Pioneer VSX-1021 Owners' Thread - Page 59

Originally Posted by etazer1

I just bought this receiver last month and am having a couple of serious issues:

My connections are exclusively HDMI by the way.

1. LIMITED or CRUSHED DYNAMIC RANGE. I have gone through the manual at least a dozen times with a fine-tooth comb and after turning off the Dynamic Range Control and the ALC option, the output is still being compressed. DTS-Master Audio and Dolby True HD have a huge amount of headroom when it comes to dynamic range and I'm just not getting it at all. Very frustrating since I've got a hungry set of Klipsch Reference Speakers that are prepared for more volume.

2. DISPLAY ALWAYS SHOWS PCM AUDIO. No matter what Bluray I play, or what the audio format is (DTS Master, DOLBY True) the large front display always reads PCM. (Only on the Cable Box HDMI do I see "Dolby Digital" displayed on the HD channels. But Bluray, Nope!) I switched from "AUTO" to "DIRECT". No dice. The smaller format display that is supposed to show the logo/format -- shows nothing. This begs the question, is the receiver even READING the proper audio stream or is it not???

Any help on this would be appreciated. I'm literally a few days away from taking this back and exchanging it for a Denon or something else.

Originally Posted by apaulct

I wonder if it's the BD player causing your problems ... check your setting on it. My Sony player has a setting "BD Audio" which defaults to Mix. When in this setting, the player decodes the DTS-HD or True HD stream, mixes it with the secondary track and outputs in bitstream PCM. To get the DTS-HD or True HD output, you must set this to Direct. My 1021 works fine ... shows the proper format based on the disk recording.

Originally Posted by Bud B

Hi Robertw11



90% of the time both of my Pioneers (VSX 1020 & Elite VSX 53) is on ALC.
For what it's worth.

Bud B

Originally Posted by MameJunkie

New owner here. Anyone know where I can get the command protocol for this model? Have it for the older VSX-1120 but seems like its different. Looking for telnet protocol and not the RS232.

TIA

Originally Posted by ctxx24

Man I'm going crazy with zone 2..i cant get anything to come out of the speakers.... I set it zone 2 on.. When mcacc is running I hear the speakers in the other room testing.. I push z2 on the front it says it's on but it's coming threw the center or none.. Grrrr

Originally Posted by ctxx24

Man I'm going crazy with zone 2..i cant get anything to come out of the speakers.... I set it zone 2 on.. When mcacc is running I hear the speakers in the other room testing.. I push z2 on the front it says it's on but it's coming threw the center or none.. Grrrr

Originally Posted by FenianEMT

I bought my VSX-1021-K several months ago primarily for the HDMI capabilities. I use it with my PS3, AppleTV, and XBox 360. I have a Samsung 52" TV. It seems to work pretty well with the AppleTV and XBox 360, but I've been having problems getting it to work correctly with the PS3 since I got it. It initially works fine when the PS3 is at the XMB, but I run into all kinds of problems watching DVDs. As soon as I select the DVD in the PS3's XMB, the screen goes black, and the TV indicates that it has no signal. There is a red light on the right side of the VSX-1021 that starts flashing (it's solid red when everything's fine). I've sometimes waited as long as 5 minutes or so, and nothing happens. If I power-cycle the VSX-1021, things will start working again. The PS3 seems to know that there's some sort of problem with sync or handshake because it does not progress with the DVD intro stuff until things are working again. In some cases, the problem seems to happen between intro screens on the disc (though that may only be with BD, I don't fully remember).

After I first set it up, I played with the settings on both devices trying to find a solution, but didn't have any luck. This is the first time I've dug deeper, though. I skimmed through the first 10 pages or so of the thread, but didn't find anything, so I apologize if this issue has been addressed later in the thread.

In case it matters, my PS3 is one of the earlier fat/shiny versions with limited backwards compatibility (not the absolute 1st gen with full BC, but not the later ones with none at all).

I would very much appreciate any help with this issue. It's really the only thing I seriously dislike about the VSX-1021 (after setup), but it's an incredibly frustrating problem. I'd like to stop having to power-cycle the receiver every time I go between the XMB and watching a DVD or BD.

Originally Posted by colorblindspy

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Really looking forward to getting audio to the back yard for the summer cookouts.

Originally Posted by ccotenj

^^^

short answer... you are fine... leave the xover knob in the sub as high as it will go... you are doing it the correct way...

somewhat longer answer, and keeping it simple... in this case, the "xover" knob on the sub isn't really a xover in the truest sense of the term... it's low-pass filter (i.e. allow all frequencies below this to pass, keeping in mind it's not a brick wall, it's a slope)...

a "xover" is a combination of a high pass and a low pass filter... it "crosses over" between two "speakers"... with an avr, the bass management (i.e. setting your speakers to "small", which virtually everyone should be doing) sends low frequencies to the sub, and high frequencies to the rest of the speakers...

there's more (i.e. there's different slopes, etc.), especially once you start looking at the crossovers between the drivers in your speakers... but that should give you the basic idea...

hth...

Originally Posted by ctxx24

Man I'm going crazy with zone 2..i cant get anything to come out of the speakers.... I set it zone 2 on.. When mcacc is running I hear the speakers in the other room testing.. I push z2 on the front it says it's on but it's coming threw the center or none.. Grrrr

Originally Posted by colorblindspy

Ok guys I am a rookie at this home audio setup. I believe I have all of my inputs setup correctly on my VSX-1021 but I can't seem to get the Zone 2 function to work. I am trying to set this up for my patio speakers but can't seem to get them to go hot. I have pulled the speakers down and tried to connect directly to the back of the 1021 but still no audio.

Steps I did confirm:

1. Made sure Zone 2 was turned on.
2. Set the source to a signal that was broadcasting audio.

Do I need to setup the speakers with an additional amp? Seems like that would be handled by the tuner but want to cover my basis.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Really looking forward to getting audio to the back yard for the summer cookouts.

Regards

Originally Posted by ctxx24

So when running mcacc I shouldn't be hearing zone 2? I thought it was stage

Originally Posted by robertw11



lol jk, thanks for the help. Glad this site exists and that people are willing to help even with the silliest of questions, makes my av life that much easier.

Originally Posted by nyguy4u

I'm confused with the sub issue that was stated a few posts up. A ways back in this thread (months ago), it was stated to set the crossover knob on the sub itself to 80. Now I'm seeing someone say to set it to 180. Which is it?