Official Blu-Ray Player Audio Setup Thread - All Audio Questions Go Here - Page 10

Originally Posted by limulus

Thanks to all who have posted in this thread and also to those who have replied to me via PM. I'm also a guy with an older non-HDMI system...an HK AVR7200. It is complimented by an EMO XPA-3 amp for the front speakers and I use the onboard amp power for the other four. It has a great bass management section and that's what troubles me with the analog inputs. From what I've gathered, a lot of the <$500 BD players have a 100hz xover and that's what my subwoofers see. That's unacceptable to me. I have to be misunderstanding this I had an order placed for a Pioneer 51FD but stopped it after hearing about the xover. I guess I could just use an optical connection to the 7200 and continue to use it's management system and HDMI to the projector. The other solution is new AVR with HDMI but it will have to have a kickass amp section for the surrounds and rear speakers like the HK 7200. Option 3: buy a dedicated pre/pro with HDMI.

My big problem is we built our HT four years ago and I quit frequenting HT forums. I got behind and I'm now trying to figure some of this out.

Originally Posted by jmpage2

Option 4 would be too buy a modest HDMI equipped AVR with pre-outs that you could use to do bass management, etc, of HDMI sources and use separate amplifiers where needed.

Originally Posted by limulus

I've read some of my HK7200 manual and in the section for 8 channel direct input, it says the following:
"The 8 CH DVD AUDIO input should be used when an input is connected to all eight 8-Channel Direct Inputs and the input source device does NOT have it's own internal bass management system. When this input is in use the analog source is converted to digital so that you may use the same Triple Crossover bass management options for the direct input as you do with all other outputs. This input also mutes the unused input jacks to prevent unwanted noise from interfering with system performance."

Does this by any chance mean I can use the bass management in my HK7200 with a BD player?

Originally Posted by s44

Looks like it.

Originally Posted by limulus

The part about converting analog back to digital is the part that caught my eye. If it's true, I'm back in business

Originally Posted by xtremefit

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this was asked here, but my receiver has HDMI 1.2A without decoding capability.(Pioneer Elite 81TXV) Do I simply set the Blu-Ray to PCM? Will my receiver display the HD sound?

Originally Posted by s44

Yes and yes.

Originally Posted by xtremefit

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this was asked here, but my receiver has HDMI 1.2A without decoding capability.(Pioneer Elite 81TXV) Do I simply set the Blu-Ray to PCM? Will my receiver display the HD sound?

Originally Posted by nr22173

Have a question if anyone can help. Please, Please,Please
I have my blu-ray s350 connected to my Samsung lcd via an HDMI cable with my HD std also going to the tv via an HDMI. I am then running a digital optical cable form the TV to my Samsung Home Theather HT-tz512. I ran everything this way because the home theater has no HDMI inputs. The problem is the sound on my blu-ray is not very loud when I play it through the home theater system. If I just run the sound through the TV it sounds loud but not when going through the home theater system. Any ideas what am i doing wrong?

Originally Posted by nr22173

Have a question if anyone can help. Please, Please,Please
I have my blu-ray s350 connected to my Samsung lcd via an HDMI cable with my HD std also going to the tv via an HDMI. I am then running a digital optical cable form the TV to my Samsung Home Theather HT-tz512. I ran everything this way because the home theater has no HDMI inputs. The problem is the sound on my blu-ray is not very loud when I play it through the home theater system. If I just run the sound through the TV it sounds loud but not when going through the home theater system. Any ideas what am i doing wrong?

Originally Posted by nr22173

The AVR has only one optical cable input so if i run the blu ray to the AVR them I can't connect my hd stb to the AVR. That is unless I use another type of connection or if their is anyway to convert the optical input on the AVR to two inputs. Any suggestions? TIA

Originally Posted by nr22173

The AVR has only one optical cable input so if i run the blu ray to the AVR them I can't connect my hd stb to the AVR. That is unless I use another type of connection or if their is anyway to convert the optical input on the AVR to two inputs. Any suggestions? TIA

Originally Posted by danc6433

Please help...I have an old yamaha power-amp and pre-amp, recently bought a 2nd HDTV, and wanted to add a blu-ray player. Since these old amps only allow for analog audio inputs, will I actually lose any audio in the transition? I'm OK with it not being 7.1 (my other set-up has that), but I still would like to push the sound through the two speakers.

Would I simply hook the HDMI from the blu-ray to the TV, and then use standard audio cables for the sound? From what I've gathered, do some blu-ray players not support this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Originally Posted by lmh11706

have a samsung bdp-1000 and right now its hooked up with the blu-ray hdmi -out to the tv hdmi in and i have an optical audio cable to the reviever for audio

but im getting a new reciever monday-pioneer elite vsx01txh and i want to go thru the reciever now-for audio and video-how does it work -what is the sequence

a hdmi cable from the blu ray player to the reciever-and a second hdmi cable from the reciever to the tv????do i need 2 cables.it doesnt sound right or maybe it is-please help

Originally Posted by ENiGmA1987

Well since if I used analog cables I would spend more money in the cabling than on the player itself I suppose that is out. If I did that I might as well buy a whole new receiver and use the newer HDMI 1.3, because the cost of player + silver core cables would be almost as much.

Do any of you know which codec out of the player/decoded in the receiver would provide the best decoding for the low end part of the sound spectrum? I spent a lot on my Power Amps and four 18" subs and I want to get the best sound out of them as possible...

Originally Posted by ENiGmA1987

So which would be best to set my receiver to:

Dolby Digital decoded in the player with direct setting on Receiver
DTS decoded in the player with direct setting on Receiver
Or have the receiver set to decode with THX Cinema decoding, THX Music, DTS-Cinema, DTS-Music, or Dolby Digital?

Originally Posted by ENiGmA1987


It was decided that since I could not use audio through HDMI, I would have to use an older codec through Optical, or use analog RCA cables. Since the kind of RCA cables I use would cost more than the player (to hook up all channels), that idea is out.