I am in the the opposite situation of most people. My receiver (Yamaha DSP-A1) does have bass management on the analog inputs.
I just got a Denon 2900 and after a few days of tinkering I think I have figured out the best way to set it up, but I wanted some feedback from the experts on this forum to make sure some of my assumptions are correct.
Assumption #1 – the Yamaha is going to do bass management on the signals from the 2900 regardless of how I configure it. Therefore I have set the speaker settings to “Large†in the Denon thereby turning Off bass management from it. Is this correct? I did note when I had the Denon set to “Multi-channel†with speakers set to “Small†there was less bass in my music… is this because I was applying bass management twice?
Assumption #2 – I currently just have 2 analog interconnects hooked up and am listening to everything in Stereo mode, but I have ordered 3 new pairs of interconnects which should arrive any day. I am thinking since I have all the speakers set to “Large†I should only connect 5 of the inter-connects and not hook up the Subwoofer connection. The reasoning is that the Yamaha is receiving the Full signal and applying the bass management.
Assumption #3 – The Yamaha does Not have a pure direct mode? Is my receiver converting the signal from the Denon back to digital to apply bass management and then back to analog again through its DACs? Is this bad?
I just got a Denon 2900 and after a few days of tinkering I think I have figured out the best way to set it up, but I wanted some feedback from the experts on this forum to make sure some of my assumptions are correct.
Assumption #1 – the Yamaha is going to do bass management on the signals from the 2900 regardless of how I configure it. Therefore I have set the speaker settings to “Large†in the Denon thereby turning Off bass management from it. Is this correct? I did note when I had the Denon set to “Multi-channel†with speakers set to “Small†there was less bass in my music… is this because I was applying bass management twice?
Assumption #2 – I currently just have 2 analog interconnects hooked up and am listening to everything in Stereo mode, but I have ordered 3 new pairs of interconnects which should arrive any day. I am thinking since I have all the speakers set to “Large†I should only connect 5 of the inter-connects and not hook up the Subwoofer connection. The reasoning is that the Yamaha is receiving the Full signal and applying the bass management.
Assumption #3 – The Yamaha does Not have a pure direct mode? Is my receiver converting the signal from the Denon back to digital to apply bass management and then back to analog again through its DACs? Is this bad?