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BlueRay DVD Speaker Size and Distance Settings?
#189679 12/27/07 08:05 AM
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Hi all,
My crazy brother-in-law just got us a Sharp BD-HP20U Blue Ray Player, (unlucky us :)) for Christmas. Now I think I'm going to get a Harmon Kardon AVR 347 to run it through. I was looking at the Sharp's manual and saw that it had a way to set speaker size and distance settings. Isn't this usually done at the receiver and if so are there any conflicts that may be created? I didn't notice if there was a way to bypass this in the Sharp. If nothing is selected, factory defaults are Large speakers (6.5"cone and 12ft distance L/R/C and 6ft SLR).
I'm just wondering why the DVD player would have this capability when most, if not all, HT receivers take care of this on their own??
Thanks Sips
Soon to be M22's LR, VP100C, QS8 surrounds, Harmon Kardon AVR 347, Sony KDS-50A3000 Projection TV.

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powerwindow #189680 12/27/07 09:35 AM
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Sips, when a receiver makes those settings it generally has to be done digitally. You'll notice that the manual only directs you to the speaker settings section at the end of the section covering the 5.1 analog outputs. If the receiver gets the audio signals coming into its 5.1 analog inputs it can't(except for a few receivers)do the digital processing for speaker size etc., so this has to be done in the player. Only the 5.1 analog outputs on the player are affected by these player settings; the digital outputs(HDMI, coaxial and optical digital)are digitally processed for these speaker settings in the receiver. So, no conflict between settings in the player and receiver is created.


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JohnK #189694 12/27/07 04:44 PM
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cool, I never knew that.


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JohnK #189697 12/27/07 05:22 PM
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John K,
Thanks, I know I'm probably going to just repeat you here, just so I'm clear. As long as I connect the Blue Ray to a receiver via digitally ie. coax, optical, hdmi, the receiver then processes the info and sends it to the speakers according to the settings on the receiver.
Thant makes sense to me. The digital outs of the dvd player I'm assuming is just some bit stream of info, but the analog outs have already been processed. So would you use the dvd speaker size and distance settings if you were sending the analog out to a preamp, without digital processing?
Sips

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powerwindow #189722 12/28/07 03:05 AM
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Right; if a digital connection is used, the speaker settings are made in the receiver alone.


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