The Official Onkyo TX-SR705 Thread (FAQ in 1st Post) - Page 284

Originally Posted by ElectronicTonic

I just purchased a new Samsung PN50B860. I have a PS3 and Xbox360 connected through my Onkyo 705 via HDMI. Both my 360 and PS3 have the signal randomly drop every few minutes. If I direct connect PS3 or 360 to the TV, they both work fine. Never had any problems before with this setup. Any help would be great. If you need any more info let me know.

Thanks

Originally Posted by deano86

Make sure that your HDMI Audio Out setting is "OFF" in your receiver menu...

Originally Posted by deano86

Signal degradation over a long run can definitely cause that issue......

Originally Posted by ElectronicTonic

The weird thing is, that it's worked with two other TVs, but not this one. HDMI can be soooo difficult sometimes......most times.

The sound from your TV is most likely stereo PCM (unless you are using the QAM tuner). Very few (if any) TVs pass 5.1 sound out from external sources...

Also, what listening preset do folks recommend for Movies in Analog/PCM? I am currently using Neo:6 Cinema.

What about Music in Analog/PCM? I typically use Neo:6 Music and 5 Ch. Stereo.

Originally Posted by clevedon

Hi there, having a small problem with our 705. When the volume gets at or over -4 for any period of time it shuts down. Reboots fine and I just turn it down to around -6 or -7 and it's fine. I run a 120mm cooling fan when it's on, I am I just pushing it to hard? There is no distortion when I am at the level it cuts out and speakers seem to handling it fine, it's loud but not too loud if you know what I mean. I would of thought it would handle that volume fine. Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by clevedon

Thanks for the quick reply. Have recently gone from 5.1 to 7.2, but the problem was occuring before that. All speakers sounding fine, good connections and working great, it's just when it gets to that level it shuts down. Just in case it's needed, I'm running Wharfedale 9.6 fronts and sides, 9.1 centre, Mission MHT DS rear surrounds and Wharfedale PC12+ subs. I'm sure it's got plenty left in it to go up in volume but not at the moment.

Originally Posted by dewd

Not sure then... The only time I've had that happen is when I had a bad tweeter. I run my at -3 or higher most of the time. Do you use Audyssey? Maybe give it a shot (even if you don't use it). Sometimes it will find a problem with a speaker you do not detect.

Originally Posted by johnnyknoxsvill

I have read through alot of pages but wanted to know how to turn off the Dynamic Range Control on my receiver

Originally Posted by clevedon

Hi there, having a small problem with our 705. When the volume gets at or over -4 for any period of time it shuts down. Reboots fine and I just turn it down to around -6 or -7 and it's fine. I run a 120mm cooling fan when it's on, I am I just pushing it to hard? There is no distortion when I am at the level it cuts out and speakers seem to handling it fine, it's loud but not too loud if you know what I mean. I would of thought it would handle that volume fine. Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by JChin

On the remote, press "Receiver" and then press "L Night" repeatedly to select OFF, Low, High for DD/DD Plus and Auto, Off, On for Dolby True HD.

Originally Posted by clevedon

Yep, I used Audyssey again when I added the two rear surrounds and I was in the room watching it in action and set it at eight positions and all speakers registered fine in the setup. Is there a sound meter or equivalent that I could use at say just below the level it goes off at that might pick up a speaker / tweeter fault?

Originally Posted by deano86

Plain and simple your receiver is going into protect mode and shutting down. You are drawing too much currrent to drive your speakers. Are you running them all full range? With subwoofers, you definitely shouldn't be....Make sure you are using your subs for everything below 80hz. That will take a big load off of your receiver. What ohm are your speakers? 8ohm, 6ohm, etc. the lower the value the harder it is on your receiver. Does it shut down if you are running only in stereo mode with just the front two speakers and subs?

Originally Posted by clevedon

Hi there again, here are the speaker/sub specs
Centre - Wharfedale 9CS, 120w, 6ohm
Fronts and Side Surrounds - Wharfedale 9.6, 200w, 6ohm
Rear Surrounds - Mission MHT ds, 100w, 8ohm
Subs - Wharfedale PowerCube 12+ 150w
If someone could tell me the best settings for the receiver and which menu to set them in, that would be great.
Also what would be the best crossover frequency/volume would be best for the subs.
Should I run the Audyssey setup again afterwards as well?
Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by deano86

I assume your subs are hooked up using the subwoofer preout jack and RCA cables with a splitter? Then either set your subs control panel for "crossover bypass" if it has one or just set them for the highest crossover frequency they got. Set the sub volumes to the midpoint - no higher. I would just run Audyssey and then when it is done and saved, go into the receiver's Speaker Configuration settings and check where it set your crossover levels... chances are it is setting all or some of your speakers at full range. Change these crossovers to at least 60hz for your fronts and maybe 80 hz for the rest of your speakers and let your subs take the low frequency load from your receiver. That should help tremendously....Do your speakers have a sensitivity rating in db?

Originally Posted by deano86

Those are pretty good sensitivity levels, so from that standpoint, they shouldn't be tough for your receiver to drive them to a good volume level. Now if for some reason your speakers real world ohm level is closer to 4 ohms than the 6 specified, then that could explain your receiver starting to balk at driving all speakers at a higher volume level.... Just for the sake of testing, if you wanted to stop Audyssey at just 3 positions for now; do it. And then manually go in and change those crossovers higher for your speakers and give it a shot with a movie and see what happens. If all is well, then go and do all 8 positions when you have more time... Also let me know what Audyssey sets your trim levels at for all your speakers. EXAMPLE. Front -4, Center -6, surround -5 and so on....

Originally Posted by clevedon

Will do, will run through it soon and the watch Avatar on Blu-ray that we picked up yesterday and let you know how we got on tomorrow, thanks very much.

Originally Posted by JM22681

Hi,

After owning this receiver for 3 years, I finally have an HDTV and Blu-Ray player that is capable of Dolby TrueHD sound and I wanted to test it out. I've set my LG Blu-Ray BD-570 player to primary pass-thru and 192khz as the Blu-Ray manual suggested, and the HDMI is going directly from Blu-Ray to Receiver, then out the Receiver to the TV. I watched The Dark Knight last night which is has TrueHD sound capabilities although the receiver only seemed to detect it as "Dolby D". I will say it did sound much better than any Dolby Digital 5.1 that I am used to, so I'm wondering if the receiver just mis-detected it?

A couple of other things I'll point out:

I did find in the Onkyo manual a reference to an incompatibility or problem with 192khz TrueHD sound, and it mentioned something about 96khz w/o tone control. I did try 192, 96 and 48, none of which changed the detection on the Onkyo to TrueHD.

The receiver showed a "D" in red on the screen. Not sure if this is expected with TrueHD?

I believe I'm using HDMI 1.3 or 1.3a cables, is there a pre-requisite for any specific version of the cable?

So, my questions...what am I doing wrong, or was I indeed listening to TrueHD sound?

Originally Posted by HTPC8813

I use HTPC for everything including eatching TV, listening to music, watch DVD/BD movie. I connect 705 using HDMI cable from ATI 5450.

I have 1 5.1 speaker setup and recently I configured the speaker configuration to remove the 'double base' because for some movie, I found that the L/R speaker's base is somehow poor.

After the configuration, I suddenly found that the base for music is gone and I found that no sound from my sub at all. I set THX for all front and center speaker and the LFE of the sub is set to 120.

For listen mode of PCM input, I tried almost all mode including direct, stereo, THX 5.1, Nero music etc. No sound from the sub. The sub sounds good when I do the speaker testing.

I play music using Windows Media PLayer or Windows Media Center from a HOme Server. All songs are ripped in WMA lose-less format. What 705 receives from the HTPC when playing music is PCM.

ANy comment or suggestions are very appreciated. THanks!