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Pioneer VSX-01TXH no sound from subwoofer

post #1 of 16
9/24/12 at 6:08pm
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So I just picked up this receiver and everything works great except I can't get any bass out of my sub. I have three subs I've tried, a polk audio, a klipsh, and a yamaha, all good working subs. The cable is good as well. I've checked all the settings that I can come up with but I am not familiar with this receiver and feel that I am simply missing something. I can see the lfe indicator for when supposedly a bass signal is sent. I hope i didn't just get a bum receiver.
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post #2 of 16
9/25/12 at 6:26am
Did you buy this used? I'm guessing so since it's a 3-4year old model. Do you have subwoofer set to 'yes', and how is it configured, bass + lfe, or lfe only? How are your other speakers set, large or small?
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post #3 of 16
9/25/12 at 7:01am
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Originally Posted by Robkill View Post

So I just picked up this receiver and everything works great except I can't get any bass out of my sub. I have three subs I've tried, a polk audio, a klipsh, and a yamaha, all good working subs. The cable is good as well. I've checked all the settings that I can come up with but I am not familiar with this receiver and feel that I am simply missing something. I can see the lfe indicator for when supposedly a bass signal is sent. I hope i didn't just get a bum receiver.

Did you use MCCAC to do initial setup? 

 

 

Check crossover freq, speaker size(set to small), and double check your sub cable not plugged into a pre-out for something else, ive done this on my 03txh.

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post #4 of 16
9/25/12 at 7:04am
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Yes, I traded a laptop for it. I know the guy and he swears up and down that his subs were working before he traded it. I've tried all sorts of settings, large and small speakers, sub on yes and plus, lfe at off, 0db and it only goes negative but went that way to. I've set the ch levels all to the highest and everything in between. I've even reset the system to factory default
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post #5 of 16
9/25/12 at 7:07am
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No I did it manually, I don't have the mix to do the MCACC. I've got it plugged into the preout marked subwoofer, and I've never touched the crossover settings before, what should the be set to?
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post #6 of 16
9/25/12 at 9:22am
You can isolate the problem to the sub preout by doing the following:

Set speakers all to large

Plug sub into any speaker preout and see if sub will play off any of those.

I would get a mike MCCAC is very useful.

Ill look at mine tonight to see if any setting jumps out at me that might be the cause of your problem.
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post #7 of 16
9/25/12 at 10:30am
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Okay I did that and I got sound out of the front left and right preouts. So I'm assuming that means something is wrong with the sub preout? And if so is there a fix?
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post #8 of 16
9/25/12 at 11:13am
Maybe, hopefully its a setting though...... At least were sure the cable/subs etc are good to go.

I cant think of a setting that would produce this so, might be bad news.
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post #9 of 16
9/25/12 at 4:22pm
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Well to you have any suggestions as far as possible hardware fixes? I've also just heard from a friend that some of these higher end receivers can get firmware updates, do you know if that's possible for this model? Thanks for all your help as well
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post #10 of 16
9/25/12 at 4:42pm
Can you do a processor reset?
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post #11 of 16
9/25/12 at 6:24pm
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I have done the reset to factory defaults if that's what you mean
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post #12 of 16
9/25/12 at 7:57pm
As long as you're 100% sure you don't have it connected to the subwoofer mutlichannel input instead of the subwoofer pre out then I'm not sure what else it could be.
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post #13 of 16
9/25/12 at 9:26pm
Sorry to hear about your problem. Take it to a repair shop and get an estimate of the repir. It is worth the up front money to have it looked at.
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post #14 of 16
9/26/12 at 4:43am
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Originally Posted by afrogt View Post

As long as you're 100% sure you don't have it connected to the subwoofer mutlichannel input instead of the subwoofer pre out then I'm not sure what else it could be.

YES.  Check this.  I did this on my 03.

 

i went through the settings last night nothing stood out that would cause this.  I would recommend going through initial setup by plugging in mic from normal state but you don't have a mic.  If your gonna keep the receiver and get it fixed you'll need the mic anyways.  I would buy one on ebay or contact pioneer and see if they will send you one.  Initial setup goes through all the speakers and detects them.  I would be curious if this detection might activate the sub out, IDK but you'll need/want that mic anyways.

 

Nicholas.

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post #15 of 16
9/26/12 at 7:34am
Where you located Robkill? Send a shout out to see if there's someone local who can loan you a pioneer mic.
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post #16 of 16
9/26/12 at 9:10pm
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I'm located near Portland Oregon. I looked on pioneers sight and the mics are $30 before shipping and god knows what else they'd charge. I was hoping amazon would have one but no luck so far
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