bound4h said:
Hope someone can point me in the right direction:
Right now, I have my DVD Player (which plays DVD-A and SACD) hooked up to my Denon Receiver(AVR-4802) using just the analog audio outputs (one pair, red and white). I also have the option on the DVD Player to hook up 6 channel, as well as Coax/Optical Digital.
I'm pretty sure you're going to want to hook up your DVD player with the digital connection (either coax or Toslink) for digital feed on sound: how're you getting your Dolby signal for movies? The 6 cables are used for your DVD-A and SACD music feeds-when you hook these up and hit "EXT IN" on your reccy your DVD player is doing all the processing, and you're simply using the reccy as an amplifier (go ahead and hit the "Pure Direct" button when listening to SACDs).
bound4h said:
Now my question:
I understand that DVD-A can be formatted for 5.1 surround, which makes it so great, but at the moment I just have two main speakers (B&W DM601 S3) hooked up. On the DVD-A disc that I play, one side is for 2channel stereo, and the other side is for 5.1 surround.
Skip all the stuff I said about multi-channel sound previously, and don't bother using the 5.1 surround sound side on your DVD-A.
bound4h said:
With my current setup (just using the red and white analog RCA cables for the audio output), am I utilizing the DVD-A capabilities? Or can you only get the effect if you plug 6 sperate coax cables to the 6 different speaker outputs on the back of the DVD Player?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
No, you're not using the DVD-A capabilities. Also, even if you plug all 6 cables in to the reccy and player, if you don't have three more speakers and a subwoofer the music will be missing tracks from each recording. Now, that being said, if you hooked up the two front speaker cables and bought some 2-channel SACD discs, you *could* listen to the complete track in this fashion. I've seen SACDs with 2channel stereo, 2 channel SACD, and 5.1 channel SACD, but I've never seen a DVD-A tricked out like that. Take this with a grain of salt-I don't purport to know everything, and as Dylan says "the times, they are a changin'".
Bryan...now go buy some more speakers...
