Suggestions needed for 5.1 Speakers - bought Yamaha YHT 196

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The installation guys yet to arrive and do it. But I m now low on patience. Its been 4 days they have been delivered and I can not use it.

How important is installation done by them ? Like is there any specific tuning up required ?
 
its better you wait for them, or if you really want to proceed with the installation by yourself. there are quite few good videos on Youtube explaining everything, i say you go through them first.
 
Setting up AVR is pretty straight forward. Just make sure the positioning is right, and that the volume levels are properly calibrated.

You will definitely want to look at calibration tutorials. There are some advanced ones on AV forums.
Or you can get calibration discs like AVS, DVE or Disney WOW. The latter is pretty simple to use for setting up.
Demo World has good content to test too once you've got everything up and running. Use HDMI wherever you can.
 
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Yes, I will do something about tuning up things when I m back there. Thanks for the inputs.

One behaviour which I noticed from my small evening with HT was that my HDMI was not delivering 5.1 signal to it. I tried to test it with couple of movies and CoD:MW 2. In game I set audio settings at 5.1 but when checked for signal information, it would say its 2.0. Sound from all 5 speaker could be heard only if selected '5.1 Ch enhancer'; which is not true 5.1

HDMI out was taken from my graphic card, HD6950 with AMD Catalyst 14.4
 
no 5.1 output from HDMI? could you be more specific with the movies? like the audio format of the file? & the player you are using?
Also you need to mess with the Windows/AMD sound settings... make sure they are set to 5.1 & HDMI as the default audio output & also update your AMD GPU's HDMI audio drivers.

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hector19 said:
could you be more specific with the movies? like the audio format of the file? & the player you are using?
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I tried Pirates of Caribbean 4 with AC3 audio. In CoD:MW 2, I explicitly set audio to 5.1 setting. As you told, I might need to do play around with Sound settings of Windows / AMD.
 
Firstly, you need to make sure the video file supports the 5.1 encoding (DTS/DD), if you have done that make sure that your AVR is on the 'auto' mode and not selected to 2.1, if most your existing files are 2.1 encoding as would most likely be the case, just enjoy as is, or max you can do is output sound out of the 5 satellite speakers.
 
Jasku said:
Firstly, you need to make sure the video file supports the 5.1 encoding (DTS/DD), if you have done that make sure that your AVR is on the 'auto' mode and not selected to 2.1, if most your existing files are 2.1 encoding as would most likely be the case, just enjoy as is, or max you can do is output sound out of the 5 satellite speakers.
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For movies I can have proper check only when I am back there and have a careful look. But what about game ? As mentioned earlier, I tried CoD:MW2 with audio settings set to 5.1.
 
Check your Windows Sound settings 1st. Also I hope it is a PC to AVR to TV connection via HDMI.

Movie -
Go to properties (media info) when viewing the movie. Take a snapshot and post it here. The number of channels should be 6 Channels and not stereo upmixed. Also you may have to set up your video player audio output to make sure AAC, AC3, DTS, DD5.1 are passed through to your AVR. I quit VLC and went through a couple of players before choosing MPC-HC with madVR video processing.

Games -
You shouldn't have to set up sounds explicitly. It detects automatically.

Use Assassin's HTPC guide.
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-ho...simple-beginner-htpc-buying-guide-2015-a.html

I'll post my Home Theater pics too it's been 6 months now.
 
quixand said:
Also I hope it is a PC to AVR to TV connection via HDMI.
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Nope. I am yet to buy TV - probably have to wait 3 more months. Currently display is on Dell ST2220L via DVI and audio routed via HDMI to AVR, both from my graphic card - HD6950.
 
@vyral_143 - although i haven't ever used an HTiB like this and can't comment much on troubleshooting this issue, but this is what i got to read in a post on HFV:

Although it cant decode HD-audio, it can accept LPCM decoded by BDp, so can enjoy HD-audio too.
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perhaps this gives any kind of hint to you, or may be its irrelevant to the issue at hand.
 
vyral_143 said:
Nope. I am yet to buy TV - probably have to wait 3 more months. Currently display is on Dell ST2220L via DVI and audio routed via HDMI to AVR, both from my graphic card - HD6950.
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Yeah that should work too. Also since the AVR is not DTS-HD capable you can use Optical cable for sound if you have one already. But that is a last ditch option. Windows settings should be set up first.
 
Had similar issue with my AVR. reset it once and it played well.Make sure the media stream is indeed 5.1 and also make sure it passes out the raw to avr and that avr doesn't change it on fly.
 
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Finally I m back in India for little over half week and got time to check audio settings for this one. As pointed out in above posts, I did configure Sound to 5.1 and it worked. Yet to test games but tried same movie and can notice difference. Played some songs also and it plays it nicely; though feel bass is little lesser for my liking.
 
You should be able to control the Crossover frequency from the same sound settings. Else just turn up the Subwoofer or use the Crawl method to place it in the right spot :)
 
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