I have a Yamaha player that plays DVD-A connected via coaxial and not multichannel and bought a DVD-A that is supposed to play DTS and Dolby Digital, but am not able to, it only plays dolby prologic. How can I get my 1055 to switch to DTS or Dolby Digital when playing this DVD-A? Thanks in advance!
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DVDA's that have DTS and Dolby Digital tracks are designed to be backward compatible with regular DVD players. When played through a regular DVD player, you can select which one you would like.
When you put one into a DVDA player it will play the DVD-audio tracks through the multi-outputs and a downmixed stereo output will come through the digital connection.
I don't know of a way to force a DVDA player to not play the DVDA track. That kind of defeats the purpose. Any reason you haven't hooked up the mutli-channel cables?
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The main reason I haven't connected it is because this is my first DVD-A, so didn't have the need for it and also because of the double bass issue with my 1055. Thanks for your help Kevin.Comment
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You won't be listening to the high-res tracks then though..... :scratchhead:JasonComment
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Will I hear a big difference in sound between multi-channel and my current play back?Comment
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Depends on the quality of your gear... but yes... I mean that's the whole point of high-res!
JasonComment
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Just another data point if you wanted to wait on the multi-input. I installed a Yamaha DVDA/SACD player today. In the setup menu was an option titled 'DVD-A Playback' or close to that. Options under that were DVD-Audio, DVD-Video.
Setting it to DVD-Video essentially disabled the DVD-A portion of the player (and killing the whole point of getting a DVD-A disc).. This was a DVD-S657. Check you menu's and you might have the same option.
Kevin D.Comment
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Currently running B&W CM 4's as mains and CMC bi-amped with 1075/1055 and CM2 rears. Planning on buying cables and giving it a shot :T Thanks for your inputs!Originally posted by aud19Depends on the quality of your gear... but yes... I mean that's the whole point of high-res!Comment
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Kevin thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that but am also planning on buying the extra cables to give the multi channel thing a shot!!Comment
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But first to check if your 5.1 works fine.....
http://www.sr.se/multikanal/english/e_index.stm
Download the last item called "Multichannelcheck" in either DD or DTS. It's in Swedish but that makes no difference, it will do the job.
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