Locking the CD setup on a Yamaha DVD player?

[sam2095]

I have a new Yamaha DVD player (DC-750). I have plugged this into my Yamaha AX-497 Stereo amp.

The DVD player allows playing of SACDs etc and has upsampling of regular CDs.

Great idea but the problem is that every time I put in a regular CD it automatically switches to Multi-channel Pro Logic II and have to go into the setup and change it to Upsampling Stereo.

I have tried everything I can think of to stop this happenning but I cannot seem to lock into playing CDs in Stereo / up sampling.

Is this expected behaviour? Anyone know how I can lock CDs into Stereo?

Many thanks, Sam.

 

[aberkowitz]

In my experience this is done through the receiver. I have an Onkyo 805, and there's an entire menu for listening mode setup in which I can set the default listening mode based on input as well as the available decodable tracks (e.g. DD, DTS). I'm not familiar with the Yammy amp that you have, but have you tried looking in the setup menus for something similar?

Hope I'm not way off base here...

 

[j_garcia]

Yamahas have a setting for use last setting or auto detect; I believe some can do this per input, but not sure. It sounds like you may have it set to auto and it is using PL because that is what it thinks is the right thing. Also, if it is a stereo receiver, why does it have PL processing at all? Stereo receivers typically have no DSP.

 

[no. 5]

Also, if it is a stereo receiver, why does it have PL processing at all? Stereo receivers typically have no DSP.

I think he's talking about the disc player that defaults to PL II, I think that because my DVD-C750 does the same thing.

I do not know how to defeat that "feature", but I do know how to get it to stereo without going into the menu; there is a button below the power button on the remote labeled "sound mode", press that until "stereo" appears on the players display.

 

[sam2095]

I think he's talking about the disc player that defaults to PL II, I think that because my DVD-C750 does the same thing.

I do not know how to defeat that "feature", but I do know how to get it to stereo without going into the menu; there is a button below the power button on the remote labeled "sound mode", press that until "stereo" appears on the players display.

No.5 is correct. When I said "it" switches I mean the DVD player switches to PLII. Sorry for the mixup (and yes it is a stereo amp so no setup required there).

I've found the "Sound Mode" button on the remote and yes it is very easy to switch to "Stereo" that way but the CD Up Sampling has been switched off as a result of going into PLII and the only way to switch that back on is through the setup menu.

In other words for each and EVERY CD I firstly press "play" (which switches to PLII), then "Setup", then navigate to "Audio" and switch on Upsampling (which also switches on "Stereo") - very boring.

Looks like I may have bought a medium quality DVD player (as a backup) rather than a CD player with Upsampling. I bought it refurbished on the web so (a) cheap (50%) and (b) difficult to return.

I did my research before hand but a quirk like this is not obvious - bummer