Yamaha V465 question.

[WVHick]

My receiver, or maybe Blu-Ray player, confuses me. If I'm playing a Blu-Ray movie, and have the "bass out" on the receiver set to subwoofer, everything is perfect. If I'm playing a DVD or CD, and have the bass out set to subwoofer on the receiver, the subwoofer doesn't play anything. If I switch the "bass out" to "front" on the receiver, it still doesn't play anything. Only when I set the bass out to both does the subwoofer play anything. Why is this?

 

[WVHick]

Wow, that was redundant.

 

[j_garcia]

How is the player connected to the receiver? HDMI?

 

[Adam]

Hi. The 465 won't send a signal to the subwoofer if you have "Bass Out" set to "SWFR" with a two-channel source. A two-channel source requires you to set it to "Both" to get a signal sent to the subwoofer.

For a CD, that makes sense to me. For a DVD, do you have the surround mode set to stereo?

 

[WVHick]

Hi. The 465 won't send a signal to the subwoofer if you have "Bass Out" set to "SWFR" with a two-channel source. A two-channel source requires you to set it to "Both" to get a signal sent to the subwoofer.

For a CD, that makes sense to me. For a DVD, do you have the surround mode set to stereo?

I don't think I have the surround mode set to stereo. I understand the CD part though, and can live with this.

 

[WVHick]

How is the player connected to the receiver? HDMI?

It's connected through HDMI.

 

[Adam]

I don't think I have the surround mode set to stereo.

The only other thing that came to mind when I read your first post was that the output from the player might be set to PCM instead of bitstream, but I would think that would affect blu-ray audio the same as DVD audio if you are using HDMI.

Which disc player are you using?

 

[WVHick]

It's a Sony SDp-350 or something like that. Anyhow, I'm over this whole thing because I can just set the receiver to both. What I am confused about is the crossover on the receiver. It doesn't seem to do anything. Regardless of what I have the bass out set to on the receiver, my fronts play bass. No matter where I put the crossover point at, my fronts never change in sound. I don't have any other speakers besides two fronts and a sub. I have the fronts set to "large". Is all this right?

 

[j_garcia]

If you set them to large you are bypassing the crossover to those speakers, so no that is technically not correct.

 

[WVHick]

If you set them to large you are bypassing the crossover to those speakers, so no that is technically not correct.

Ok, thanks. So should I do it this way, or set them to small and the crossover to 80hz for my sub? They are Polk TSi300's by the way. Not that great so I doubt they can handle much bass properly.