Question on sub woofer hookup

glp5

I have my PSW 505 hooked up to my sub woofer preout on the back of my Denon AVR 2700 receiver. It works fine forcable tv and blue ray movies with Dolby D, but I get no signal for movies in dts. My receiver is an older model that only has a dolby digital decoder and not one for dts. It does have the capability connect a six channel extension inputthough and I use that when watching movies that are only in dts. I ran a sub woofer cable from the blue ray player
to the appropriate input on my receiver. I get all channels, front l-r, center, surround l-r, but do not get any signal tomy subwoofer. Is it because I have it hooked up to the pre out port on the back of the receiver? Could I hook up thesubwoofer directly to the sw port on my blue ray player and not run it through the receiver without damaging the subwoofer itself? I am looking for any other suggestions.

Glowrdr

You would not want to connect directly to your BDP, as you would lose any control over volume. Granted, you could adjust it from the speaker itself - but it's still not a good idea.

I'm guessing that it is something related to the receiver not being able to properly decode DTS (i.e. its not decoding the LFE track). Does your receiver have the option of setting the sub to LFE+? Most newer receivers allow you to use the sub for bass and LFE (hence, the LFE+ name - not sure of your model though. I'd give that a shot if you have the option

Syndil

He already said his receiver does not do DTS. He is running the 5.1 analog output from his Blu-Ray player to the 5.1 analog input on his receiver, so the Blu-Ray player is doing the decoding.

Sounds to me like you do have everything hooked up properly. The first place I would look to troubleshoot this problem would be the settings on your Blu-Ray player. Since it is able to decode and send the signal via analog outputs, there is probably some sort of speaker management option in the Blu-Ray player. I suspect that the Blu-Ray player is set to mix your subwoofer channel in with your front channels. What model of Blu-Ray player do you have?

tonyb

Lets re cap here....you have 6 cables going from the blu ray player to the receiver, then an additional cable from the subwoofer output on the receiver to the subwoofer. Is that correct ? If so, then as Syndil suggested, it may well be in your bdp set up menu thats the problem. Go back in the the setup menu on the bdp and if there is some kind of audio mode your missing. Some have an auto detection mode that will detect the signal and switch over.

Glowrdr

Syndil wrote: »

He already said his receiver does not do DTS. He is running the 5.1 analog output from his Blu-Ray player to the 5.1 analog input on his receiver, so the Blu-Ray player is doing the decoding.

I knew that his receiver didn't decode DTS, as I mentioned that in my response. I just didn't think of having him check what the settings are on his BRP. I've had analog players before, but my old H/K was still able to decode DTS (just not the newer HD)

glp5

Syndil wrote: »

He already said his receiver does not do DTS. He is running the 5.1 analog output from his Blu-Ray player to the 5.1 analog input on his receiver, so the Blu-Ray player is doing the decoding.

Sounds to me like you do have everything hooked up properly. The first place I would look to troubleshoot this problem would be the settings on your Blu-Ray player. Since it is able to decode and send the signal via analog outputs, there is probably some sort of speaker management option in the Blu-Ray player. I suspect that the Blu-Ray player is set to mix your subwoofer channel in with your front channels. What model of Blu-Ray player do you have?

Thanks for the advice. Checked my BRP and set up the subwoofer. All is good now.

glp5

Checked my BRP manual and set up the subwoofer. All is well now. Thanks for the advice.

Syndil

Glad I could help.