?'s on input channel indicator- yamaha HTR 5590

[darrinvw02]

well if i didnt spend the $$$ on them already i might have done that. Thanks for all of your help and the info

 

[brian32672]

Here but you need the one with the female end.
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?cookie_test=1&catalog_name=CTLG&product_id=42-2449

EDIT:: Actually its cheaper now, well at least the male is..
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog_name=COOL&category_name=COOL_008_000_000_000&product_id=42-2450

EDIT::: Here is the exact one you are looking for..
http://www.iec-usa.com/l7423-01.html

EDIT:: Unbelievable what Bose gets for that system (1,000.00)
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-q2O5BNWwQpp/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?i=018AM10S3W&id=morephotos&a=&s=0&cc=01&g=12700#morephotos

Also look at the useless review (sorry to the reviewer)
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-XZddsMfucIP/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?I=018AM10S3W&id=review#Tab

 

[darrinvw02]

well i hooked up one of my rears directly to the receiver with some spare speaker wire that i had laying around and the rear light still didnt light up. Do i have to have them all hooked up or what.

By the way what does PCM stand for. that seems to be the only signal i can get sound out of. If i switch it to DTS- nada

 

[brian32672]

well i hooked up one of my rears directly to the receiver with some spare speaker wire that i had laying around and the rear light still didnt light up. Do i have to have them all hooked up or what.

By the way what does PCM stand for. that seems to be the only signal i can get sound out of. If i switch it to DTS- nada

Yes, I would hook them all up, then play any 5.1 Dolby Digital DVD. Make sure you have surround on auto, make sure speakers are set to small, make sure the sub is connected to the rca LFE out.

Here is a quick thing to read on LPCM
http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/dv-entertainment/articles/lpcm.jsp
And
http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/dvdvideo/dvdvid_audenc.htm

And here is a decent quick read on the other formats
http://www.the--untouchables.com/audio-video/index_eng.htm

well i hooked up one of my rears directly to the receiver with some spare speaker wire that i had laying around

BTW, how did you do this??? Make sure that when doing this that the rca center pin is the positive side, the outer shell is the negative side. They can not touch when you hook speaker wire to them.. (meaning negative and positive can not touch)

 

[Nomo]

I'm walking in a bit late on this but..... The lights you speak of light up to show the channels that are being recieved by the reciever. It has little to do with which speakers are hooked up. If the input signal is only stereo, the only lights that will go on are L and R. What source have you been using?

 

[brian32672]

Actually yes, this is something I should have went into. And NomoSony is correct. If you are using a Dolby Digital DVD then all speakers should light up.
Granted as I said its a DD 5.1 dvd, and we know you are using a optical cable, so we know its a digital signal. What model dvd player are you using?

With mine, when using a 2.0 DVD it will go into ProLogic 2x mode, and the only lights that will light up are the L&R&S (Left/Right/Sub) However the ProL2x will put sound out to the surrounds and the center.

But in your case only the L/R lights would come on, for a 2.0 dvd.
Thats why I had assumed you have at least 1 movie on dvd thats DD 5.1

Granted, I still say the only way to use the receivers processing is to directly connect the speakers to the receiver. And setting them to large/small will make no difference if you have them hooked through the Bose sub.

 

[georgep]

darrinvw02,

You have the small Bose Acoustimass speakers and bass module - I will not comment on the sound quality of the speakers but the small bose speakers are not designed to be directly connected to your receiver. You connect the speaker outputs from your receiver to the bass module and then all 5 speakers to the bass module - doing otherwise can cause damage to the bose cubes and will result in a more "tinny" sound. Your receiver will recognize all channels and can equalize them to a degree and the crossover function works as well (if your receiver has this capability). I repeat, for the best possible sound for your system do not connect the bose cubes directly to your receiver.

George

 

[malvado78]

If you connect the cubes to the bass module the receiver cossover does not work "to a degree." It does not work at all. What happens is the receiver cuts the frequencies below the specified cut off frequency and this means those frequencies are not even sent to the bass module to be reproduced (unless the bass module is connected to the receiver via the LFE out which I do not believe it is and that is why you are supposed to set the speakers on the receiver to Large accounding to Bose so that all frequencies get sent to the bass module and the crossover in the bass module is used).

 

[georgep]

The bass module (series III) that darrinvw02 has does have an LFE jack, and the Bose manual recommends a crossover of 80hz. I do not own this speaker system but have helped set it up in the past - adjusting the crossover at the receiver has a noticeable effect on the output from the bass module.

George

 

[darrinvw02]

thanks for all your help guys. It was greatly appreciated. Ill probably end up just keeping it the way that it was in the first place. I think its probably supposed to be like that- because i have tried pretty much everything to fix the "problem".
thank you all

 

[Nomo]

What exactly did we help with?