Brand NEW! The VSX-LX305 ELITE 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 theater, just as the filmmakers and sound editors intended. Featuring two HDMI-out options and 100-watts of continuous power per channel, the VSX-LX 305 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 Elite VSX-LX305 is truly next level. 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-channel 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 These products support 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 theater experience possible. Pioneer?s sole focus for more than 80 years has been audio and visual technologies, which allows us to concentrate on what matters most: recreating music and film scores in your home as though you?re in the recording studio. Pioneer continues to innovate with many groundbreaking concepts which have completely changed the way we enjoy our music and videos. 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 Elite?s IMAX Mode is meticulously optimized to play digitally remastered content to deliver the best viewing and listening experience on Earth. Built-In Streaming Music Services and Faster Wifi 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 favorite 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 favorites 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. Amplification Channels - 9 Amplification Type - Direct Energy 225 W/ch - (6 ohms, 1 kHz, THD 10 %, 1ch Driven) 100 W/ch - (8 ohms, 20 Hz-20 kHz, THD 0.08 %, 2ch Driven FTC) Audio Features IMAX Enhanced - Yes Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround Upmixer supports DTS Formats - Yes Reflex Optimizer - Yes Dolby Atmos Height Virtualizer - Yes Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus - Yes DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS 96/24, DTS-ES, DTS Express - Yes DSD Disc (SACD) Playback - via HDMI (2.8 MHz/2 ch, 5.1 ch) Digital Quad-Core 32-bit DSP (Cirrus Logic) + Aureus? floating-point DSP (TI) - Yes 192 kHz/24-bit D/A Conversion for Hi-Res Audio - Yes Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) on HDMI Out (Main) - Yes Advanced MCACC Auto Room Tuning - Auto Phase Control Plus ? Subwoofer EQ ? Multi-point Standing Wave Control Dirac Live Room Correction - Yes Advanced Sound Retriever (2ch) - Yes Advanced Surround Modes - Classical, Unplugged, Entertainment Show, Drama, Advanced Game, Action, Rock/Pop, Sports, Extended Stereo, Mono Music, Front Stage Surround Advance Video Features Support HDMI 2.1*1 with 8K - VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode), QFT (Quick Frame transport), DSC (Display Stream Compression), and QMS (Quick Media Switching) pass-through Supports HDR10+ - HDR10, and HLG; 8K/60p (4:2:0/10-bit), 8K/30p (4:4:4/10-bit, 4:2:2/12-bit), 4K/120p (4:4:4/10-bit, 4:2:2/12-bit), 4K60p (4:4:4/12-bit) and BT.2020 color; DeepColor? (36-bit), ?x.v.Color?, LipSync, and HDCP 2.3 Dolby Vision Compatible - Yes Ultra HD Upscaling (4K to 8K, 1080p to 8K/4K) - Yes Home Network Features Works with Alexa supporting multi-room music - Yes Works with Hey Google and Chromecast built-in - Yes DTS Play-Fi with Pioneer Music Control App - Yes Apple AirPlay 2 with Siri Voice Control - Yes Works with SONOS supporting multiple Sonos Connect control and Volume Pass Through mode - Yes Amazon Music HD*3, Pandora, Spotify, TIDAL, and Deezer Hi-Fi Music-Streaming Services Ready - Yes Internet Radio with TuneIn - Yes Hi-Res Audio File Playback via USB/Network - Yes Up to 192 kHz/24-bit ALAC*5, AIFF, FLAC, WAV (RIFF) and 11.2 MHz DSD* - Yes Convenience Features Personal Preset - Yes Dialog Enhancement - Yes Dual Band (5 GHz/2.4 GHz) Wi-Fi Built-in - Yes Bluetooth Wireless Technology - Transmitter/Receiver (Version: 4.2, Profile: A2DP 1.2/AVRCP 1.3, Codec: SBC/aptX/aptX HD (TX), SBC/AAC(RX)) Built-in Pioneer Remote App - Ready for Multi-room Entertainment Control and Network Streaming User-Friendly GUI with System Setup Menu - Yes On-Screen Information for Audio, Video and Network - Yes Web Setup - Yes Auto Power Off in HDMI Standby Through - Yes AM/FM Tuner 40 Presets - Yes Sleep Timer - Yes User-Friendly Simple Remote Control Yes Front Terminals HDMI 1 In - Yes USB 1 In for USB Drive - Yes MCACC/Dirac Live Web Setup MIC - Yes Audio 1 In - Yes (2ch) Phones 1 Out - Yes Rear Terminals HDMI 6 In - 4 Assignable HDMI 2 Out - 1 for MAIN, 1 for SUB/ZONE 2 Ethernet 1 In - Yes USB 1 In for USB Drive - Yes Audio 4 In - Assignable Phono (MM) 1 In - Yes Digital Coaxial 1 In - Yes Digital Optical 1 In - Yes Subwoofer 2 Pre Out - Yes ZONE 2 Pre/Line Out/ZONE B Line Out - Yes Speaker 9 ch Out - FRONT, CENTER, SURROUND, HEIGHT 1/Bi-AMP/ZONE 2, SURROUND BACK/HEIGHT 2/ZONE 3 IR 1 In/1 Out - Yes 12 V Trigger 2 Out - Yes RS-232C - Yes FM/AM Antenna - Yes Specifications Power Requirements - AC 120 V, 60 Hz Power Consumption/Standby - 750 W/0.1 W Dimensions - 17-1/8 x 6-13/16 x 14-9/16 inches (435 x 173 x 370.5 mm) Weight - 22.9 lbs. (10.4 kg) Carton Dimensions - 21-1/8 x 10-7/16 x 18-1/16 inches (536 x 265 x 458 mm) Carton Included Weight - 29.8 lbs. (13.5 kg) - All international buyers are responsible for all tax, duties and/or customs fees.