supports all specs for the 2021 HDMI 2.1 certification. Please ensure your source, TV and HDMI cables are compatible to get the most robust home theatre experience possible.

Note: Product images are of the USA model. The amber coloured LED's on the primary display and corresponding text are unique to the USA variant. The Australian version of this product is themed with white LED's and text. Other than this, all other features remain exactly the same.

Key Features

• Dirac Live Room Correction
• HDMI 2.1
• Ultimate 4K Gaming Experience
• IMAX Enhanced
• Discrete HDMI Zone 2 Switching
• 100 Watts per channel (8 ohms, 20 Hz-20 kHz, THD 0.08%, 2-channels driven)
• Subwoofer 2 Pre Out
• Bi-directional Bluetooth with aptX HD
• Built-in music streaming including Spotify and TIDAL
• Works with Sonos Certified
• Immersive sound from your TV apps
• Advanced MCACC
• Roon Tested
• DTS Play-Fi

Dirac Live Room Correction

State-of-the-art digital room correction technology improves overall audio performance across the full frequency band with no additional upgrade required. Dirac Live automatically calibrates sound in your room using either your smartphone and the included wired mic, or go virtually wireless with the Dirac Live PC or MacOS * application, and a 3rd party USB mic (not included). Dirac Live unlocks your loudspeakers’ full potential in any listening space and delivers a uniquely pristine listening experience.*

* Device must be connected to the internet and the same network as your AVR.

HDMI® 2.1 with 8K

HDMI® 2.1 is the most recent update of the HDMI® spec and supports a range of higher video resolutions and refresh rates including 8K60 and 4K120, as well as Dynamic HDR formats. 8K delivers a super-immersive viewing experience with 2x the horizontal and vertical resolution of 4K, and 4 times as many pixels; and combined with 60Hz refresh rate enables smooth and sharp viewing of content with high-speed action. HDMI 2.1 with 8K ensures your system is ready for the clearest and cleanest picture available both now and down the road.

Ultimate 4K Gaming Experience

4K/120 enables ultra-fast motion UHD images to be crisp and razor-sharp; and sports, action movies, and high-performance gaming benefit significantly. This receiver supports higher performance from streaming devices like the latest Apple TV.

IMAX® Enhanced Mode

IMAX digitally re-mastered content for the home environment is created to provide the same sharp 4K HDR images and powerful sound just as the filmmaker intended. Pioneer’s IMAX Mode is meticulously optimised to play digitally remastered content to deliver the best viewing and listening experience on Earth.

Built-In Streaming Music Services and Faster Wi-Fi

Access to Spotify®, TIDAL, Deezer, TuneIn, and Pandora® are built into the system.

Bi-Directional Bluetooth® Wireless Technology

This AVR can send and receive audio via Bluetooth wireless technology. Stream from your device to the receiver using SBC or AAC codecs, or transmit audio playing through the AVR to compatible wireless headphones using SBC, aptX™, or aptX HD codecs including 24-bit audio over aptX HD. The improved data transfer capabilities of the latest generation of Bluetooth ensure clear and reliable sound reproduction so you hear your favourite songs just as the recording engineer intended.

Built-In Multi-Zone Streaming and Voice Control

This AV Receiver easily integrates into your existing Smart Home ecosystem, including Apple AirPlay, Alexa, Google apps, and more. You get a highly capable and compatible network device that can stream your favourites wherever you want in your home with up to 8K60 resolution.**

* A third-party AI device is required for voice commands (sold separately).

** 8K60 only valid for Zone 1. Zone 2 will only produce 4K120 resolution when two separate HDMI sources are used.

Works with Sonos Certified

This receiver can join your existing Sonos Home Sound System, or be the start of a new one, just by pairing it with a Sonos Port* This Works With Sonos Certified AVR offers a best-in-class tie-in to the Sonos ecosystem, waking, changing inputs, and playing at the volume you want using the Sonos Volume-Pass Through feature from the Sonos app*.

* Sonos Port required and sold separately.

MCACC Auto Room Tuning Featuring Auto Phase Control Plus

MCACC adjusts the sound according to the listening room and speakers, and also creates clearer sound by suppressing the standing waves that occur between walls or ceiling and floor. Measurement of up to nine positions can be saved for a wide listening area. Auto Phase Control Plus* makes real-time analysis of the phase difference, and automatically compensates the gap between the LFE and main signals, providing strong bass and clear high-frequency sound.

Roon-Tested

Roon plays to thousands of USB, AirPlay, and Chromecast devices, but Roon-Tested devices are profiled by the Roon team to ensure simple setup and effortless daily use. If you own a Roon-Tested device, you can have the confidence that you will enjoy the best possible experience with it.

DTS Play-Fi

DTS Play-Fi* wirelessly streams any audio content from any compatible mobile device to your AV Receiver and DTS Play-Fi compatible audio systems, creating a multi-room system in your home. You can stream different sources to different speakers at the same time from the DTS Play-Fi app.