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PS3 to receiver surround issue!

post #1 of 12
1/14/13 at 2:02pm
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I have my ps3 hooked up to my Harman Kardon AVR 55 via optical cord. The audio settings on my ps3 for optical are Linear PCM 2 chn. 44.1 khz and 48 khz, which are the defaults. Although it is a surround capable receiver I only have 2 speakers hooked up to it and so haven't set any other settings for output on the ps3.

The issue is that I have the super quiet voices super loud everything else thing going on, as if I had it set to surround but without a center speaker missing. On the receiver it is actually set to surround > 3 stereo. I went further into the settings and turned center and sub to OFF. The problem persists. I pushed the SURROUND OFF button, which I would assume would throw it into plain old 2 channel stereo. The sound cuts out COMPLETELY. I HAVE to put it back to surround > 3 stereo for there to be any sound at all.

Its getting really frustrating having to hold the receiver remote to constantly adjust volume while watching a movie. Games and music seem to be ok though.
Is there a problem with my receiver, or some setting or other detail that I am completely missing here?

EDIT: "pro logic" mode now works and seems to improve the problem, though the issue is still there enough to be annoying. That didn't work previously, don't know what I did different this time to make it work. Surround OFF still cuts the sound completely though.
Edited by SatanicGoat - 1/14/13 at 5:16pm
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post #2 of 12
1/15/13 at 1:51am
Pro Logic and 3-Stereo are almost identical, but while it is valid to operate PL without a center speaker, it makes no sense to do so for 3 Stereo, as that would be a long way back to stereo. So I can see that PL in phantom C mode would sound pretty much like stereo mode (until a strong surround effect comes along which would be removed from the L/R).

Surround Off is supposed to be straight stereo, regardless of whatever surround mode might have been used before. So the receiver does not seem to be doing the right thing there.

When you run the test tones, do they come out the L/R speakers properly?
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post #3 of 12
1/16/13 at 2:42pm
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Test tones come out of fronts ok. It cycles through front left, then right, then the rears which I do not have hooked up so there is not sound. It never displays center since I have it off. Sub is also off.
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post #4 of 12
1/16/13 at 4:02pm
You should have the rears turned off as well if you don't have them hooked up.
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post #5 of 12
1/16/13 at 6:00pm
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There is no way that I have found to do that. The button I use to set center and sub and turn them off only cycles through those two, never an option for rears.
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post #6 of 12
1/19/13 at 9:22am
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Any other thoughts?
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post #7 of 12
1/19/13 at 9:47am
Make sure that you haven't hooked up your speakers to th rear speaker terminals by mistake.
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post #8 of 12
1/19/13 at 1:23pm
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Speakers are hooked up properly. That was one of the first things I checked.
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post #9 of 12
1/19/13 at 7:22pm
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Originally Posted by SatanicGoat View Post

Speakers are hooked up properly. That was one of the first things I checked.

I would argue that they aren't hooked up properly as you are missing a center channel and rear channels which your receiver believes are there.

Why not just get cheap surrounds and a center and be done with it.
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post #10 of 12
1/19/13 at 8:56pm
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I own them, they just are not hooked up (there is also no place to put the center speaker with my current set up). Getting speaker wire and hooking them up would only band aid a problem I do not yet know how to solve otherwise, which I am trying to do. The 2 fronts are indeed hooked up properly, as in they are not plugged into the jacks for the rears or anything. Center is turned OFF, so my receiver SHOULDN'T be believing it is there. This is the problem I wish to solve.
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post #11 of 12
1/22/13 at 2:57pm
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Bump.
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post #12 of 12
1/22/13 at 3:09pm
It's sounds a lot like you connected the front speakers to the rear speaker terminals, but if that's not the case then the problem may be that the receiver is defective. An new entry level $200 AV receiver would be a huge improvement in terms of functionaility over what you're using now. Something used but not as old as what you're using now could be a big improvement and even cheaper.
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