need help with audio delay!

[Kevin Worley]

I recently purchased a Sony 46XBR2 HDTV, and I am trying desperately to be happy with the purchase. I live in Dallas and have ordered Time-Warner Cable to be installed, but they are booked more than a month out due to high demand of late (I suppose others are sick of Directv as well!). For the moment, I have an upconverting DVD player connected to my (older) Pioneer Elite receiver--VSX43TX via a digital audio coax cable and to the new tv via a HDMI cable. There is a painfully annoying delay from audio to video, but I can't seem to adjust the receiver for audio delay. Am I headed back to spend some more money on a new HDMI compaitble receiver, or is there something else I can do?

 

[Johnd]

Welcome to the forum Kevin!

Your receiver has delays in either 1" or 0.5' increments. Look it up in the manual and adjust accordingly (setup menu). Happy listening.

 

[Kevin Worley]

Thanks, JohnD; flad to be here. Unfortunately, this receiver was a replacement for my previous Elite, which died. I did not receive an owener's manual with the replacement. Are you familiar enough with this receiver to direct me as to how to proceed? I thought I had gone through every function I could imagine and couldn't find the delay. Thanks very much.

 

[MDS]

I think johnd was talking about speaker delay which is set by telling the receiver the distance to each speaker.

The audio delay issue requires a feature commonly known as 'lip sync' delay. You might want to try the Pioneer website to find a manual and see if that model has a lip sync delay feature.

 

[Kevin Worley]

Yes, that is what I thought. I started to call it the "lip-sync" delay but wasn't sure if that was the correct function term. Mine doesn't have it, of course, and I simply can't live with the delay. Back I go for a new receiver. High-end video begets high-end audio and so the story goes (and so goes my savings!). Thank you both.