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I have an Onkyo HT-S5400, and have noticed the receiver gets quite warm, so I'd like to start powering it down at night/when I'm not using it. Is there any reason I shouldn't use a "smart plug" to simply cut power to it? I know some devices don't play well with being powered off by anything...

So since posting this I did purchase and have installed a receiver and speakers and things are MUCH better but still hitting a few fine-tuning issues. I will have to see if my receiver has Dialogue Lift, that would be extremely useful.

I've worked in IT/networking for 15 years so this is a question I'm actually qualified to answer. What you had before was a device that had a built-in ethernet switch at the far end. There was nothing special about that adapter, it just had a switch built in. There might still be something...

The HDMI output is not always attached to the TV. I frequently run with the TV off and using one of the monitors on my desk as a TV, hence the need to use a sound card.

Hi folks, So on the advice of this helpful forum I went and got a ONKYO HT-S5800 "home theater in a box" system. Finally got the last of the cables for it threaded today. I use a PC as my video source, so I attached the optical cable from my sound card to TV port on the reciever, and after some...

Ok, so I should look for that one specifically or one that lists those features. Awesome, thanks!! So glad I know what to look for now :D

So my question is: will the receiver from a HTiB still be sophisticated enough to do the audio-leveling that I need? That's really the biggest part of this whole project. Thanks!

That explains quite a bit. Yeah drove me absolutely nuts. I missed like half the plot constantly riding the remote - and this was back when I only had standard stereo audio!

Honestly? I have no idea. I'm very new to this sort of thing so I just sort of threw out a number. The receiver is the most important part for my specific needs - I'm having a lot of trouble with spikes and audio irregularity(see "Dialogue too quiet, explosions to loud"), and was advised that...

What are you looking for (Speakers, Subwoofer or Both)? Both + surround sound receiver Primary Use: 100% TV & Movies Desired Configuration: 5.1 Room Size: 12x12 Is the room open to other areas of your home: No Do you already have an AV receiver or amplifier? No What's your budget (low to...

Well, certainly plausible it may happen one day. It looks like my next step is to go post in the handydandy "what speaker or subwoofer should i buy" thread. All the advice is much appreciated!

The card I have will do that. And really the quality isn't an issue, I just need something(a receiver) to do the heavy lifting that the software is incapable of. Now for the receiver: is it possible to find one that just does audio? Some cursory exploration over the afternoon has revealed that...

This is exactly what I'd like to do. The "pc stuff" ain't workin for me so good :P lol, so I'd like to get a real home theater setup going.

The HTPC is a custom-built micro-atx in a quarter-depth 1U rack unit. The motherboard is taken from an industrial embedded PC environment; and while it does have built in sound, it's not what you'd call "superior". Fitting a PCI-e card, while possible, would be a bit of a challenge, and I'll...

I'm perfectly willing to invest in a good system if it'll solve these problems. It won't be right away but I've been fighting this for years and its aggrivating.

That sounds like pretty much exactly what I am looking for! I'll have to start researching/shopping. Could I hypothetically get a standalone receiver and attach it to my sound card via the S/PDIF? Or would I need to use the HDMI cable? I have an elaborate matrix swticher configuration that...

Is there maybe a standalone device that'll do this? And does there simply not exist some kind of limiter that can stop the speakers from emiting sounds over a certain DB?

I have done this and it's helped helped some. The main problem is so many things are mastered differently that what works for one thing may not work for the next. I'm hoping there is a solution where I don't need to stop and make adjustments every time something new comes on. The sound card is...

I don't yet have an actual receiver, just a 5.1 surround sound card attached to a computer, and a 5.1 speaker system. The computer is my source for everything(it acts as dvd player, streaming media, etc; dedicated home theater PC). However if a dedicated receiver can do a better job managing...

I did that. I put the first booster 1ft from the source. Every device in the chain is supposed to be a booster. Of course, every device is also supposed to spoof EDID to the computer, and not a single one does. Go figure.

I imagine I'm not the first person to run into this, but I am having a lot of trouble with dialogue being nearly inaudible, but sound effects/explosions/music being "wake up the neighbors loud". I tend to hit this most often watching old B-movies on streaming services(the kind of stuff that did...

So anticlimactically enough, it seems moving the repeater one step further back, behind the final matrix, has resolved everything. I've had stable video for hours now. Hurray! Going to order a second repeater for the second 4k screen, 2k signals are good. I think everything is now resolved, and...

So a dedicated(and highly-rated) 4k signal booster arrived today and has not helped. The main workstation isn't just blinking in and out, it's actually loosing the monitor. This is despite being connected through 4 seperate devices that are supposed to be spoofing edids. The current...

after a lot of experimentation I have confirmed that the 2k sources are all stable and working perfectly. The downscaled 4k sources even work fine on the 2k screens. But the 4k sources on 4k displays are very unstable. I have a 4k amplifier on the way, lets see how that does.

Well, we have success... sorta but not really? After 2 days of re-configuring(I know I should have done some incremental tests) I have picture but its not stable. The main display blinks in and out. Sometimes it will eb stable for a while, then it blinks every few seconds. The new configuration...

awesome! That is just a tad more sophisticated than what I need but would do the job admirably. At least knowing such products exist will make my search a lot easier. So far the best idea I've been able to come up with was to use a spare 1/4th" audio cable I have on the install and run the...

Sadly I'm a few years out from new cables, but I promise not to cheap out on them next time(yeah... my 50-footers were about $12 each...). Actually I'll probably upgrade to HDMI-over-Cat6 eventually. Just in case anyone DOES want to delve into the madness of exactly what's going on... I have a...

You probably don't want to decipher exactly what I'm doing, madness lies that way. But I much appreciate the advice; I had always been told the exact opposite - that you amplify at the end. I've got some other scale tests I can work on but knowing that really changes my whole dynamic. In a good way.

Well that changes my whole dynamic! I was thinking about as a test getting another 50' cable of the same sort I've been using, and hooking that up to the switchers in-place, then into the monitor. That would give me a total run of over 100'; but if it works it would be a pretty good indicator...

I've tried using less sophisticated range-extenders and have used spliters as amplifiers with some success. Currently I usually need to have a powered spliter on the end of the cable before it goes into the mess of switchers if I want to get a 4K signal through. I'm assuming I would need to...