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Originally Posted by Linksys 845c
can this be the reason I don't really hear a difference whether the speakers are set to large or small in the player?
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You really wouldn't expect to hear much of a difference either way. If you set it to small, the player rolls off the bass in those channels and sends it to the sub, so the Onkyo doesn't have to anymore. If you use the same 80hz frequency crossover basically you are just creating a steeper rolloff effect. I would use "large" so that I could utilize the Onkyo's Audyssey equalization feature, which sometimes recommends different settings from 80hz so it can better tweak for effects of your room & the speaker's placement within it.
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That leads me to some more questions for you, if you don't mind...by keeping the Panasonic on MULTI CHANNEL speaker output, when playing multichannel PCM tracks, my receiver and player do the HDMI handshake and then "MULTICH" reads on my Onkyo's display, with "HDMI/MULTICHANNEL/PCM" illuminated above it...is this the correct listening mode for these tracks?
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That's correct.
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And do you think future Blu ray players should clear up this LFE bug? I suppose it wouldn't make a difference if I replace this player with one that bitstreams the new codecs, but if I did that, would I lose all these problems regarding PCM, loss of LFE, sizes, etc?
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They fixed it in the BD30 with firmware. If you are already beyond the return period, I'd just sit tight for a few years, wait for a cheap profile 2.0 player, full audio capabilities, and perhaps improved SD-DVD performance. Maybe if Oppo releases a player ...
I don't think it's worth a ton of effort for TrueHD etc., I only got my new receiver with TrueHD etc. because my ancient receiver had only 2 digital inputs & was Dolby Digital only which would have been useless with the HD-DVD I had which downconverted tracks to DTS but not DD.
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So should PCM Downconversion be on or off based on my system? I keep hearing "Definitely OFF!"
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Off is correct.
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And what about BD Function Sound...should this be off too, as I have been told?
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This is just the overlayed menu beeps etc.? It really shouldn't matter either way.
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Why does the manual for this machine say by selecting "PCM" output for any of the codecs it supports, this sends a 2-channel mix of the track out?
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From my post above:
I believe the references in the manual to only being able to output 2 ch PCM are because of older versions of the firmware that could only decode to 2 chs, doesn't apply to current firmware.