No Sound from HDMI, Optical Cable or Coax on Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV

[haszav]

I dumped a ton of cash for a great Pioneer 50" Plasma and a great receiver. I bought all the right cables, and the company sent out a complete idiot to set up the system. He took over 11 hours, and still didn't get it right.

Although I am getting video from my HDMI cables from the DVD player and the Direct TV HD box, I am not getting any audio.

I have also tried coax and optical. Nada. I've messed with the inputs, and done everything I can think of. What am I doing wrong?! Any advice would be appreciated!

 

[AVRat]

I suggest you thoroughly read through the manual. Check and recheck the connections AND the internal configurations. It sounds like the audio inputs were not configured (pg. 61). These systems are no longer simply plug and play. 11 hours!! Was it working when the guy left?

 

[mtrycrafts]

I dumped a ton of cash for a great Pioneer 50" Plasma and a great receiver. I bought all the right cables, and the company sent out a complete idiot to set up the system. He took over 11 hours, and still didn't get it right.

Although I am getting video from my HDMI cables from the DVD player and the Direct TV HD box, I am not getting any audio.

I have also tried coax and optical. Nada. I've messed with the inputs, and done everything I can think of. What am I doing wrong?! Any advice would be appreciated!

You will not get audio through the HDMI, as far as I know.

So, you need to program the receiver to work with digital audio, one way or another. The cable box may need some programming too, not sure.

 

[jbrillo]

You should be able to get both audio & video via HDMI. Be sure you go into the menu & make sure you have the proper inputs assigned to your DVD player & DirecTV box. It should work. Good luck.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

I suggest you thoroughly read through the manual. Check and recheck the connections AND the internal configurations. It sounds like the audio inputs were not configured (pg. 61). These systems are no longer simply plug and play. 11 hours!! Was it working when the guy left?

Ditto......



PS...C'mon, 11 hrs??
LOL

Did he build your plasma from scratch?

 

[timn99]

What DVD player are you hooking up to the Pioneer? Oppo? If Oppo, you also need to connect the digital audio out.

Another trick is to press "Signal Select" on the front of receiver or remote, and cycle to Auto or Digital.

I had the same problems when first hooking up, and the above did the trick. Also make sure to go into the Pioneer Menu to configure the "Input Setup" menu (page 61 of manual).

 

[cusky5oh]

this was touched on earlier, but your reciever's digital inputs need to be configured, for example, on my denon avr-3806 i have to assign my optical digital input from the cable box to the same input that the video comes through, your best bet is to make sure your cable box is set to output a digital signal through the cable box menu, and go to your receiver and switch to the input your video comes through, run through the digital audio input assignment in the setup menu, and cycle through, ex. your cable is set to video 1. set the cable box to digital out through the menu, and cycle through the inputs, digital audio input 1, no sound, digital audio input 2, still no sound, do so untill you finally get that sweet sweet digital audio through that equally sweet receiver.repeat with dvd player

 

[Natascha Thompson]

I have a pioneer pop 5000ex with no sound. I've had someone connected simple external speakers before (He stuck a wire on both ends of the tv. They have black and red knobs), but after moving and trying to reconnect myself, I can't get sound. Does it matter which goes in red and black?