Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Jul 23, 2009 10:26 am Hi, my friend is having trouble with his new HTIB YAMAHA - YHT292B 5.1 Channel Home Theatre System In A Box TV: Sony Trinitron CRT DVD Player: Rank Arena ( cheap model ) He has wired it up using the coaxial cable and the Optical digital cable, and not the speaker cables. All speakers work, but no surround sound. A new DVD with dolby was tried. Should he use the speaker cables going from DVD player to Amp? Any help appreciated. DVD Pic attached http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2315/dvdback51.jpg Thanks two with sauce please Re: surround sound not working 2Jul 23, 2009 2:30 pm You connect the DVD Player to the amp/AV Receiver via a digital audio interconnect cable - optical or coaxial digital does not matter (unless one of the two devices only has one as an option). You connect the speakers to the amp/AV Receiver with speaker cable, and the subwoofer to the amp/AV Receiver (assuming it's an active/powered sub - ie. it has it's own built-in amp - it will have it's own power cord if it has it's own built-in amp) with a mono audio cable (single RCA plug on each end). If you have things connected this way it then comes down to the settings in both the DVD Player and the amp/AV Receiver to ensure you get (as long as the DVD Player can pass proper digital surround out through the digital audio interconnect and the amp/AV Receiver can decode it) proper digital surround sound working. Read the manuals again... P.S. Your TV has nothing to do with it. P.P.S. Make sure the movie/DVD you are testing with actually has a Dolby Digital or DTS (if your gear can do DTS) soundtrack and there is surround info in the scenes you are trying to watch... Re: surround sound not working 3Jul 23, 2009 2:48 pm I presume your friend wishes to watch and listen to their DVD's via the amplifier... If so, tell them to remove all cables from the back of the DVD player except for the optical audio cable.(which runs from the DVD optical out in to the DVD Optical in on the Amp).. then add a new (video) cable running from the DVD out (on the DVD player) and plug the other end into the DVD IN (on the amplifier).... Then they need a video lead (HDMI or RCA or S/VHS or what ever the connection on the CRT is) from the video out (on the amp) to the Video In (on the T.V)....You don't need any audio to the TV because the sound will be coming from the Amp... All speakers as Rodd said should be plugged in to the Amplifier..... See how you go.... Gav & Vanessa Building In Melbourne (Sth East Suburbs) http://www.arkraider.blogspot.com/ Rawdon Hill Construction - Canterbury Heritage I had a similar issue with my fridge not too long ago. It wasn't the same model, but the symptoms were pretty much the same: the compressor would start and then stop… 3 7536 Looking for some advice on pool surround planting. We have roughly 500mm wide garden bed around the edge of our pool. Depth of the bed is only around 250-300mm to top… 0 3868 Okay sorry silly me, my wife has solves the mystery for me. It’s because the labels on the ports are all wrongly positioned by the builder hence it confuses me. 2 1380 |