This is my first post here so please bare with me. I just purchased a very expensive "High End" surround sound system and it looks and sounds like the cheep Out-of-the-Box system I just used it to replace. I pray im doing something wrong.
Heres what I bought:
Pioneer Elite VSX-01TXH A/V Reciever
Definitive Technologies 600 5.1 Speaker system
Im hooking this all up to my 52" Sony Bravia LCD Full HD 1080p.
Problems:
-Sound from the rear speakers is almost unnoticable.
-The picture looks no different 1080p upscaling mode than it does in the 720p. The salesman said playing my Sony standard dvd player through the Pioneer system would give me 1080p and I woulnt be able to tell a difference between it and a blu-ray. Im not a moron, and I dont really expect that kind of quality, but I figured it would at least give me somthing noticeably different.
Issues:
-The house was pre wired with speakers in the ceiling but they were crap and I pulled them out and hung the rear speakers from the ceiling using the same wiring. THe guage looks to be 16 and its traveling about 40ft. There is a possibility I have the red and black swapped as the wires weren't color coded. I can check that with a meter but dont want to go through the hassle if I need to switch out the wire with say a 10 or 12 guage?
-The way Im running the cables is the DVD Player is hooked up with Component cables for video and an optical cable for sound. The Cable/DVR is hooked up the same way. I can use HDMI but I wanted to be sure the sound was going through the optical cable as I believe those to be the best for surround.
One reason I believe somthing is wrong is because when the audio system is on AUTO mode it always plays on Stereo and I have to manually change it to surround sound. When I do this it sounds NOTHING like the sound I got from the theater store demonstration room.
Please help me if you can. Thanks
Heres what I bought:
Pioneer Elite VSX-01TXH A/V Reciever
Definitive Technologies 600 5.1 Speaker system
Im hooking this all up to my 52" Sony Bravia LCD Full HD 1080p.
Problems:
-Sound from the rear speakers is almost unnoticable.
-The picture looks no different 1080p upscaling mode than it does in the 720p. The salesman said playing my Sony standard dvd player through the Pioneer system would give me 1080p and I woulnt be able to tell a difference between it and a blu-ray. Im not a moron, and I dont really expect that kind of quality, but I figured it would at least give me somthing noticeably different.
Issues:
-The house was pre wired with speakers in the ceiling but they were crap and I pulled them out and hung the rear speakers from the ceiling using the same wiring. THe guage looks to be 16 and its traveling about 40ft. There is a possibility I have the red and black swapped as the wires weren't color coded. I can check that with a meter but dont want to go through the hassle if I need to switch out the wire with say a 10 or 12 guage?
-The way Im running the cables is the DVD Player is hooked up with Component cables for video and an optical cable for sound. The Cable/DVR is hooked up the same way. I can use HDMI but I wanted to be sure the sound was going through the optical cable as I believe those to be the best for surround.
One reason I believe somthing is wrong is because when the audio system is on AUTO mode it always plays on Stereo and I have to manually change it to surround sound. When I do this it sounds NOTHING like the sound I got from the theater store demonstration room.
Please help me if you can. Thanks
