He re-formatted the drive. Tried again. This time, a different message: “CURRENT VER: 1-321-089. NEW VER: 1-325-112.”
The blue ring of light around the volume knob illuminated. The relay clicked. The display read: “HDMI 1 – 4K/60 – HDR.”
But another user, RetroTechRescue , offered a cryptic solution: “Look for the ‘Pioneer_EU_FW_2017_legacy.zip’ on the Internet Archive. Use a USB 2.0 drive, 4GB or smaller. Format FAT32. Rename the file to ‘AVR_LX57.bin’. Pray.” pioneer sc-lx57 firmware update
He flipped the master power switch. Counted to ten. Turned it back on.
The HDMI handshake with the new 8K TV kept failing. The screen flickered. Then, silence. He re-formatted the drive
The fan inside the SC-LX57 spun up to a jet-engine whine. The front display cycled through alien hieroglyphs: WRITING DSP1… ERASING FLASH… DO NOT POWER OFF.
“COMPLETED. POWER OFF.”
“Do not attempt,” one user named AudioPhile_Dad had written. “The 2015 update bricked my unit. The DSP chip overheats.”