Hey all,
Forgive me if this sounds like a really noob question.
I am currently running a 13 year old reciever without HDMI but a new tv with HDMI....so I have HDMI from my TV to my cable box and HDMI from my TV to my blu ray, and separate optical from each of those to my reciever. Everything works great.
However, my receiver is on the fritz so I am buying a new DENON x4200w. Here is where my 13 years out of the game affect me. Do I just use HDMI for everything right into the receiver and then one HDMI from reciever out to TV via ARC?
Will this allow me to get surround sound from everything? Or do I still need to use the optical cables?
So I have hooked everything up and got everything working. HOWEVER, using the HDMI cables from my tv and blu ray directly to the receiver is really making the video picture pretty awful...very very grainy compared to having the HDMI go from the Blu ray to the TV instead. Same for the cable box. The video is definitely worse than if I didn't go through the receiver.
However, if I go back to the way it was with my old receiver (only having optical audio going through receiver and having HDMI from BR to TV and cable box to TV), I'll lose the BR audio right?
Am I missing something?
Also, I can't seem to get the receiver to play 6.1 DTS HD at all. Is there a trick to getting it to play? I am playing Return of The King and all that is displaying is MULTI CH IN 7.1
If you use too thin gauge HDMI it can cause distortion and "snow" or sparklies, this is especially likely with long runs or a loose HDMI plug connection not seated firmly in the jack properly.
The way people above me said to do it is correct. If it isn't working this correct way, figure out what's wrong and fix it, but don't go back to the old way you were using.
That's a (rarely used) mode on the Denon you need to switch away from, that was used before HDMI carried everything and people instead used tons of RCA analog cords instead. The options might be on a button and you want "HDMI" or "HDMI/DIGITAL IN" mode. You may also have to set this up in a menu. The manual should talk about it. Now retracted.
That's a (rarely used) mode on the Denon you need to switch away from, that was used before HDMI carried everything and people instead used tons of RCA analog cords instead. The options might be on a button and you want "HDMI" or "HDMI/DIGITAL IN" mode. You may also have to set this up in a menu. The manual should talk about it.
No, that means his player was converting the signal instead of the avr, and was sending 7.1 LPCM to the avr. He fixed it by changing the output of the player to bitstream or its equivalent...
Got it working. It was a setting on my Blu ray player. Note I'm getting "dts HD mstr" on the display
I will say one thing though, my 13 year old Harman kardon receiver sounds so much better for music than this Denon x4200
I did the calibration but it seems that there is no bass at all.
As for the graininess, I checked the connections, they seem OK. The cables are OK, so I'm really disappointed with the video. I am tempted to go back to the old setup, it's that much of a difference
So here is where it's going to get a bit confusing. I set up the audessy with my sub initially like I was instructed. However, for the most part, I don't use my sub too much at this point. So I set all my speakers to large and turned off the sub.
I put in some CDs that I know like the back of my hand, and I found that they have very little bass.
On my old receiver, I set the speakers to large, with the sub OFF, and the sound from the speakers was rich and full. Now there is very little bottom end.
Could this just be the way this receiver sounds?
Anything I can do?
Yes, I believe direct mode is set to auto?
Again, I'm new at all this.
Thanks
Regarding these songs you know like the back of your hand, how do you know that the way you learned and memorized what they sound like wasn't with some artificial emphasis of the bass either due to a setting on the previous receiver or a characteristic of its particular sound (fancy people call that a "transfer function") and now hearing them with the bass reduced is actually a more faithful and neutral depiction of how the songs sounded to the recording engineers who originally made them?
Turning pure direct on and off is a user setting and there will be a visual indication of it on the front panel display as you manually turn it on and off. I don't know what the factory default mode is. I don't use it nor recommend it so leave it off.
You lost me on, to paraphrase, "I own a subwoofer but have decided not to use it". Why?
"MULTI CH EXT. IN" or some terminology like it on earlier Denon receivers meant that a multi-pack of analog RCA jacks was enabled, allowing an external decoder to feed the power amps directly, instead of the normal HDMI and digital connections but I see it doesn't mean that on these newer ones. Sorry, my bad.
On the 4520 at least the multi-ch analog inputs are called "External In", for both input selection and sound mode, probably same for 4200.
ps 4200 doesn't appear to have those multi-ch analog inputs....
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