There was a post a couple months back at the HT Spot, where an ISF guy that specializes in Pioneer spoke with some Pio guys at an industry meet. He asked about the crossover, and was told that there would be no update to the firmware.
I suppose that this could change, but I don't forsee much action to update a $175 player.
The argument put forth by Pio was that they expected the 563 to be purchased by folks with very small mains. Obviously, they guessed wrong, but the only way out is either a receiver or pre/pro that does a crossover on the 5.1 ins (rare, but Outlaw and HK make such a product) OR get an ICBM, or say screw it and buy a more expensive player that gets it right (I just read that the Denon 2200, at about $500, does do BM correctly).
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But it's certainly not just the one poster who is having a problem. In fact, I'm kind of suspect of anyone who says they DON'T have the problem. |
None of this is really news. Uni player owners have been dealing with this since the first uni players came out. The situation here though is unique in that you guys are getting NO bass, as opposed to very weak bass.
But, I have not seen anything to indicate if this was tested with Avia, VE, or what have you. There are certain quirks with BM in some of these players that do NOT apply any BM with 5.0 and 4.0 material. That could play a part.
And the internal test tones are known to be faulty. Someone really needs to test with the Chesky Ultimate DVD. That has legit 5.1 DVD-A test tones.
A setting of all small, sub on, levels set in the player so that the sub is at +6 and the mains are at -4 normally produces proper levels between the channels when tested with test discs AND with actual program material.
But, if you guys have everything set right, and checked and double checked, then maybe Pio has screwed something in in manufacturing.
BGL