[Andrew Barss[_2_]]

Gary Eickmeier wrote:
: Super maddening, trying to calibrate your system by referring to the manual
: that came with the receiver. Mine has 5 standards, such as Dolby Pro Logic,
: DPL Movie, Music, Neo 6 Cinema, Music. Then there are 6 Advanced Surround
: modes, such as Adv Movie, Adv Music, 6-Stereo, etc. But they don't tell you
: what each mode does to the signal, they give colorful descriptions such as
: "especially suited to movie sources" or "especially suited to music
: sources."

I sympathize. I recently moved everything in my living room, and
disconnected and reconnected all the electronics. I have a Squeezebox
Classic, which has analog and digital-optical outputs. I wanted to
take advantage of the DAC in the Squeezebox, so connected it to my
receiver with analog cables, and discovered that even analog inputs are
usually converted to digital and then re-analogized. The manual is really
unclear on what happens to analog signals, and whether e.g., the RCA jacks
for the tape inoput and the ones for the game imput go through the same or
different processing routes.

Very frustrating. (The receover is an Onkyo TX-SR706, if anyone has the
answer, or a recommendation on which inoput to use to not get the
SB outputs reprocessed).

-- Andy Barss