titan7 11-18-2009, 01:26 PM Just hooked up my BD-60 to my 2 channel Rotel Pre-Amp (ya I am a pure 2 channel Hi-fi nut). I am using the analog audio outs to my aux in the preamp. I noticed that I had to turn the volume knob from 8oclock to 10oclock to get the same sound level as my older Panasonic upconverting DVD player.
I guess I can just do this but was wondering if there is a setting to fix this? I would have thought the BR player would have been the same level since they are both panasonic? Will Digital Compression "on" help?
titan7 11-22-2009, 11:31 PM Wow, 98 hits and nothing, I must be the only person running 2 ch hi-fi with their blue ray ; )
Do you have the player set to downmix to 2 Channel output? If you do not then you are missing the audio that is encoded to go to the center channel (about 70% of most soundtracks) and also missing the sound going to the rear surrounds also, but it is likely the center channel data that is the cause of your issue.
Hope this helps!
Loves2Watch 11-23-2009, 07:45 AM Do you have the player set to downmix to 2 Channel output? If you do not then you are mixing the audio that is encoded to go to the center channel (about 70% of most soundtracks) and also missing the sound going to the rear surrounds also, but it is likely the center channel data that is the cause of your issue.
Hope this helps!
Hit the nail on the head...
titan7 11-24-2009, 12:15 AM Do you have the player set to downmix to 2 Channel output? If you do not then you are missing the audio that is encoded to go to the center channel (about 70% of most soundtracks) and also missing the sound going to the rear surrounds also, but it is likely the center channel data that is the cause of your issue.
Hope this helps!
That does, help but I can't find this option on the Panasonic BD-60?? Is this an option with only some players?
BIslander 11-24-2009, 08:30 AM Do you have the player set to downmix to 2 Channel output? If you do not then you are missing the audio that is encoded to go to the center channel (about 70% of most soundtracks) and also missing the sound going to the rear surrounds also, but it is likely the center channel data that is the cause of your issue.Are you sure about this? I believe the analog stereo outputs always downmix on their own. To the best of my knowledge there isn't even a setting to control those outputs. The downmix options are for Stereo or Surround Encoding. Surround Encoding uses Dolby Surround when downmixing so that processors with ProLogic decoders can extract two extra channels. But, the signal is still a properly downmixed stereo output.
It is in the main setup section of the menu. It should be in the audio setup of that section. Check pages 32-34 in the manual for how and where to do it.
BIslander 11-24-2009, 09:36 AM It is in the main setup section of the menu. It should be in the audio setup of that section. Check pages 32-34 in the manual for how and where to do it.I don't see anything on those pages that controls whether the analog stereo outputs downmix multichannel sources. p33 has the Downmix setting with the Stereo and Surround Encoded options I described above. p34 has an Analog Audio Output setting, which only applies to the BD80 (with it's 7.1 outputs), not the BD60.
Once again, I am quite certain that the analog stereo outputs always downmix multichannel content. What would be the point of only sending L/R through an output that can never support any of the other speaker channels? It's the same story with the S/PDIF outputs. Multichannel PCM always gets downmixed to stereo for output over optical or coax.
So, there doesn't appear to be a player solution for titan7's volume issue.
Certainly they should automatically downmix the stereo output but my Sharp doesn't unless I change it despite what the Sharp manual states which is similar terminology. By changing it for the downmixing of 5.1 sources it cannot hurt and I think it might be his solution, but since I do not own the BD60 I can only guess. It will not hurt to try regardless.
BIslander 11-24-2009, 04:19 PM titan7 - If you use the optical output from the player and let your Rotel do the digital-analog conversion, is the volume still low?
titan7 11-25-2009, 09:08 PM titan7 - If you use the optical output from the player and let your Rotel do the digital-analog conversion, is the volume still low?
My Rotel RC-1070 pre-amp does not have an optical input. It's pure 2 channel Hi-fi, I am audio snob of sorts, 2 channel or nothing :lol:
I think the settings referred to above are for the BD-80 only.
BIslander 11-26-2009, 01:17 AM My Rotel RC-1070 pre-amp does not have an optical input. It's pure 2 channel Hi-fi, I am audio snob of sorts, 2 channel or nothing :lol:Optical can be used for two channel PCM. But, if your Rotel is analog only, then that's out.
I think the settings referred to above are for the BD-80 only.Agreed. I suspect your only choice is to increase the volume when using the BD60.
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