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No SACD sound from Center, Sub, Rear Surrounds on Marantz SR-18
I'm hoping some of the guru's here can help me with a setup issue with
my Marantz SR-18 and my Denon DVD-2900. I've purchased the required cables to connect the 2900 to my SR-18 along with a few SACD and DVD-A discs. I'm sitting here with manuals, remotes, sound meter, and a big "?" above my head cuz I can't get multi channel music to delite me! I'm pretty certain I have the 2900 configured properly, I've gone through the steps and when I play the DVD-A disc the display indicates output to all channels and that it's in DVD-A mode. Same goes for SACD - all indications are that the player is doing its thing properly. I've connected the appropriate cables from the 2900 to the SR-18 as follows: FL1 and FR1 are connected to the L/R CD input on the SR-18 and I've enabled 6-CH Direct for the CD input. The remaining channels from the 2900 are connected to the appropriate Direct inputs on the SR-18, l/r surround, center, and sub. This makes up the 6 individual channels, as I understand it from the (less than adequate) manual. The coax digital output from the 2900 is connected to Dig-4 on the SR-18 and assigned to the DVD input. I get awesome DTS and DD through this input. ------------------- So, I crank things up and I'm playing a DVD-A disc and all I get is stereo output from the front left and right speakers. The SR-18 does not indicate that it is receiving input to the other channels. I can toggle the "Direct" button, same deal, no output from the other channels. I've got the same problem with SACD. I only have output from the 2 front stereo channels. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance! Jeff |
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No SACD sound from Center, Sub, Rear Surrounds on Marantz SR-18
No SACD sound from Center, Sub, Rear Surrounds on Marantz SR-18
Could it be that your SR-18 has an "external decoder" switch? My Yamaha surround amp has this, which overrides all other settings, thus causing the sound to travel via the 6 analog interconnects, which is what needs to happen. |
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No SACD sound from Center, Sub, Rear Surrounds on Marantz SR-18
"Jeff Roberts" wrote in message
news:09zRb.37867$U%5.214783@attbi_s03... I'm hoping some of the guru's here can help me with a setup issue with my Marantz SR-18 and my Denon DVD-2900. I've purchased the required cables to connect the 2900 to my SR-18 along with a few SACD and DVD-A discs. I'm sitting here with manuals, remotes, sound meter, and a big "?" above my head cuz I can't get multi channel music to delite me! I'm pretty certain I have the 2900 configured properly, I've gone through the steps and when I play the DVD-A disc the display indicates output to all channels and that it's in DVD-A mode. Same goes for SACD - all indications are that the player is doing its thing properly. I've connected the appropriate cables from the 2900 to the SR-18 as follows: FL1 and FR1 are connected to the L/R CD input on the SR-18 and I've enabled 6-CH Direct for the CD input. The remaining channels from the 2900 are connected to the appropriate Direct inputs on the SR-18, l/r surround, center, and sub. This makes up the 6 individual channels, as I understand it from the (less than adequate) manual. The coax digital output from the 2900 is connected to Dig-4 on the SR-18 and assigned to the DVD input. I get awesome DTS and DD through this input. ------------------- So, I crank things up and I'm playing a DVD-A disc and all I get is stereo output from the front left and right speakers. The SR-18 does not indicate that it is receiving input to the other channels. I can toggle the "Direct" button, same deal, no output from the other channels. I've got the same problem with SACD. I only have output from the 2 front stereo channels. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance! Jeff, a couple of possibilities come to mind. 1) The receiver may want to take in FL1 and FL2 into some other "front" input. It may be when the receiver is tuned to the CD input, it shuts off the surround, center, and sub channels. 2) Another possible situation is that the receiver has an "either/or" on the audio, so you might have to use the internal decoders on the 2900 for *all* output, and do away with the coax digital input, instead running the video output to an auxiliary input on your tv. 3) A third possibility is that the 2900 is set to output its multichannel via digital coax and you will have to switch it to analog multichannel when you want to play SACD (and possibly DVD-A as well, at least in high-res 96/24 or 192/24. Hope this helps. These things are complicated and the manuals almost uniformly incomplete, confusing, or both. Certainly true of both my Sony and Toshiba manuals. |
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No SACD sound from Center, Sub, Rear Surrounds on Marantz SR-18
On my Philips SACD player you have to use the analog outputs and press the
multi-channel input on the receiver. "Jeff Roberts" wrote in message news:09zRb.37867$U%5.214783@attbi_s03... I'm hoping some of the guru's here can help me with a setup issue with my Marantz SR-18 and my Denon DVD-2900. I've purchased the required cables to connect the 2900 to my SR-18 along with a few SACD and DVD-A discs. I'm sitting here with manuals, remotes, sound meter, and a big "?" above my head cuz I can't get multi channel music to delite me! I'm pretty certain I have the 2900 configured properly, I've gone through the steps and when I play the DVD-A disc the display indicates output to all channels and that it's in DVD-A mode. Same goes for SACD - all indications are that the player is doing its thing properly. I've connected the appropriate cables from the 2900 to the SR-18 as follows: FL1 and FR1 are connected to the L/R CD input on the SR-18 and I've enabled 6-CH Direct for the CD input. The remaining channels from the 2900 are connected to the appropriate Direct inputs on the SR-18, l/r surround, center, and sub. This makes up the 6 individual channels, as I understand it from the (less than adequate) manual. The coax digital output from the 2900 is connected to Dig-4 on the SR-18 and assigned to the DVD input. I get awesome DTS and DD through this input. ------------------- So, I crank things up and I'm playing a DVD-A disc and all I get is stereo output from the front left and right speakers. The SR-18 does not indicate that it is receiving input to the other channels. I can toggle the "Direct" button, same deal, no output from the other channels. I've got the same problem with SACD. I only have output from the 2 front stereo channels. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance! Jeff |
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No SACD sound from Center, Sub, Rear Surrounds on Marantz SR-18
Jeff Roberts wrote:
I'm hoping some of the guru's here can help me with a setup issue with my Marantz SR-18 and my Denon DVD-2900. I've purchased the required cables to connect the 2900 to my SR-18 along with a few SACD and DVD-A discs. I'm sitting here with manuals, remotes, sound meter, and a big "?" above my head cuz I can't get multi channel music to delite me! I'm pretty certain I have the 2900 configured properly, I've gone through the steps and when I play the DVD-A disc the display indicates output to all channels and that it's in DVD-A mode. Same goes for SACD - all indications are that the player is doing its thing properly. I've connected the appropriate cables from the 2900 to the SR-18 as follows: FL1 and FR1 are connected to the L/R CD input on the SR-18 and I've enabled 6-CH Direct for the CD input. The remaining channels from the 2900 are connected to the appropriate Direct inputs on the SR-18, l/r surround, center, and sub. This makes up the 6 individual channels, as I understand it from the (less than adequate) manual. The coax digital output from the 2900 is connected to Dig-4 on the SR-18 and assigned to the DVD input. I get awesome DTS and DD through this input. ------------------- So, I crank things up and I'm playing a DVD-A disc and all I get is stereo output from the front left and right speakers. The SR-18 does not indicate that it is receiving input to the other channels. I can toggle the "Direct" button, same deal, no output from the other channels. I've got the same problem with SACD. I only have output from the 2 front stereo channels. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance! Presuming you are actually listening to the 6-channel analog input of the receiver rather than a two-channel analog or digial input (easily tested by removing any connections except the 6-channel ones) , the first thing I'd check is that the Denon is accessing the multichannel version of whatever disc you have inserted. Many SACDs have 2-channel SACD and CD layers in addition to 6-channel. Most DVD-As have a stereo mix as well as 6-channel mix. You have to tell your player to default to these, or else select them manually. -- -S. "They've got God on their side. All we've got is science and reason." -- Dawn Hulsey, Talent Director |
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