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i just bought this dinosaur from ebay yesterday. man this thing has power forever. i couldnt imagine hooking an amp to it, even thought it has all 6 channel pre-outs.
the setup:
ps3 via optical to v995 (audio)
ps3 via hdmi to 47lg70 (video)
motorola via optical to v995 (audio)
motorola via hdmi to 47lg70 (video)
no video connections to the receiver. i dont have any svideo devices anymore.. except wii...
with my other recievers vsx-519 the ps3 showed via the audio setting that it would out up to 5.1 pcm
with the denon 1910 the ps3 showed it would out up to 7.1pcm
with the v995 hooked to it , the ps3 shows only 2.1 pcm.. this is a big let down in that i assumed that if it did pcm it could do 5.1 pcm as well.. apparently unless i am missing a setting 5.1 pcm wasnt happening back in the late 90's!1?
why is this a problem you ask? well because i only 2 front speakers and the rear sub active when i am trying to get dts-hdma surround from the p3 (movie source is master and commander - it supports hdma)
now if i use the yamaha dsp settings with effects on and input to auto then it takes the pcm signal and does its yamaha magic and makes it a FANTASTIC sounding full surround experience. the yamaha dsp has what they call 70mm adventure sound from one of the modes and 70mm scifi from one of the others.. the adventure mode sounds great on master and commander. now all the reading that i have done tells me that this processing is supposed to make it sound like teh poo poo compared to direct unmolested 7.1pcm
i guess old ears like old things, i dont know but the dsp processed (magic) 5.1 dts just screams power and clarity on my speakers.. it sounds 10 times better than the hdmi lossless hdma that i experienced on the denon 1910.. of course i fully admit that i may not have had the denon set up properly after 1 month of reading the manual night and day and adjusting the settings, microprocessor resets.. etc etc...
the yamaha took much less time to make it sound like the movie theatre was robbed and reassembled in my living room.. more to follow if you guys are interested...
the setup:
ps3 via optical to v995 (audio)
ps3 via hdmi to 47lg70 (video)
motorola via optical to v995 (audio)
motorola via hdmi to 47lg70 (video)
no video connections to the receiver. i dont have any svideo devices anymore.. except wii...
with my other recievers vsx-519 the ps3 showed via the audio setting that it would out up to 5.1 pcm
with the denon 1910 the ps3 showed it would out up to 7.1pcm
with the v995 hooked to it , the ps3 shows only 2.1 pcm.. this is a big let down in that i assumed that if it did pcm it could do 5.1 pcm as well.. apparently unless i am missing a setting 5.1 pcm wasnt happening back in the late 90's!1?
why is this a problem you ask? well because i only 2 front speakers and the rear sub active when i am trying to get dts-hdma surround from the p3 (movie source is master and commander - it supports hdma)
now if i use the yamaha dsp settings with effects on and input to auto then it takes the pcm signal and does its yamaha magic and makes it a FANTASTIC sounding full surround experience. the yamaha dsp has what they call 70mm adventure sound from one of the modes and 70mm scifi from one of the others.. the adventure mode sounds great on master and commander. now all the reading that i have done tells me that this processing is supposed to make it sound like teh poo poo compared to direct unmolested 7.1pcm

the yamaha took much less time to make it sound like the movie theatre was robbed and reassembled in my living room.. more to follow if you guys are interested...