multi-ch input...??

[Sounds Good]

how does this work? i noticed i have on multi gh input on the back of my onkyo ts-dx777 what is an example of a multi ch player?

 

[satish536]

sacd, dvd-a players

 

[Sounds Good]

so i would connect the R, L, C, RR, RL, Sub out puts from the player to my reciever via rcas?

 

[Alex2507]

so i would connect the R, L, C, RR, RL, Sub out puts from the player to my reciever via rcas?

That's right.

 

[Sounds Good]

what is the advantage to doing this? whould hooking it up with a optical conection and letting the reciever do the decoding be just the same?

 

[UFObuster]

what is the advantage to doing this? whould hooking it up with a optical conection and letting the reciever do the decoding be just the same?

This is how DVD-A or SACD is played back. If you have a player that reads these formats, you must use the analog connectors. The player decodes the recording and sends multi-channel discreet lossless analog to your pre-amp. It's not compressed and the playback quality is finer. Using opitical works, but it is a compressed signal losing a little quality which is the whole point of using SACD or DVD-A anyway.

 

[no. 5]

what is the advantage to doing this? whould hooking it up with a optical conection and letting the reciever do the decoding be just the same?

For SACD and DVD-A, that would not work, because of copyright issues S/PDIF (the optical or coax connection) will not carry the information from off those sources, and even if it could, you would need a receiver that had the decoders for DVD-A and SACD built in.

I would like to add that the other use for the multi-channel input is that of allowing you to access the high resolution audio from HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs with out using HDMI.