Confused

[Bob Leonard]

Most all major brands of receivers, and processors have some form of auto calibration, and auto eq. I have read on some of the forums that if you have the auto calibration engaged “set on” when playing a Blu-Ray with the bitstream going to your processor, it will not play Dolby True HD or DTS Master. The reasoning for this is there is not enough processing power for both. Is this correct? I am somewhat confused.

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

Auto calibration is only run when initially setting up the system, and that’s it. The only thing “on” after that are the level settings and equalization the calibration resulted in. If a receiver doesn’t have enough processing power to operate its calibration settings and Dolby or DTS at the same time, it must be a really cheap receiver. But even then, I can’t imagine any respectable manufacturer putting their name on even their bottom-of-line models if they behaved like that.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[Montucky]

Exactly. In a nutshell, calibration basically helps you set your distance and db+/- settings for all of your speakers/sub. If it can't run your different codecs AND its calibrated settings at the same time, then it must either be broken or just a cheap hunk of junk.

 

[agarwalro]

Most all major brands of receivers, and processors have some form of auto calibration, and auto eq. I have read on some of the forums that if you have the auto calibration engaged “set on” when playing a Blu-Ray with the bitstream going to your processor, it will not play Dolby True HD or DTS Master. The reasoning for this is there is not enough processing power for both. Is this correct? I am somewhat confused.

I have never heard this. Even entry level receivers can engage processing (bass management, EQ and sound modes) while decoding HD audio formats.