Anthem D2/D2v/AVM50/AVM50v/ARC1 tweaking guide - Page 371

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bluemark81 I see your question has already been answered. Yes that is the same model I have and I just used a male/female serial cable; hooked cable to d2 and left it hooked up worked fine. I did have to reload 1.29j a second time a few days later as I would get a blue screen everytime I adjusted the volume. I think my problem was that I used the old version of setup editor from anthems main site ; second time I entered everything manually and so far all is fine scott

My D2 currently has v1.21. I am in the process of trying to update to v1.29j. Part of instructions is to load the factory default settings and once the new firmware has been applied, to load load my settings. Well, my question is are all firmware backwards compatible? How do I know that the settings that I have saved for v1.21 will still work for v1.29j? To me, if I reload my settings from v1.21, I could very well be undoing something that was done from v1.29j. Is this really an issue?

Do it the way the instructions describe. The update basically preserves your current settings, but could have problems with some types of older settings. So they have you load the older version of the defaults first, then do the update, then reload your personal (again, older) settings. Installing the software will work more reliably if it if finds nothing but the (older) factory defaults. And then after the install, running the Restore of your settings runs software which recognizes that you may be using older settings and is supposed to "do the right thing" with them.

Now, having done that, you should still go through the resulting settings, menu by menu, looking for things that you might need to tidy up. For example, when they first introduced the "overlayed" inputs (e.g., DVD2 vs DVD1) they did not automatically "disable" the overlays, and they would start off with some odd settings in them which could cause confusion if you selected an overlayed input by mistake.
--Bob

Easy for you to say

Exactly!

Bob: I attempted doing that, but they don't seem to come out.

http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa1...SA19HS_v1b.pdf

Blumark;

Don't worry about hurting those stupid skrews. Force them.. That's what I did.

Anyone want to help me buy Bob an ARC-1 kit?

Hey, where would we be without him?

Bluemark81,
Unclejeff is right. The female/female couplers have a stop in them to keep them from just falling off the male screw that's built into the plug. Just force them past the stop. If you damage the male part of the screw it's no big loss.

Or you could do what I do and leave a regular serial cable permanently attached to the back of the D2 and coiled up behind it. Then, when I need to hook it to the PC I pull out the loose end and use it. In your case that would mean the end of the cable would attach to serial plug on your Keyspan (make sure you get the right sex of cable at each end). The cable will have two screws that match the female couplers on the Keyspan.

The serial cable itself should be a "straight through" cable (pins 1-9 connect to pins 1-9). Don't get a "null modem" cable that swaps a pair of wires from one end to the other.
--Bob

Tolstoi,

I used the ARC software tonight. Only comment of note, it works. Rough go, very rustic, but the application works. Laptop locked up several times. Had to reboot the Anthem (full powerdown and up) to get it to see the processor again, but I finally got it.

"If you damage the male part of the skrew...."

yup.

Are you impressed with the Audio results of the ARC?

That's it. It works?
How about a little before & after description, please.
If you're going to say better, don't bother


Bigmoviefan FYI,Blue textdoes not show up on the black background

Is the ARC supposed to actually set things like treble and bass or just volumes of each speaker?

One thing to keep in mind is that if you resave your settings in 1.29j and then have to roll back to 1.21d (as I did) you will lose all of your saved settings and will have to re-input them manually. At least all of my settings were lost, and Nick confirmed that settings saved under 1.29 cannot be restored under 1.21. This is a real downside of not being able to save your settings to a laptop on the newer software versions.

I spoke to Nick earlier in the week and he told me Anthem was aware of the video problems some people (including me) are having with 1.29j, and they are working on fixing them in 1.30 (which will be a stable release put out on the Anthem public website). Nick also said some of the delay in making the Arc-1 available for current owners is that they want to get the software fixed first.

The cool thing with the setup editor is that you could open both file the saved 1.21 and your current setting and quickly double check after the update that all your retrieved settings are ok. If not they could be quickly fixed if required.

Same for the life video editor files, multiple instance of the tool could be opened and used for comparison.

The software is still at beta testing stage. Please forward all your issues to Nick at Anthem so they could fix them for the final product.

Run it in advanced mode, the GUI are more detailed there.

Big Time!

Ditto!

A HA! FINALLY! Folks we have our first posts here confirming that the ARC-1 processing is the best thing since sliced bread (or words to that effect)!

Mark this date down in your diaries.

(grin!)
--Bob

This is exciting that we are getting new about ARC, but night and day is a big statement. It would be nice if we could get some details on what it improved.

Thanks

Could someone please tell me what's Nick's e-mail addres is? I tried to do a search on this forum for it; but, I couldn't find it. I probably did the search wrong.

OK. I understand people are reticent to get into any details, how about this;
tell us about your sound system and room, like dedicated theater\\music room, multi-purpose room, garage, abandoned outhouse?
Speakers, amps, configuration, etc.
No details of the ARC or it's effects are required.
It would give us poor folks reference and comparison points, plus something interesting to read.
Thanks.
One wonders, if it's still in beta why are they shipping it in new D2s.....

sfitech@sonicfrontiers.com

Will this go directly to Nick or will it go into a queue?

Either email using above email address, or call the support number listed on the web site. Phone call is best way.

larry

Ok. Thanks.

Can you describe the differences between with ARC and without?