quick question

[bruin62]

I moved my home theater room all around this weekend an noticed when I hooked the speakers up my rears an fronts sounded garbaled but center was fine. I checked all conections an they are right. maybe it's because the reciever was on the wrong funtion an could not decode what was being played on sat.? I then tried a dvd and everything sounded great.
thanks. John

 

[adk highlander]

When you say garbled were you hearing part of what was coming through the center? I know with many of the Directv channels in non-hd do not have very good audio so when using Pro Logic or NEO it will play mainly through the center with just what sound like bleed by (technical term) coming through the other 4 speakers. I would still check connections but if it sounds good when giving a true multi-channel imput like a DVD then I would think it is just the sat's audio.

I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. This forum is seems like a great information source with great people.

 

[Buckle-meister]

I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. This forum is seems like a great information source with great people.

As one Highlander to another, welcome to the forum adk highlander.

 

[bruin62]

welcome

First off welcome to the forum. I was getting good sound through the center channel but not from the others. but a dvd sounds good in all speakers.
john

 

[adk highlander]

Thanks

Thanks for the welcomes. Buckle-meister I must admit that I inherited the highlander title due to my wife. She is from Hamilton. We try to get over at least once a year but with the exchange rates the way they've been it has been hard.

bruin62 - What surround mode is your reciever set on when you are only (or mostly) getting sound from the center? If it is on a ProLogic setting and a poor audio source sat channel than this is normal. Try different surround modes and see what happens. If you have a 5-channel or 7-channel setting it should play through all speakers. Did this happen before you moved the system?

When you play a DVD it is encoded with a multichannel format Like Dolby Digital EX or DTS so it will play through all the channels and your reciever is probably on that setting already.

 

[agarwalro]

I have noticed that on the HD channels when the incoming signal is not true 5.1, but the station has used some kind of matrixed processing, the center channel seems to get most of the signal. This is what you must be seeing.

 

[Buckle-meister]

...I inherited the highlander title due to my wife. She is from Hamilton...

Hamilton? That's even further south than Glasgow, i.e. in the Lowlands.

 

[adk highlander]

South? It is 20 minutes from Glasgow. Anyway like I said my friends who's only knowledge of Scotland is Braveheart think everyone is a highlander.

 

[Buckle-meister]

South? It is 20 minutes from Glasgow.

Okay, south-east to be exact.

Not sure what you mean about "20 minutes from Glasgow". Time is irrelevant: both Hamilton and Glasgow are well within what is commonly known as the Central Belt, but what in reality is the Lowlands. Nobody from this region considers themselves to be Highlanders.

...my friends who's only knowledge of Scotland is Braveheart think everyone is a highlander.

Aargh!