podiumman
Auditioning
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- Aug 4, 2007
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- David Burgess
I have had a problem not really with this receiver, but with my Pioneer DV-563A DVD player which also does SACD and DVD-A. The problem has been that I'm not getting much output from the sub output of this when using the built in multi channel decoder, which of course you have to do for the high rez formats.
I'm wondering if there might be a solution lurking in my receiver, to wit:
It occurred to me, that maybe the best thing to do is to go into the setup menu of the Pioneer and just switch off the sub output altogether, assuming then that the bass and LFE would be rerouted to the main L/R front outputs and that the Yamaha would itself route the bass tones to the sub.
I did it, but I'm not sure it worked, I'm getting much less action from the sub (hard to tell if there's any, really, since the woofer vibrates some in sympathy with the sound waves from the main speakers [I'm gently feeling the cone to see how much it's working]) than compared to the sound in the DVD video mode (which, since it comes into the receiver via the optical cable - the Yamaha is doing all the work of splitting the sub signal from the rest).
One thing I'm wondering is whether or not, in my multi-channel input mode, my Yamaha really does split out bass signals from the main L/R front inputs and sends them to the sub.
The manual says it does not mix down for missing inputs or speakers, but then again, in the speaker setup for the receiver, it has a choice of routing bass/LFE through both main and sub. Question is, in this mode, does it mix down (mix up?) and send bass to the sub?
If anyone knows, again my Yamaha is a model RX-V4600
I'm wondering if there might be a solution lurking in my receiver, to wit:
It occurred to me, that maybe the best thing to do is to go into the setup menu of the Pioneer and just switch off the sub output altogether, assuming then that the bass and LFE would be rerouted to the main L/R front outputs and that the Yamaha would itself route the bass tones to the sub.
I did it, but I'm not sure it worked, I'm getting much less action from the sub (hard to tell if there's any, really, since the woofer vibrates some in sympathy with the sound waves from the main speakers [I'm gently feeling the cone to see how much it's working]) than compared to the sound in the DVD video mode (which, since it comes into the receiver via the optical cable - the Yamaha is doing all the work of splitting the sub signal from the rest).
One thing I'm wondering is whether or not, in my multi-channel input mode, my Yamaha really does split out bass signals from the main L/R front inputs and sends them to the sub.
The manual says it does not mix down for missing inputs or speakers, but then again, in the speaker setup for the receiver, it has a choice of routing bass/LFE through both main and sub. Question is, in this mode, does it mix down (mix up?) and send bass to the sub?
If anyone knows, again my Yamaha is a model RX-V4600