Issues with my changer...

[johnb554]

I have just pulled out my DTS 5.1 music cds and loaded them into the new Sony DVP-CX995V but they are not playing the way that I want them to play.

The player is hooked up to my Pioneer Receiver via Toslink cable. When I load the DTS disc in and hit play, it is recognized and played and the little DTS symbol shows up on the cd player but not the receiver. the receiver only gets a 2 channel stereo signal.

If i load the DTS disc into a cheap crappy 20 dollar Daytek dvd player and hook it up to the pioneer with a coax. cable, the cd plays and the DTS symbol lights up on my receiver and i get the full surround signal. Sounds perfect...

I think i just need to somehow disable the DTS decoder on the player and leave the decoding up to the receiver. I checked in the manual but didnt find anything about it.

Any ideas??

John

 

[Seth=L]

The player should not be decoding it internally. Does the player support SACD?

Be sure the SPDIF output (toslink) is set to bitstream. If there are options in the menu for Dolby Digital and DTS, be sure they are on.

 

[enrique]

Is your player also connected via analog to your reciever?I may be mistaken but it may be running analog and not digital.You have to enable the digital input in your receiver for the cd player.My player is connected both ways ,for analog or digital i have to enable the proper input in the reciever.

 

[Seth=L]

Is your player also connected via analog to your reciever?I may be mistaken but it may be running analog and not digital.You have to enable the digital input in your receiver for the cd player.My player is connected both ways ,for analog or digital i have to enable the proper input in the reciever.

He is using a DVD player, multi-disc changer. And most DVD players don't decode DTS internally unless they are a DVD-audio player (maybe even SACD playing DVD players have DTS decoders) but if it doesn't have the DTS decoder (most likely doesn't) then it would either not output anything via analog or it would produce loud static noise.

 

[enrique]

misread the post.

 

[johnb554]

He is using a DVD player, multi-disc changer. And most DVD players don't decode DTS internally unless they are a DVD-audio player (maybe even SACD playing DVD players have DTS decoders) but if it doesn't have the DTS decoder (most likely doesn't) then it would either not output anything via analog or it would produce loud static noise.

Alright, i figured it out.

There was an audio setting in the setup menu that I never knew existed. under the DTS setting, the audio output was set to PCM and I chose DTS instead and now it seems to work. turns out some of my cds were even 6.1 channels. hurray.

P.S Yes it does play sacd's but those are expensive. downloading DTS cd's is much cheaper.

 

[Seth=L]

Glad it is working correctly now. PCM would mess it up.