*OFFICIAL* Denon AVR 1610/590 owner's thread - Page 77

There should be no difference in sound between these receivers at any level below clipping. The room calibration feature of the 1610 may alter the sound based on room acoustics but it should be for the better.

Thanks, guys. One more: If I turned off the B speakers, do you think I'd still get clipping?

If you're referring to running in "A+B" mode, you have a greater chance of clipping, so running only in either "A" or "B" mode will lower the chance of clipping at high volume.

Cool, thanks, jd.

soooooo it's been 11 days since i got the 590 with the Boston Acoustic speakers. up until the last day or so the comfortable listening volume for watching TV has been around -22dB to -20dB but today i noticed i get the same volume level at -30dB, a warmer more full sound and harder hitting bass. I guess this means my speakers are broken in eh?

Is the 1610 being made in China or Japan? I understood that the Denon line was made in japan, but also hear lower end stuff is now made in China. Seems you cannot buy consumer (as opposed to audiophine) electronics that are made anywhere but China any more.

Made in China, does it matter as long as it works.

Everything matters when I am making a purchase with my money. Nothing against the PEOPLE of China, who are as interested in making it day to day as are the people in any other country. I am not trying to turn this discussion into a political conversation and will gladly delete the question if deemed inappropriate. It is sometimes very difficult by using manufacturer resources to find out where something is built.

I've got my PS3 hooked up to my Denon AVR-590 via HDMI, and the 590 is hooked up to my TV (Sharp LC37D43U) via HDMI. I turned the HDMI control stuff on to enable passing video and audio through to the TV when the 590 is in stand-by.

I'm running into a strange situation - if I watch something with 5.1 sound and the 590 is in stand-by, my TV seems to only play the L/R sound with no dialog (as if the center channel is not being passed through). If I watch something in stereo with the 590 in stand-by the TV plays everything normally. If the 590 is turned on, the receiver takes care of the audio and it plays through my 5.1 speaker system.

Am I missing something simple here?

batpig, i was reading in the sub thread and saw that you were looking for a musical sub and was wondering what you settled on as i am looking also. based on your experience, if you dont mind me asking.

Hello out there everyone! Before posting, I just wanted to say what an awesome resource this particular thread is: after subjecting myself to the bewildering manual and a useless speaker setup when following said manual, its nice that there are some folks out there who can actually put some of this information into plain English.

Here is my query: I just picked up a 1610 and Klispch HD Theater 300 Speaker System towards the beginning of the month and have been enjoying the results very much thus far. I noticed in the cut sheet on the speakers website that the crossover frequency of the small speakers are 150Hz, yet when I run the Auto setup the program reports a crossover of 100Hz for the rear speakers. (The front speakers were detected as 150Hz, btw).

Will this be a problem for potentially damaging the equipment? Or resulting in a less than optimal listening experience? It would seem to me that forcing through a signal lower than what the speaker's are rate may damage them, but I'm not sure if I'm just worrying for no reason.

Please let me know, and thanks again in advance!

(sorry for not posting the tear sheet link up... since I'm a noob the system won't let me. =/)

Mirage Prestige S8..thought I would save him a post.

edit..as a matter of fact, here is his review of it. Don't know if he feels the same about it, as it was quite some time ago.


It's a PS3 issue, in which the way it handles the sound channels. There is no fix besides having the AVR on, AFAIK.

would the mirage work in a room 20x15 w/cathedral ceilings? hate to ask this in receivers section, just looking to get info from someone w/experience. thanks

In Denon's case, it's actually quite easy to determine simply by looking at each AVRs rear image on the Denon website in which you will see that the 1610, 1910, 2310, and 3310 are "Made in China" and the 4310 and higher are "Made in Japan."

Apparently your TV cannot accept a DD 5.1 signal, rather only stereo. Because you have it set to play on the 590, it's not going to automatically downmix to 2.0 stereo just because you're passing it through to the TV. Either you need to uncheck the 5.1 blocks in the PS3 Sound settings when you want to pass audio through to the TV or you could also connect an optical or RCA cable straight to the TV from the PS3 and change Sound settings to either Digital or Analog depending on which cable you decide to use.

Simply raise the crossover points for the rear speakers to 150hz as well and you'll be good to go. You won't impact the Audssey settings by doing this.

Check the Tv setting for an audio option.

I have hdmi from PS3 to Receiver and hdmi from receiver to TV.

Source on Receiver is Stereo TV, but I have no sound. What connection should I have from the TV TO the Receiver?

There are RCA outputs on the TV, but no TV inputs on the Receiver.

If I connnect RCA from TV to Receiver and change source to Sat/Cab - I DO get sound.

Am I missing the TV inputs on the Receiver?

With this model, HDMI carries both a video AND an audio signal so there is no reason to run any cable from the TV to the 590. If you plug the HDMI cable into HDMI1 (DVD) then whenever you select DVD on the remote you should get both audio and video. If you're only getting stereo it means you must go into the PS3 Sounds settings HDMI Manual setup and make sure that all the DD 5.1 and HD audio blocks are checked.

I'll be darned. I was just visiting the MFG web sites and looking for some info on country of manufacture. DUH! Thanks. Did nto look at the blow up of the rear view of the receiver. Thanks very much. Should have thought of that myself.

No prob, not a big deal. Thanks!

thanks batpig, appreciate your input!

Just got a new 1610 and really like it....sorry if this has been mentioned before, but how do I listen to i-pod, cd, turntable while the video for the television is on?

Sometimes just like to have the music going, but also have the game on!!!!

Thanks for your help...

J

You would need to plug an RCA cable from the audio source into the same labeled RCA jack as you are using for the TV (eg if using the SAT/CBL HDMI jack for TV, then plug the RCA cable (via RCA splitter most likely) into the RCA IN jacks labeled SAT/CBL as well. Then when you want to listen to that source, change the INPUT MODE to Analog. If you want to use an optical cable, you can simply assign the Input Assign (Digital) to either OPT1 or OPT2 and then when you want to listen to that audio change INPUT MODE to Digital.

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And i know it doesn't scale to 1080P, so that is why i want to know what happens when the input already is 1080P, so there won't be any scaling needed in theory.

If the input resolution is 1080p going in, then it will be 1080p going out as well. If it's anything less then that, then your 1080p HDTV will upscale it to 1080p.

Spent the entire day setting 590 with Boston Acoustics.

I have a very simple setup, audio signal comes from my TV into the optical input, no other devices. The overall impression is pretty positive, but I'm experiencing sound spikes while switching the channels on TV. When I switch TV to another channel I first hear a sound spike, actually a very short chunk of the channel audio, then silence for a second and normal audio after that.

It can be 590, TV or both, I understand that. Also, it's a possibility that this behavior is typical when I switch from the channel with the regular stereo sound to the channel with 5.1 sound.

Did somebody have a similar experience?


So far, great sound, the only issue I noticed was stressed/accented sound in words with "s", "sh", "ch" . When I use TV speakers "s" is normal.

I have another setup in my bedroom with Panasonic plasma TV and Denon S301, small 2.1 system that works great, no "s", no spikes while switching everything - channels, sources etc.

I would appreciate it if somebody could share his/her experience with the 590 and similar setup.