Can someone help turn me on? Please?

rockynbruno

So, I now have all my STUFF except for rear speakers. I'm sure it will be concidered MICKEY MOUSE to all you audiophilias out there. That word just gives me the creeps!

Anyhow, I purchased a Yamaha rx-v367 receiver, a cs1 series II center, and a psw10 sub to go along with my tsi200's. I also bought 100ft of 12 ga wire that came with 4 plugs. I got frustrated trying to figure out what I wanted. I almost purchased the "packaged" surround sound system but I've found with other things that come as a package there is always some part of it that is a compromise. So I figured since I don't know what I'm doing I might as well go "all out", or is the term now "all in"? Of course, I didn't really. I could have spent a lot more money on better equipment but that would have been pointless. It would be like a kid buying a sports car for their first auto. They can't really appreciated what they have till they drive a few clunkers.

I purchased everything from Newegg. I received a $60 gift promotion in which I will use to purchase whatever extras I need to get this all going.

The question is how do I get going? The only thing hooked into my mothers t.v. is an hdmi cable that goes from the tv to the cable box and a cable from the tv to the dvd player. Do I need to do anything to the sub before I use it? My son talked about having to have the volume turned way up on the one in his car for so many hours to break it in? I really don't want to ask him any questions about this stuff cause I would like to pretend I know what I'm doing so he can't make fun of me.:rolleyes: It's ok if you guys do cause I don't know you.:biggrin:

nguyendot

Honestly you can just open the manual for the receiver and use the guide in there.

Think of it as a flow chart - you have a beginning and an end. The beginning is what ever puts out the picture/sound signal. The end is always the TV and the speaker(s).

Willow

This worked for many guys back in the day

ratster

Willow wrote: »

This worked for many guys back in the day

That still works for me :biggrin:

rockynbruno

Willow wrote: »

This worked for many guys back in the day

LOL!!! I'm not into chicks. DUDE!LOL!!

messiah

There's no need to turn the volume way up on anything, it will break in with use. I wouldn't drive anything too hard for the first couple weeks.

Everything gets routed thru the AVR. That means cable, dvd, etc. That way the AVR can do the decoding and send the proper sounds to each of your speakers.

It's really pretty simple once you look at it for a minute.

cnh

I'm not familiar with that Yamaha? Do you know if the HDMI ins have pass/through...and or allow for HD sound processing?

If they do...you would connect most of your HDMI sources directly to the INS on the Yamaha and RUN one HDMI cable from the OUT on the back of the Yamaha to the HDMI in on the TV. That would require you, though, to turn on the AVR every time you use the TV. If you don't want to do that. Hook up the cable box directly to the TV and, assuming you have a Second HDMI in on the TV, hook up everything else to the Yamaha as described above. You would then run a Coax or optical cable from the TV to the Yamaha for when you want to use the Yamaha for TV sound.

You will then have to look at your manual or the Yamaha menus in order to ASSIGN the HDMI ins to various sources: DVD, VIDEO, CD, etc.

Your PSW 10 is best connected using a Y splitter to the L/R inputs and a sub cable to the Yamaha Sub OUT of LFE (whatever label is back there).

You would then turn the crossover cut off/ knob on the sub to its MAXIMUM. and the Volume to about 12 0'clock. Hook up all your speakers MAKING SURE THAT NO WIRES ARE TOUCHING ON THE BACK OF THE YAMAHA. BECAUSE YAMAHAS LOVE TO SHUT DOWN IF 'ANY' WIRES ARE TOUCHING EACH OTHER BACK THERE!!

Go into the Yamaha menus for Speaker set up and tell the Yamaha you have L/C/R small speakers and a SUB. Set the LFE or sub crossover to 80hz in the appropriate Yamaha AVR menu.

Then find the microphone and hook it up to the Yamaha as directed and run the YPAO surround set-up that will balance all your speakers.

Once done. You can fool around a bit more with your sub volume as auto-calibration systems often are not perfectly accurate and tastes vary.

You will have to peruse the manual in order to follow a lot of what I refer to above. Sorry about that. There's no other way.

Good Luck!

cnh

rockynbruno

THANKS!! I understand better now. The manual is a pain casuse it's on a dvd. I'm gonna have to print it out.