siganl bleed thru?

[sdecker]

I have a 1055 and have my DVD player connected via coaxial, CD player via optical and DirecTivo via analog.

I noticed today some signal bleed thru. I stopped a DVD and heard both DirecTV and CD bleed thru. It was faint by clearly audible :evil:

Do others have this problem? I run ver. 1.49 on my 1055. The only problem I have is that I cant turn off my DirecTivo so I always hear it if the volume is fairly loud and I pause or stop the selected source.

TIA

Earle

[Entice]

Yep, I have the same bleed thru and it is annoying. Don't hear it that much, but nonetheless it still annoys me knowing that it does that.

I also get a hum coming from the speakers whence PL2 is selected. Only tried PL2 on an input from a regular TV/video out, and it doesnt really impress me that much, as it seems that the centre channel does all the work and the others don't do much at all.... Is this so for others?

[Energeezer]

Yep, I have the same bleed thru and it is annoying. Don't hear it that much, but nonetheless it still annoys me knowing that it does that

I have owned Kenwood, Onkyo, Marantz, NAD and now Rotel 1055 and they all do this to some extent. The only solution I know of is to shut off the culprit souce.
Kinda makes ya wonder about the actual quality of these units.
steve




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[Scarp]

I only hear the bleed thru when it doesnt have a lock on the digital signal or analog signal. Try playing a cd that has some silence in it. If you still hear it then there is something wrong with your unit.

[Andrew Pratt]

The reason behind the bleed though is that all the grounds are tied together. Its unavoidable but nothing to worry about unless you like listening to your system with no input selected at high volumes

[sdecker]

Scarp, My 1055 checks out Ok. Thanks for the test info.

Andrew

I usually dont listen to unselected sources loud, I test stumbled on to this while playing around with something.

Earle

[dave]

I know how frustrating these ground problems can be a good friend was experiencing this same problem with his Citation-Parasound setup. What he finally did was went to radio shack & purchased a grounded 8 outlet spike strip with the cable&telephone inputs built in the cost was around 30.00 U.S. anyway this completly solved his problem. No more hum or feedback through his cable or his phone. I hope this will help :idea:




dave

[Kevin D]

Entice,

PLII needs to be tweaked to your tastes and room. By default the center width is too narrow, spread it out one or two clicks. Also panorama is off by default. Turning it on mixes some of the info to the rears. This can be done by going to the input menu, selecting PLII with the left/right keys, and then hitting enter to go to advanced settings.

Kevin D.