Hi Everybody!

I recently purchased a Kenwood Home Theatre system that included a
VR-707 receiver. My problem is the following. My digital cable box has
a digital-out and analog-out. I have the digital-out connected to the
Video-2 digital-in. When listening to the digital music channels on
my cable box I cannot get the receiver to get loud enough. Volume
stops at –8dB and the sound is there but just not very loud. When I
play CDs through my DVD player (digital out on player to DVD digital
in on receiver) the volume level goes to –4dB and the output speaker
volume is at ear-splitting levels. Can you please explain what is
going on? How can I make my digital cable music channels loud?

I've tried adjusting the cable box settings (changing volume from
fixed to variable, increasing the volume control on the cable box,
etc.) – no luck.

I've tried going from analog-out on cable box to analog-in on video –
2 – no luck.
I've changed input and listen modes on the receiver – no luck.

Please help explain what is going on and offer a remedy. One sure
solution is to get a Digital Signal Processor that can adjust the
digital ouput of my cable box before it gets to my receiver digital
inputs – increasing gain and equalizing things – but those are
expensive.

Thanks!

-Oliver

perhaps the output of the cable box is just lousy?


"Oliver" wrote in message
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Hi Everybody!

I recently purchased a Kenwood Home Theatre system that included a
VR-707 receiver. My problem is the following. My digital cable box has
a digital-out and analog-out. I have the digital-out connected to the
Video-2 digital-in. When listening to the digital music channels on
my cable box I cannot get the receiver to get loud enough. Volume
stops at -8dB and the sound is there but just not very loud. When I
play CDs through my DVD player (digital out on player to DVD digital
in on receiver) the volume level goes to -4dB and the output speaker
volume is at ear-splitting levels. Can you please explain what is
going on? How can I make my digital cable music channels loud?

I've tried adjusting the cable box settings (changing volume from
fixed to variable, increasing the volume control on the cable box,
etc.) - no luck.

I've tried going from analog-out on cable box to analog-in on video -
2 - no luck.
I've changed input and listen modes on the receiver - no luck.

Please help explain what is going on and offer a remedy. One sure
solution is to get a Digital Signal Processor that can adjust the
digital ouput of my cable box before it gets to my receiver digital
inputs - increasing gain and equalizing things - but those are
expensive.

Thanks!

-Oliver