Problems trying to revive 10 year old equipment

[drnick]

Unfortunately my equipment had to be packed away for about 7 years due to mother moving into our house and taking over my media room. We have reconfigured the house and i am at least gaining a music room. I still have some old equipment which includes a Denon 2910 DVD player and Sony STR5000 receiver. Here is my problem. I am trying to play some SACD's and DVD-audios...yes I have a few..but sound will not come out of center or rear speakers or subwoofer. I tried multichannel direct, coaxial, and even optical. Nothing works. I know that use to work! Everything appears to be hooked up correctly. Any ideas? I don't even know where to start.

 

[markw]

Do you have 6 analog audio feeds from the SACD player going to the receiver? SACD cannot be passed any other way.

 

[drnick]

Yes is one of the things I that baffles me..

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Digital coax or optical (same thing for purpose of this discussion) are not capable (and I mean SPD/IF protocol) transferring original SACD encoded audio signal which varies drastically from CD or even from 24bit/192 studio level recordings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD#Technology

In some cases HDMI cable is able to pass the signal, but it requires HDMI DSD capable SADC and AVR, which 10 years old equipment is aint for sure.

 

[drnick]

Got it to work guys. thanks!