For your point 6), you really need to do a speaker spl calibration every time you switch players or receivers. I think your 3805 does all of that for you (auto-eq). With my H/K & Denon combo, I use an SPL meter and DVE. Anyway, this must be done!
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I haven't seen a surround sound receiver that didn't have some sort of speaker config/sound level screen. Any receiver worth it's weight would have a method of calibrating the speakers for proper surround levels. At least test tones. What model of receiver do you have? (Plus, anyone spending $700 on a dvd player most likely has a higher-end receiver with such functions!).
I think with the 2910 set to SOURCE DIRECT, I bypass all the speaker / level stuff, and the pure soundtrack info is fed to the receiver, which has been calibrated correctly for proper speaker levels, delays, etc.
Manually turn down the TV? That would mean I have to remember to do that!
| Originally posted by BillP 1. Because not everybody has a receiver that does speaker configuration (I don't). 3. Just manually turn down the volume on your TV to zero when listening through your receiver. |
I think with the 2910 set to SOURCE DIRECT, I bypass all the speaker / level stuff, and the pure soundtrack info is fed to the receiver, which has been calibrated correctly for proper speaker levels, delays, etc.
Manually turn down the TV? That would mean I have to remember to do that!
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Not everyone has a surround sound system. I have an outstanding 2-channel stereo system (bought for music, not movies), which includes a 2-channel Rotel preamp and power amp with no digital inputs or speaker configuration (not needed for 2-channel). I went this way since I spend much more time critically listening to CDs than watching movies.
| Originally posted by dmylrea I haven't seen a surround sound receiver that didn't have some sort of speaker config/sound level screen. Any receiver worth it's weight would have a method of calibrating the speakers for proper surround levels. At least test tones. What model of receiver do you have? (Plus, anyone spending $700 on a dvd player most likely has a higher-end receiver with such functions!). |
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I certainly understand, but it would seem odd to incorporate a feature like speaker configuration for the fraction of a percent of the buying public that would purchase this, a mid-high end DVD player, to listen to music through their 2 channel receiver.
Not to mention, if you only have 2 channels, what is there to calibrate?
In any case, in fiddling with the audio setup options, i've set the HDMI output to "MULTICHANNEL", even though it plugs into my TV, and now the speaker configuration option is GONE in the setup, so I presume I am passing pure, unadulterated audio to the digital outputs.
Plus, since i've done that, the surrounds sound much better.
Thanks!
| Originally posted by BillP Not everyone has a surround sound system. I have an outstanding 2-channel stereo system (bought for music, not movies), which includes a 2-channel Rotel preamp and power amp with no digital inputs or speaker configuration (not needed for 2-channel). I went this way since I spend much more time critically listening to CDs than watching movies. |
Not to mention, if you only have 2 channels, what is there to calibrate?
In any case, in fiddling with the audio setup options, i've set the HDMI output to "MULTICHANNEL", even though it plugs into my TV, and now the speaker configuration option is GONE in the setup, so I presume I am passing pure, unadulterated audio to the digital outputs.
Plus, since i've done that, the surrounds sound much better.
Thanks!
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