Help! My Onkyo got fried!

[Ruahine]

OK - this is an interesting thread...

I love my music and my CD's but like all impoverished family guys my ability to indulge myself is limited.

I have a nice Pioneer 6 CD player working into an old Toshiba Amp running mid price Warfdale speakers. Pretty happy with it although the amps a little under powered.

Enter the new Sony blue ray player and samsung LCD. Hopeless trying to get a 2Ch output from them (apparently its possible but neither the manual or samsung nz have a clue as to how)

How do I hook the br player to the amp?

Which sony Bluray player is it? There should be a pair of audio out sockets often just labeled L and R on the back. One is normally Red and the other white. I think even the most basic Sony model (370/380) has these. Get an RCA cable and hook them up to your amp.

[Paul in NZ]

Which sony Bluray player is it? There should be a pair of audio out sockets often just labeled L and R on the back. One is normally Red and the other white. I think even the most basic Sony model (370/380) has these. Get an RCA cable and hook them up to your amp.

Yeah - you would think so wouldn't you but audio comes out distorted like you only get part of a 5.1 output or something.

I've obviously got a setting wrong - i'll try again in the weekend (thats again again)

[Headbanger]

Yeah - you would think so wouldn't you but audio comes out distorted like you only get part of a 5.1 output or something.

I've obviously got a setting wrong - i'll try again in the weekend (thats again again)

Then its fucked, Those two audio ports can't and don't carry the 5.1 signal

Personally I run an HDMI (which carries both audio and video) into the TV, then an optical audio cable back to the amp.

I use a 5.1 amp but only run it in stereo mode, To my ears 2 awesome speakers sound better then those shitty satilite speakers dotted around the room.

[steve_t]

OK - this is an interesting thread...

I love my music and my CD's but like all impoverished family guys my ability to indulge myself is limited.

I have a nice Pioneer 6 CD player working into an old Toshiba Amp running mid price Warfdale speakers. Pretty happy with it although the amps a little under powered.

Enter the new Sony blue ray player and samsung LCD. Hopeless trying to get a 2Ch output from them (apparently its possible but neither the manual or samsung nz have a clue as to how)

How do I hook the br player to the amp?

Which sony Bluray player is it? There should be a pair of audio out sockets often just labeled L and R on the back. One is normally Red and the other white. I think even the most basic Sony model (370/380) has these. Get an RCA cable and hook them up to your amp.

Hell no. HDMI all the way... Oh, the Toshiba Amp is old? Probably no HDMI then. If RCA cables don't work, you might be out of luck Optical in as per Headbanger's post?

[Akzle]

OK - this is an interesting thread...

I love my music and my CD's but like all impoverished family guys my ability to indulge myself is limited.

I have a nice Pioneer 6 CD player working into an old Toshiba Amp running mid price Warfdale speakers. Pretty happy with it although the amps a little under powered.

Enter the new Sony blue ray player and samsung LCD. Hopeless trying to get a 2Ch output from them (apparently its possible but neither the manual or samsung nz have a clue as to how)

How do I hook the br player to the amp?

check out jaycar for downscaling boxes. HDMI or whatever in - rca out. probably 20-30$.

and whoever ran HDMI and optical back - doesn't HDMI carry all signals (A, V and control/info) both ways?

[Headbanger]

and whoever ran HDMI and optical back - doesn't HDMI carry all signals (A, V and control/info) both ways?

My amp doesn't have HDMI ports, So I have an xbox and 2 PC's hooked up to the televsion via HDMI, with the audio being passed through the televsion and onto the amp via optical.

[Scuba_Steve]

Yeah - you would think so wouldn't you but audio comes out distorted like you only get part of a 5.1 output or something.

I've obviously got a setting wrong - i'll try again in the weekend (thats again again)

Then its fucked, Those two audio ports can't and don't carry the 5.1 signal

I reckon it's not "fucked". Paul just try hitting the audio button on the bluray player remote while watching a movie. Chances are all it is, is your movies set to 5.1 all u gotta do is change it to 2-ch

[Paul in NZ]

I reckon it's not "fucked". Paul just try hitting the audio button on the bluray player remote while watching a movie. Chances are all it is, is your movies set to 5.1 all u gotta do is change it to 2-ch

Yeah thats what I thought but its being most truculent about it. Typically the manual is almost helpful in that it insists its possible and indicates in a vague direction where to do it but the player thus far is manfully resisting.

Bah!

[Usarka]

Yeah thats what I thought but its being most truculent about it. Typically the manual is almost helpful in that it insists its possible and indicates in a vague direction where to do it but the player thus far is manfully resisting.

Bah!

Last time we had a home theater type problem (PS3 -> amp) a firmware upgrade fixed the problem.

Might be worth a crack. You'll need to make sure you get the right model, but if it's a BDP-S380 then you can get it here

[Ruahine]

Yeah - you would think so wouldn't you but audio comes out distorted like you only get part of a 5.1 output or something.

I've obviously got a setting wrong - i'll try again in the weekend (thats again again)

Are you having problems playing CDs and DVDs/Blurays or is it just DVDs?

If CDs play fine, but DVDs are distorted then its probably a scaling problem and there should be a setting in the player to sort this out. This could be happening if your player has pre-outs for all 7 speaker channels and the player is set to output to all of them.

If both CDs and DVDs are distorted then its probably something else. Have you tried swapping RCA cables around? Sometimes its just a loose connection or a bad cable. Also try swapping inputs on your amp, if its really old then maybe some of the input sockets need a clean.

If its not working, then as others have mentioned you could try using the stereo audio-out from your TV into your Amp. TVs can have surprisingly good DACs in them, the disadvantage is that you have to have the TV on to listen to CDs through your player. Works fine for movies though.

[vifferman]

I use a 5.1 amp but only run it in stereo mode, To my ears 2 awesome speakers sound better then those shitty satilite speakers dotted around the room.

Non-shitty B&W satellite speakers sound OK!
Even the Jamo speakers in the dining room for Zone2 sound OK-ish for just background music.