New to the world of audiophila - Need help

[indiancurry]

Hi

I thought I can be a reasonably good audiophile, but my system proved it wrong. I am still at the starting block. My problem runs as follows, but first about my system:

AV Receiver - Yamaha RX 550
Front LR Speakers - Paradigm Monitor 9
Center Speaker - Paradigm
Surround LR Speakers - Infinity Renaissance 9
Subwoofer - AR S10
Stereo Amp - Sansui AU X11
CD Player - Denon

I have connected the TV cable receiver through the AV receiver which already has the 5.1 setup, however, unless I increase the receiver's volume to 40 DB, I can hardly hear anything through the speakers. I had previously run the TV cable through the Sansui phono input & the front LR speakers & boy, it is clear!

Is there anything I am doing wrong? The Front LR speakers are set to small because I want the lower frequencies going to the sub, the sub crossover is set to 60Hz because even if THX certifies 80Hz, 60Hz is the maximum lower frequencies can be heard best with a sub. The connecting wires have all been double checked twice, bought them from Brisbane last year & I have done bi-wiring.

What can be the problem with my receiver set up? Forgot to mention that although the Sansui tends to be a bit bright, I would never trade it for any other amp for stereo. It's a true audiophile classic.

Would appreciate any input. Thanks!

 

[Davemcc]

-40db isn't very loud with my receivers either. I don't think that's unusual. Something might be a little weird with your cable box though, since you say that you had it plugged into the phono input of the Sansui. Typically, phono inputs use a pre-amp that would cause terrible distortion if you used it for a line level connection. Perhaps your cable box is putting out a very low level signal compared to standard line level.

Do you have other connection options, like digital coax or optical? That would be the proper way to hook up your cable box for multi-channel audio.

 

[indiancurry]

I'll check out the cable output options. Not very confident of coaxial or digital on my cable box as I am in Kuwait & its still backward as far as technology goes.

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