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post #1 of 6
6/21/09 at 4:13pm
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Hey guys, I have a Pioneer upconvert DVD player connected to a Pioneer Elite 81TXV. Ever since I went with the HDMI, I've been disappointed with the overall sound, especially the bass. I now have the DVD connected to my Kuro with HDMI and went back to coax for the sound. What a difference!! Better surround sound, better bass. Wonder if I would be missing anything with sound with Blu-Ray.
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post #2 of 6
6/21/09 at 4:51pm
Sounds like something is jacked up on one of your components, or a setting is wrong. HDMI and coaxial shouldn't have any difference on standard definition DVDs.
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post #3 of 6
6/21/09 at 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by Tulpa View Post

Sounds like something is jacked up on one of your components, or a setting is wrong. HDMI and coaxial shouldn't have any difference on standard definition DVDs.

+1 or a setting is off somewhere on the AVR. Optical is limited in bandwidth compared to HDMI, so if you are set-up for DTS-HD/TrueHD you will only be getting the "core" DTS/DD, but outside of that, there shouldn't be any difference between audio that can transmit through optical, especially slanted away from HDMI.
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post #4 of 6
6/21/09 at 6:21pm
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Like what could be jacked up, it's pretty straight forward. I checked the settings and everything looks good.
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post #5 of 6
6/21/09 at 8:40pm
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Like what could be jacked up, it's pretty straight forward. I checked the settings and everything looks good.

What are you comparing, exactly?

What were you passing via HDMI? Bitstream or MPCM?


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Wonder if I would be missing anything with sound with Blu-Ray.

Of course you would.
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post #6 of 6
6/22/09 at 3:49am
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Originally Posted by sivadselim View Post

What are you comparing, exactly?

What were you passing via HDMI? Bitstream or MPCM?


Of course you would.

I wasn't satisfied with the sound I was getting via HDMI, so I switched back to digital coax, and there was the sound that I was looking for. The manual isn't clear about the bitstream or pcm, I have it set to auto. I have the Pioneer 410-k upconvert.
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