Official Denon AVP-A1HD/AVP-A1HDCI and POA-A1HD/POA-A1HDCI owners thread. - Page 475

Originally Posted by locutus2k


Question: is Denon aware of the thing? Is an AVP bug related (as i suppose) or A1UD?
Does someone has some word of mouth/news on how Denon is treating this bug?

I was confident that this last update would resolve the bug, but is not

Originally Posted by rnrgagne

I got a nice surprise today, I thought my good friend & dealer got me a very good deal on the S8 v.2's because they're coming out with with the v.3's... when lo & behold a nice shiny pair of v.3's arrived!! Pics to follow... I gotta go buy a lottery ticket!

Originally Posted by Franin

Well we can never say Denon does not gives us updates.

Originally Posted by danielo

Not fair why don't these things happen to me .

Congrats i hope you ordered them in piano black ?

Daniel.

Originally Posted by danielo

What we can say is they should provide updates about the updates. There system is near perfect but how hard can it be to put 'this update does xxx' in the update screen ?

Daniel.

Originally Posted by Aesculus

Have you read the direct translations? They make no sense at all. First someone in Denon Japan needs to understand English in order to to create a discription that is meaninful.

Originally Posted by rnrgagne

I got a nice surprise today, I thought my good friend & dealer got me a very good deal on the S8 v.2's because they're coming out with with the v.3's... when lo & behold a nice shiny pair of v.3's arrived!! Pics to follow... I gotta go buy a lottery ticket!

Originally Posted by elockett

In summary, I can get the volume I need for blu-ray movies by raising the gain on its trailers first, but should I have to do this at all? What's going on here? Is there a setting in the blu-ray player (Panasonic DMP-BD30) that I need to change? I've never experienced anything like this previously.

Thanks.

Eric

Originally Posted by markrubin

it made it

I had to do a microprocessor reset and it works now

now I have to reload all my settings

this is a good reminder for you guys to save your settings

I will be reluctant to try another FW update for a while though

Originally Posted by rnrgagne

Wow, Eric that's a puzzler - I know I've experienced volume cuts when engaging some of the post processing like THX+PLIIx, but never noticed a problem getting enough gain on the actually volume control. I know there's settings for the volume control like maximum gain and start-up volume etc., I wonder if that's engaged and affecting things?

Originally Posted by progprog

Hmm, that does seem odd. I've never had an issue getting enough volume out of any content. And mine starts to get really loud around -20dB or so; I don't think we have ever come close to playing anything at -4dB.

Originally Posted by progprog

Hmm, that does seem odd. I've never had an issue getting enough volume out of any content. And mine starts to get really loud around -20dB or so; I don't think we have ever come close to playing anything at -4dB.

Originally Posted by elockett

-20 would be too low on my rig for practially all content or sources I listen to. I'm listening to a uncompressed Johnny Cash CD now streamed from my NAS at -15 db ("moderate" volume) via the AVP's master volume control and that's about as low as I have gone for any CD in my collection. I have to turn the gain up to - 6 or 7 for many ablums, and even 0 to + 2 db for a few of them (mainly orchestral works for whatever reason).

Originally Posted by ctouhey

In late August, I checked with two different (well known) B&M shops in town regarding the AVP A1HD. Both told me it was a special order item. I went with the one that gave me the best deal. The catch was that I would have to wait a month for delivery.

I'm upgrading the whole system, so I'm just stacking things up as they come in. The speakers will still be a while, so I'm not really in that much of a hurry. I hope to have everything up and running by early to mid December.

Today I received an e-mail saying the AVP A1HD was still on backorder. I just thought I'd ask if others had a bit of a wait to get their unit.

Thanks,
Chris

Originally Posted by locutus2k

Chris: have you updated the firmware? I remember there were volume issues with early firmwares, maybe your unit comes with a old fw revision.

Originally Posted by elockett

Though I've owned my current AVP for several months, I've only started movie playback in ernest over the past few nights. Last night, I played Kung Fu Panda on blu-ray (wonderful movie!) and encountered something that proved to be rather annoying. I watched the trailers first which were not encoded in Dolby True HD like the main movie (I believe the trailers used stereo PCM but I'd have to double-check with the AVP's audio signal monitor to be sure). I set the AVP's master volume to -4 db for the trailers which was loud, but not uncomfortably so (the level I like for movies in general). When the main movie started and Dobly True HD engaged the volume dropped a bit. Not in an abrupt way but just enough that I instinctively wanted a bit more gain. So I raised the volume on the AVP but it maxed out at -7 db. This was a bit lower than I wanted but I had no choice. The AVP's volume bar stopped at -7 db. Then things got more interesting. I cycled through several THX surround modes to try and get a feel for which one I preferred as the movie played. Each time I selected a different mode and checked the max gain the AVP allowed, it dropped .5 db (-7.5, -8.0, -8.5 etc). Once the max level dropped to -11 db it fell no further; meaning I could choose different surround modes and consistantly raise the master volume to -11 db, but no higher (which is too low for most of the movies I watch). I've experienced no adverse effect with lowering the master volume; it would drop to inaudablility as expected by holding the - volume rocker.

After replaying the trailers and few minutes of the main movie several times, I found a correlation. When I increased the gain on the trailer, the max gain allowed on the main movie also increased. Specifically, when I played the trailers at -0 db (very loud), the main movie would allow a max volume of -3 db, which proved to be the level I wanted more or less. However, if I cycled through the surround modes (THX and non-THX) I experienced the same .5 db drop in max gain allowed again per mode until settling at the floor of -11 db.

Another interesting tidbit: Following the blu-ray title, I tried a DVD with no movie trailer (though it does have a nice music preamble-Star Trek The Motion Picture-Director's Cut). I don't recall the max volume the AVP allowed (I was tired at this point) but it was easily as loud as I could stand and then some. Thus, so far this volume issue appears unique to the blu-ray source.

One more thing: The max volume I could set on the blu-ray movie trailers was + 2 db (uncomfortably loud, but I just wanted to see what the threshold was for troubleshooting purposes). Conversely, on two-channel music played from my HTPC in pure-direct mode (a different source from the dedicated blu-ray player I use for movies), the master volume can consistantly go as high as + 16 db.

In summary, I can get the volume I need for blu-ray movies by raising the gain on its trailers first, but should I have to do this at all? What's going on here? Is there a setting in the blu-ray player (Panasonic DMP-BD30) that I need to change? I've never experienced anything like this previously.

Thanks.

Eric

Originally Posted by progprog

Yeah, I think it looks like a great addition to their line-up: