Bass Management on 1098

[jimmyp58]

Does the 1098 have bass management? I just ordered mine and forgot to ask this important question. Hope I didn't make a mistake!

Also, are there more video/vertical line problems?

[Andrew Pratt]

Jimmy yes the 1098 has very good bass management. Its far more flexible then the 1055 and 1066 were in that regard. You might want to read though the owners manual that you can get from the Rotel website since its very well written.

[Azeke]

Jimmy,

Welcome to the forum.

Andrew is correct, this beast has beautiful bass management as well as other speaker adjustments, which makes speaker blending much easier. Acoustically, it's great.

Video issues, you may need to read the Video glitch thread, it seems that they have updated the firmware to 1.1 xxxxx, however I am unsure whether this is merely a firmware upgrade or a firmware/ hardware upgrade, I am currently having my dealer investigate this issue. It seems that this video glitch is applicable to progressive scan issues in the 480p mode ( I think).

I am still puzzled however why Rotel dropped the video band width to 100Mhz on the 1098 as opposed to maintaining the 200MHz bandwith that the newer 1066's have.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?

Currently I am not running progressive scan so this is not issue for me, however I don't want it to be an issue in the future, that's why I'm having my dealer investigate. He stated he would get back to me in the next couple of days. I will report my findings on the forum, unless Andrew can find out first, (any thoughts Andrew?).

Regards,

Azeke

[skipm]

I am still puzzled however why Rotel dropped the video band width to 100Mhz on the 1098 as opposed to maintaining the 200MHz bandwith that the newer 1066's have.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?

Azeke-

Personally, I'm not too worried. Supposedly you only need 37Mhz of bandwidth to pass a HDTV signal so if you have 100Mhz of bandwidth available, you have a lot of additional headroom available. More than likely it was a cost cutting measure.

My old Denon receiver only had 50Mhz available and I never noticed a problem with it.

-Skip

[Azeke]

Skipm,

Thanks for the info, I believe that the 100MHz bandwith is the THX minimal requirement. I also thought like you that this was a cost cutting measure to ensure that the 1098 remains below the 3K range.

Regards,

Azeke

[Andrew Pratt]

I am still puzzled however why Rotel dropped the video band width to 100Mhz on the 1098 as opposed to maintaining the 200MHz bandwith that the newer 1066's have.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?

100 MHz is still plenty for HD so I'm not at all worried about it. From talking to Rotel about the video issues some have seen I was told that they suspect that some of them had a rough flight over from Japan being rushed over to get them to the market as soon as possible. The later ones might not have been rushed and are likely to be ok which is what seems to have happened when you took it back and got another one. If you do have a problem just have your dealer give you another and it should be fine.

[Azeke]

Andrew,

Thanks for the information. It also seems Rotel has upgraded the firmware to 1.1 xxxxxx. Do you have any information on this?

Regards,

Azeke

[rlin]

How do you check version of firmware on 1098?

[Howie]

Hold the mute button on the remote down a few seconds.




Howie

[Andrew Pratt]

Do you have any information on this?

I'm working on it.