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post #6091 of 14613
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Originally Posted by Tigger! View Post

At some point you just have to draw a line and release what ya got I think there were a few people ready to murder a small tweeter if they didn't see a firmware release soon lol.

I suspect it will make the next release if they are already working on it...

I beleive they will too. Order of importance is the main objective and while it would be nice to get them all in on a single release it just never happens that way.
post #6092 of 14613
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Originally Posted by rwheelwright View Post

After upgrading the firmware, I re-ran ARC. I also ran PBK first. Since I last ran ARC I have re-arranged some furniture and changed some too. I have to say, I felt that my PBK and ARC results were better last time at least for my sub but now I have a big 3 seater couch right next to the sub. I tried moving it around but because it is so big it is hard to move even with furniture movers. I felt more bass before too but I am limited at the moment with placement. I tried 6 inches one way and between 6 - 12 inches the other way and approx 6 from the wall and back to about 2 inches from the wall.

Anways, here are my new ARC results.

Aside from ARC I did notice something strange and I'm not sure of cause. When I put in WotW the picture looked terrible. I thought the firmware was messing up the picture but then I noticed that my TV had changed to the Brilliant setting from a custom setting. I don't remember changing this especially since I didn't have the TV on until I put the movie on. I'm wondering if the update caused something in my TV to reset. Especially the CEC option popped up on my screen asking if I wanted to enable or disable. (this was the TV popup ot the MRX.)

Your sub response still looks very good and should sound very good. I can't imagine much of a difference b/t what you had and this new result. Your response from 100 to 20Hz is quite flat and can't get much better so how would you get a better response? Have you set, in advanced settings, the sub to Flat? That could give you a more subsonic, tactile response, especially for a movie like WOTW.
John
post #6093 of 14613
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Originally Posted by jayray View Post

Your sub response still looks very good and should sound very good. I can't imagine much of a difference b/t what you had and this new result. Your response from 100 to 20Hz is quite flat and can't get much better so how would you get a better response? Have you set, in advanced settings, the sub to Flat? That could give you a more subsonic, tactile response, especially for a movie like WOTW.
John

I do have it set to flat. I guess what is bothering me is that I went from awesome to a little less. Being anal I guess.
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post #6094 of 14613
When does one set the sub settings to flat?
post #6095 of 14613
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Originally Posted by rwheelwright View Post


I do have it set to flat. I guess what is bothering me is that I went from awesome to a little less. Being anal I guess.

Have you changed it to flat in ARC? Doing it in PBK is not enough, you must do it in ARC after your new measurement.
John
post #6096 of 14613
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Originally Posted by hydrotex View Post

When does one set the sub settings to flat?

If you have a sub that can play subsonic freq. at high dB levels. If you set it to flat with a low performance sub, you could damage it.
John
post #6097 of 14613
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Originally Posted by jayray View Post

Have you changed it to flat in ARC? Doing it in PBK is not enough, you must do it in ARC after your new measurement.
John

Yeah, both are set to flat. Before I had a futon by the sub. Now this huge thick couch so I have to attribute the change to that.
post #6098 of 14613
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Originally Posted by rwheelwright View Post

I guess what is bothering me is that I went from awesome to a little less. Being anal I guess.

Have you confirmed the sub is in-phase with the rest of the system?
post #6099 of 14613
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Originally Posted by jayray View Post

If you have a sub that can play subsonic freq. at high dB levels. If you set it to flat with a low performance sub, you could damage it.
John

Thanks, so how does one know when they have a sub capable of this performance?
post #6100 of 14613
Quick question after upgrading to the new firmware after powering the unit off isn't the power light supposed to turn red from blue in standby mode?
post #6101 of 14613
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Originally Posted by Robin howarth View Post

Quick question after upgrading to the new firmware after powering the unit off isn't the power light supposed to turn red from blue in standby mode?

Not with the new firmware.

Check out this post:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...postcount=5965
post #6102 of 14613
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Originally Posted by hydrotex View Post

Thanks, so how does one know when they have a sub capable of this performance?

Generally by looking at the performance from about 30hz and below. Most subs will perform best as ARC sets them up.

The best thing to do is post your charts and if it looks like your sub may be a candidate we will let you know
post #6103 of 14613
Thank you Tigger, all is clear!
post #6104 of 14613
Attachment 219705

my 300 glitched again. I'll be exchanging tomorrow. I've been running v50.11 and v50.12 since they've been released as beta. very strange.
LL
post #6105 of 14613
I am using "through" mode to get 24 frames. However, it removes volume slider.

I have receiver on my back. Is it possible to see volume slider with "through" mode. If not is it possible to see volume level if I use any special remote to see volume on its display.

Unfortunately, I had returned logitech 900 since it did not work. I wonder if it displays volume. Appreciate for any suggestions.
I guess it is not possible, just want to confirm one more time.
post #6106 of 14613
When I selected "dolby digital uncompressed" in blu-ray, I see "multi pcm" as input to receiver. is it correct? Is it better than "dolby digital"?
post #6107 of 14613
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Originally Posted by Tank_PD View Post

I have tried swapping HDMI cables. No difference. Hooking up the blu-ray player directly to the TV doesn't have nearly as much "noise." I can't seem to find any video settings that affect this.

I'm trying to determine if this is something MRX video processing just "applies" to the entire image or if there is something legitimately wrong with the receiver.

I noticed when I switch from the BDP input to the CD input the snow on the image disappears. This seems rather strange to me since bother are set to HDMI 1 / HDMI 1 for video / audio and are going through the same cable and player. Gives me hope there is a setting somewhere I am missing that is only applied to the BDP input.
post #6108 of 14613
Hi,

I can report that with FW 50.12 "Through" is now working, with no on screen display (volume indicator).

There is still 42 hz "jump" in picture when using "auto" setting in video, but is not apparent with "Through" setting.

However there are still some small clicks when amp is changing audio codec, and somestimes even clicks between cd tracks on cd player and between commercials on TV.
Very irritating.

Besides also the change of video source often results in some "flickern" in the screen.

Some small observations, but I would categorise them as small bugs in FW.
post #6109 of 14613
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Originally Posted by kimkp View Post

Hi,

I can report that with FW 50.12 "Through" is now working, with no on screen display (volume indicator).

There is still 42 hz "jump" in picture when using "auto" setting in video, but is not apparent with "Through" setting.

However there are still some small clicks when amp is changing audio codec, and somestimes even clicks between cd tracks on cd player and between commercials on TV.
Very irritating.

Besides also the change of video source often results in some "flickern" in the screen.

Some small observations, but I would categorise them as small bugs in FW.

There some very very small clicks. I am not sure this can be fixed.
post #6110 of 14613
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Originally Posted by Tigger! View Post

The Hard Reset will not return you to the shipping firmware, if you have installed 50.12m, you will still have 50.12, however it will reset all of your configuration settings including your source setups (so it will feel like it is new, straight from the factory but with the current firmware).

When you do the reset, you should see something like "Factory Reset" appear on the MRX's display, at that point you can let go of the Tuner button.

The red standby light on the new firmware (NOTE: this firmware is still beta and not available publicly yet as of 8/1/2011) simply indicates that "CEC" is on.

The LED lights currently have the following colors:

Blue - On (Main & Zone 2 amps)
Red - Off (Main, production firmware 50.04); Off with CEC On (Main, beta firmware 50.12)
Black (no led) - Off (Zone 2, production firmware 50.04) Off with No CEC (Main & Zone 2, beta firmware 50.12)


Tigger, shouldn't the red light be "on" when CEC is set to "on"?
post #6111 of 14613
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Originally Posted by eric-t View Post

Tigger, shouldn't the red light be "on" when CEC is set to "on"?

Yes! Good catch, fixed my post... man I need to slow down when posting Surprised you are the first to catch that! Also updated the post to be production for both firmware sets!
post #6112 of 14613
Can someone please explain the hdmi cec feature, I have other source components that have the same feature.
post #6113 of 14613
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Originally Posted by sukumar View Post

When I selected "dolby digital uncompressed" in blu-ray, I see "multi pcm" as input to receiver. is it correct? Is it better than "dolby digital"?

It means the player is decoding the audio and passing it along as PCM -or- the BR has PCM as an option (mostly found on earlier titles.)

As a side note... audio starts off as PCM and is fed into various encoders... when decoded, it results in PCM again...

There is no such thing as "dolby digital uncompressed."
post #6114 of 14613
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How does this sub chart and target look with gramma isolation riser vs next post without gramma riser?
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LL
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post #6116 of 14613
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Originally Posted by kimkp View Post
I can report that with FW 50.12 "Through" is now working, with no on screen display (volume indicator).

There is still 42 hz "jump" in picture when using "auto" setting in video, but is not apparent with "Through" setting.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "42 Hz jump in picture"?
post #6117 of 14613
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Originally Posted by icemanjs
here are my arc results

fronts studio 40's
rears paradigm adp
cc paradigm studio 570
sub svs pb-12
Any other help to improve results. Have a small room with not many seating areas
post #6118 of 14613
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Originally Posted by svphile View Post
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How does this sub chart and target look with gramma isolation riser vs next post without gramma riser?
The second post looks much better to me and is extending out to 120hz nicely unlike the first where it is dropping off around 80hz.

You didn't post your fron speaker graphs... but something there looks off... why are they set at 120? I would have expected they would be more like 60?

I'm not questioning why ARC picked 120, I'm sure that is the best solution, I'm more concerned with why you don't seem to have any low end... are your fronts small cube speakers? is there some sort of crossover for the low end that is disconnected? Unless both the woofers in your fronts are bad, I would expect they should be doing something below 120...
post #6119 of 14613
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Originally Posted by favorini View Post
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "42 Hz jump in picture"?
I think he meant 24Hz jump, an occasional jump in the picture where one frame is deleted, because blu-ray has not exactly 24Hz but the Anthem expects exactly 24Hz, so there has to be a occasional correction for synch. This has been present with auto modus from the beginning and I am using through as a workaround, but I am really disappointed that Anthem has not yet managed to remove this bug from the other video modi like auto, which i would prefer to use for blu-ray. Come on, Anthem, is it really that difficult? All the other manufacturers can do it.
post #6120 of 14613
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Originally Posted by Robin howarth View Post
Can someone please explain the hdmi cec feature, I have other source components that have the same feature.
With the added CEC feature with the new firmware the MRX is now able to pass through your last source used. For an example, if you were watching cable/sat and shut your MRX off you can now just turn your TV and cable/sat box on and use your TV speakers without turning your MRX on. When you turn CEC on, the MRX will use about the same power as a 60 watt light bulb when you turn the MRX off and is in standby since the HDMI engine needs to stay active. You will know CEC is on when the MRX is in standby as you will see the red standby light in the lower right corner like the previous 50.01(300) 50.04(500,700).

Basically the CEC function is a way for components to talk to each other when using one remote. Just Google it and you will get a better grasp of it.
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