The "official" The Onkyo TX-SR706 Owners Thread - Page 43

Originally Posted by lvtdude

Always good advice.

I would suspect that the Sony is set to output PCM, which should be a simple enough change to make. I'm a Ps3 owner though, so I don't have that option, but I am perfectly happy with it decoding the signal.

Originally Posted by MarcoEsquandolas

Right, so now how do I get the bluray player to output the bitstream so that it can be decoded by the 706?

What I suspect is happening is that my bluray player (again, it's the Sony 350) is decoding the TrueHD on its own and sending that to the receiver via a multichannel PCM signal, as somebody mentioned before. This is fine with me, and it sounds great, but I just want to be sure and listen to the difference between the bluray decoding it and the receiver decoding it. I want to see the "Dolby TrueHD" listening mode appear on the 706 so I know it's doing the decoding.

Originally Posted by CalifLove

Hello all,

I was hooking up and testing my new(refurb) SR706 last night and am having a ton of troubles.

after connecting all my speakers (Energy Take Classic 5.1) I powered the unit on and tuned to a radio station to hear some music while i finished setup.
Radio comes through fine and sounds good.

I then moved on to setting my inputs for my DISH receiver and PS3. I was planning on running audio via HDMI and set all up that way. Here's the problem - when I switch to the Sat mode and watch TV, the sound either doesn't work at all, or will cut in and out as if there are loose cables somewhere AND everything sounds slightly digitally distorted. I then moved over to the PS3 and found the same issue.

My next test was to assign these devices to run audio over optical connections in case I was just having weird HDMI issues...but I find I have the same trouble over optical as well.

I also noticed when I go to the test tone menu it will cut and clip out the test tones before finally stopping sound all together after a little bit.

The really strange thing here is that the radio works - seemingly fine.

Does any one have any ideas on something I could be doing wrong or should I pack the thing up and send it back?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

-Reggie

Originally Posted by CalifLove

Hello all,

I was hooking up and testing my new(refurb) SR706 last night and am having a ton of troubles.

after connecting all my speakers (Energy Take Classic 5.1) I powered the unit on and tuned to a radio station to hear some music while i finished setup.
Radio comes through fine and sounds good.

I then moved on to setting my inputs for my DISH receiver and PS3. I was planning on running audio via HDMI and set all up that way. Here’s the problem - when I switch to the Sat mode and watch TV, the sound either doesn’t work at all, or will cut in and out as if there are loose cables somewhere AND everything sounds slightly digitally distorted. I then moved over to the PS3 and found the same issue.

My next test was to assign these devices to run audio over optical connections in case I was just having weird HDMI issues...but I find I have the same trouble over optical as well.

I also noticed when I go to the test tone menu it will cut and clip out the test tones before finally stopping sound all together after a little bit.

The really strange thing here is that the radio works - seemingly fine.

Does any one have any ideas on something I could be doing wrong or should I pack the thing up and send it back?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

-Reggie

Supports Deep Color (30/36 bit), x.v.Color, 120Hz/24Hz Refresh Rates and Auto Lip-Sync compensation

Originally Posted by TheHiFiKid

Hello all,

This may be a stupid question but I was wondering if the 706 supports 24hz playback. I was set to buy it when I noticed the new yamaha's rx-v series have the following listed in there features:



I know the 706 has the deep color support but can it also handle the 120/24hz play back? I have a panny 850u which supports 48hz refresh and I also have a ps3, so will I be able to pass the 24hz playback through the 706?


-TheHiFiKid

Originally Posted by oink

There are reports the 706's THROUGH mode clips BTB and WTW video information.
For Videophiles, this is unacceptable.
However, YMMV.

Unfortunately, I will have to run my BD player directly to my plasma and hook-up the audio via analog cables to the 706.

Originally Posted by vid33nyc1

WHAT?I have had the 706 since it was first released and i havent noticed any clipping at all.This is something new to me.I use the PS3 to play my BLUs and they look fine.

Originally Posted by bluesky636

Is anyone using DynamicEQ?

After running MultEQ per the "official" Audyssey thread, my bass sounds great.

It sounds great using THX Loudness Plus.

It sounds TERRIBLE (very bloated and spacey) with DynamicEQ.

My setup of MultEQ is described in an earlier post in this thread. I have asked the same question in the Audyssey thread.

Originally Posted by Jakeman02

It only effects a very small percentage of users, mostly who are using a computer as the source but even then the video card can be configured for it not to be an issue or when using some calibration utilities which doesn't mean much either. To the masses it's a non issue.

Originally Posted by lvtdude

I'm just curious, are the same people that complain about the BTB and WTW clipping the same people that use Dynamic EQ or THX Loudness all the time? I come from an audio background, and am not concerned about the video clipping, but I would only use a loudness compensation circuit if I was listening at very, very low levels. A few years ago I probably wouldn't have even tried using Audyssey, but I must admit, it does a great job for surround sound.

When I listen to CD's, I don't use EQ, I don't use Audyssey, and I don't use tone controls. I like it clean.

I think it would be funny if the guys that worried about BTB and WTW clipping had absolutely no problem with adding all kinds of extra equalization to their sound.

Originally Posted by bluesky636

I don't care about the clipping issue.

But the point I think you are missing is that THX Loudness Plus and Dynamic EQ are DESIGNED to be used ANYTIME you are listening BELOW the zero db reference level. It is not supposed to matter whether it is 1 db below or as in my case, 16 to 20 db below.

Originally Posted by lvtdude

I understand that, but I'm just not a fan of equalization. If I really want to watch something quietly though, I use it. I never use it with music. I'd rather bust out the headphones and listen to it at regular volume than use any sort of EQ, tone controls, etc.

Originally Posted by lvtdude

I'm just curious, are the same people that complain about the BTB and WTW clipping the same people that use Dynamic EQ or THX Loudness all the time?.

Originally Posted by Jakeman02

And that's they they included the option to turn it off, nice to have choices.

Originally Posted by lvtdude

I understand that, but I'm just not a fan of equalization. If I really want to watch something quietly though, I use it. I never use it with music. I'd rather bust out the headphones and listen to it at regular volume than use any sort of EQ, tone controls, etc.

Originally Posted by Dugout Doug

Has anyone compared the sound quality with this thing, with PCM via ps3 for blu rays, and bitstreaming and letting the 706 do the work?

Any observations on that?

Originally Posted by acpmadness

Hey Guys.

I've been fighting with the 706 for the past 4 hours and finally jumped on here to see if anyone could help.

Frist problem is when I try and use the on screen menu. The picture either freezes, gets very blurry or turns green so I can't read anything. I have to exit out of the menu and get back in and start over.

Other problem is I have a Xbox 360 connect via component cables to the 706 and the a HDMI out to the TV. I have the HDMI setting on "through" and when I get to the xbox display settings, I can use 720p and 1080i, but 1080p wont work. It turns the screen blue.

Anyone know whats going on?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by bluesky636

Can't answer the first question (although it sounds like a faulty unit), but the second one is easy - the maximum resolution with component video is 1080i. So setting the Xbox to output 1080p won't work because component video won't support it (not enough bandwidth). You would have to set the 706 to upconvert the 1080i over component to 1080p over HDMI.

Originally Posted by primetimeguy

Well, since the PS3 cannot bitstream the lossless codecs it is not a fair comparison.

Originally Posted by bvsouthc

I ran my audyssey last night and below are the results.

SBS - Yes
Front - 40 HZ
Center 40HZ
Surround - 60 HZ
Surr Back - 40 HZ
Surr back CH - 2ch

FL -0.5db
SL -4.0db
SBL -3.5db
C -1.5db
FR -1.0db
SR --3.0db
SBR -1.5db
SBW +9.0db

Speakers I have:
Fronts 2 Energy C-300
Center Energey C-C50
Surrounds 2 Energy C-100
Back Surrounds 2 Energy C-300
SBW BIC VK-12

The distances were pretty accurate except for the subwoofer which it said was 14.5 feet away (only about 10-11 feet). Also when I went in to check the speaker configs manually it had the front at "Full Band" instead of 40Hz and had "double bass" on. I ended up changing it to 40HZ and turned off the double bass. I adjusted the SBW to 12 feet and brought it down to +7.0db. I also changed the Center from -1.5db to +1.0db as it is a little hard to hear vocals sometimes. I tweaked the db's on a couple of the others but not by much.

Is there anything else I should do to adjust these? Do these seem like "normal" range numbers? I am assuming they have the sides at 60hz and the rest at 40 as they are smaller than the fronts and backs (but center should be similar to sides). Not sure why my sub came up as that far away and a +9.0db. Should I just turn the db down to 0.0 and turn up the volume on the back of the sub (about halfway now). Thanks.

Originally Posted by bluesky636

Can't answer the first question (although it sounds like a faulty unit), but the second one is easy - the maximum resolution with component video is 1080i. So setting the Xbox to output 1080p won't work because component video won't support it (not enough bandwidth). You would have to set the 706 to upconvert the 1080i over component to 1080p over HDMI.