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Hi, I need to figure out how to best cable up the combination of my kit. I'm trying to avoid having to replace my existing home theatre sound system. I originally had the following: 42" Sony Bravia TV (did not support ARC, used digital output) Sony BDV-E4100 Home Cinema (recent purchase...

I've had a Sony portable Blu-ray player, model BDP-SX910, for a few years now, and I've found that only my noise-canceling headphones give me decent dialogue audio with it. (And only with the noise-canceling option activated.) Apple earbuds and other types of headphones don't work well. For...

I just started experiencing audio dropouts on my CX-A5000. It seems to happen only through HDMI, particularly with HD surround formats, such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio. The unit has no trouble with standard Dolby Digital or DTS formats, only the HD versions. The unit behaves as if...

I have a Pioneer receiver with two optical and two digital coaxial audio inputs. I need to replace the receiver, but it appears most audio receivers now only have one of each. Unfortunately I have a couple of devices that only have optical outputs and need to use two digital coaxial. So I'm...

does anyone know anything about this amp? - are they any good? as mentioned in previous threads my Marantz amp is playing up and this one (link below) looks good and is at a good price https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1640132713&archive=1 it may work out cheaper for me to buy a...

I have a setup I'm trying to get working at my house that's driving me bonkers. I have an in-wall receiver system upstairs in my house. It has available optical and analog input. I want to run a line-level signal from my main AV stack to it so both levels of house have the same thing playing...

I have an odd problem. My home theatre setup consists of a Yamaha HTR-5640 receiver (pre-HDMI), an LG 50" LCD TV 50LS4000 (not a smart TV), blu ray player and a Chromebox set up with Libreelec 8.2.4/Kodi Krypton 17.6. Because the receiver has no HDMI connections, and only 1 Toslink input, I have...

So...apparently 20 years is about enough time to elapse to really get me to want to upgrade a subwoofer. I'm currently running an Energy e:XL-S12 that I bought in the late 90s (or maybe early 00s I don't remember). It rumbles fine, but I never really felt it competed with other subs I'd heard in...

I have a (somewhat) older JVC 37" TV in the family room (JLC37BC3000). It has 2 audio choices for the optical audio, PCM and Dolby Digital, no HDMI out. My current soundbar is 2.1 but I really want a center channel for dialog. I'm looking at a Samsung 3.1 soundbar. However, I don't know (and...

My old Oppo 93 died so I bought a new Yamaha BD-A1060. The Yamaha does everything but DVD A's. I have quite a few from the old days. I looked online and someone said they do play DVD A's. Sure enough when I fired one up it played as a multi-PCM through my new Anthem. This is exactly what...

Hi guys, I got a lot of help from this forum when I put in my first home theater back in 2004. Have not been on the forum lately and now have a new project in front of me: Installing multi-media in the Gathering Space at our church. The room is half below ground, it's one of those setups...

Hello all! I have been reading these forums today and I must say, there are a lot of extremely knowledgeable people here! So, I thought this would be a perfect place to reach out for some thoughts and suggestions on my first HTS. Overview: I am looking for something on the mid-range as far as...

Hope the title isn't TOO confusing, but I certainly am right now. Started watching the My Bloody Valentine 3D remake, and had to mess with my Marantz SR7011 receiver beforehand- when my Oppo UDP-203 defaults to outputting PCM (so you get the menu sound effects), it puts out a regular 7.1 track...

Hi everyone, Might be a newbie question, but would love input from the forum. I recently rented a new Jeep Grand Cherokee and the audio was absolutely incredible. Playback was from my iPhone via Bluetooth and standard cable, but everything sounded amazing - full and deep with great highs even...

Hey guys, I recently installed a home theater in my basement. I have 1 HDMI, 1 coax, and 3 cat6 cables running from my tv location to the AV rack in a separate room. After installing my tv I found out that all of the HDMI ports on the tv are only “in” and the only “out” port is an optical audio...

My very old Denon receiver has never been able to handle HDCP, so I have never used the HDMI switcher built into the receiver and up until now it hasn't been a problem. I have always taken video sources directly into the Television and then whatever source I was using I would either take the...

Hi All, I'm hoping someone in this community might be able to help me. My sister went to view a house and it has built in speakers, wall controls and tv mounts. All the cables seem to feed back to a central closet but the original system/audio equipment has been removed - the cables are just...

hi all, iam planning to build my own dedicated budget home theatre. I have a few doubts. please help me. my room size is 20*12 feet. i have decided to buy a denon avr-x2400h av receiver. i bought a pair of pioneer sp-fs52 floor standing speakers. i plan to buy a pair of polk t15 bookshelf...

Greetings - Now that things are getting back to normal on the home front, I am starting a thread on something I always wanted to do: explore two channel audio while keeping the cost relatively affordable. This will be an on going thread, with some surprises in regards to speakers and...

Hi guys. I'm having the following issue. I recently moved to a new location. I previously had DirecTV, now I have Cable. Everything is working very well, with the exception of audio directly from the TV. Specifically, my Sony TV is a smart tv, and I use it for Netflix. I noticed after set-up...

Hey Guys.... first post on these forms....and would like to share my home theater setup. I am new to the high end sound setup, but just recently did over my basement and put some money into my audio system and now want to learn and make sure I am getting the most out of my new equipment. So what...

I hope I am not being redundant here as I don't want to waste people's time. I did do a search and not sure if my question has ever been addressed or answered. To say the least, I am confused as I don't want to SPLIT the audio, I only want the FULL audio to go to whatever device I choose. I...

I just got a 5.1 sound system but I can't find any way to get movies in 5.1 apart from DVD. I only have a pc. Is there any way to stream movies in 5.1 or even download them?

Hello, I have an audio question about my setup I'm hoping someone can help me with. I had my Vizio (M55-C2) setup with a direct cable feed and an optical cable to my Vizio Sound bar (SB3821). I use optical between the TV and the Soundbar as the Soundbar only has Coax, Optical, and RCA for...

Just got a Vizio sound bar - it can connect to the TV via HDMI ARC, which is convenient. I then connected a Blu-Ray (a PS3) to the TV via HDMI, with no separate audio out connection from the PS3 (because the HDMI ARC delivers the audio to the sound bar) HOWEVER....in doing this, I lose the...

I have recently purchased a brand new 65 inch ULED 4K TV (Hisense), and was surprised when attempting to play a 4K movie from my external hard drive connected to the TV, that the audio file was not supported. It's an mkv file, and it's in Dolby Atmos format. I have an Onkyo Dolby Atmos AV...

Not sure if this constitutes as a home theater, but if it is in the wrong location, just point me in the right direction. Although the title sounds simple, the configuration is a bit more complex. I have a very specific use case I would like to accomplish. I have a Lyriq home audio system being...

Hi all, I'm brand new here and am looking for some help/advice since I still have a lot to learn before I'll likely be able to return the favor and contribute to this community :) Anyway, I recently purchased a home that included built-in speakers indoors and outdoors (RCA inputs broken into a...

Hoping someone could help me out here :( So whenever I play a CD with my Blu-ray player, the speaker seems to always skip the first couple of seconds of the opening track. Any idea what the problem could've been?

Anyone planning on attending the New York Audio Show in NYC? We're exhibiting with two rooms again this year. New York Audio Show returns to New York City, NY from November 10th - 12th 2017. The show will be hosted at the beautiful Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South, one of New York’s most...