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A friend of mine has just set up a Pioneer sacd player to his surround sound system, 5 speakers and sub woofer, the 5 speakers are fine, but there is no sound coming from the sub woofer.
Forgive the lack of knowledge, but is this due to what he is playing...do all sacds give sound out of 5 channels and sub? I read that the RCA sacds were recorded in 3 channel etc.
Basically we are at an empass for the moment.
I have offered sending down to him "Mahler 2 Kaplan" or other recordings which are 'full' sacd for him to try.
Can anyone shed any light on this...is it a fact that not all sacd layers sound, comes out of the sub woofer.
You can tell I don't know a great deal about this surround sound lark, as I listen to my sacds in stero mode only at the moment.
Many thanks for your help.
Tony
Edit: Well, he now tells me he has got it working, and is into it in a big way....thanks to those who read this post with discerning disbelief..cheers Tony
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Post by deckerm August 12, 2006 (2 of 14)
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You need to ensure your speakers are set as 'small' and not large. When set to small (or your receivers equivalence) it explicitly tells your receiver to send LFE signals to a subwoofer. When large, it assumes your speakers can handle those frequencies.
Other then that, make sure you have media at frequencies low enough for the setting on your subwoofer (80 hz is what mine is set to).
Hope this helps a little
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Post by mandel August 12, 2006 (3 of 14)
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Guessing you are the AnthonyAthletic from GMG? Heya!
Quite a lot of classical SACDs don't have an LFE channel (LFE = low frequency effect, what is normally sent to your subwoofer (the .1 channel)). If your friend only has small speakers he should be able to configure his SACD player or his AV reciever to redirect low frequency sound from the rest of the channels to the subwoofer. You can usually do this by setting some or all of the speakers to 'small' rather than 'large'. What kind of amplifier/reciever does your friend have?
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Post by mandel August 12, 2006 (4 of 14)
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deckerm said:
You need to ensure your speakers are set as 'small' and not large. When set to small (or your receivers equivalence) it explicitly tells your receiver to send LFE signals to a subwoofer. When large, it assumes your speakers can handle those frequencies.
Other then that, make sure you have media at frequencies low enough for the setting on your subwoofer (80 hz is what mine is set to).
Hope this helps a little
Your terminology isn't quite correct. LFE is the .1 channel that may or may not exist on the SACD. Setting your speakers to small or large makes no difference, if you've told your amp and/or player that you have a subwoofer the LFE signal will always go there.
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mandel said:
Guessing you are the AnthonyAthletic from GMG? Heya!
Quite a lot of classical SACDs don't have an LFE channel (LFE = low frequency effect, what is normally sent to your subwoofer (the .1 channel)). If your friend only has small speakers he should be able to configure his SACD player or his AV reciever to redirect low frequency sound from the rest of the channels to the subwoofer. You can usually do this by setting some or all of the speakers to 'small' rather than 'large'. What kind of amplifier/reciever does your friend have?
Hi, he is trying out what you say at this very moment, a two way conversation via MSN to ME to SA-CD.net (LOL), he had his speakers set to Large and has just changed them to small.
He has a Yamaha DSP-A592
He thanks you both for your help, all your advice has been passed over to him, and I am learning too for the future...he is still working on it at the moment, all being new to both of us.
Mandel...are you Mandel on GMG, guess my name gave it away buddy!! LOL
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Post by mandel August 12, 2006 (6 of 14)
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AnthonyAthletic said:
Mandel...are you Mandel on GMG, guess my name gave it away buddy!! LOL
Yeah I am. I don't post over there all that much as I'm fairly new to classical music (about 2 1/2 years of listening) and so can't make a decent contribution to some of the in-depth discussions that go on over there. However I'm reading and learning a lot :)
If any of his speakers are pretty good at handling bass by themselves he might be better leaving them set as large. No harm in trying both ways after all :)
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Post by deckerm August 12, 2006 (7 of 14)
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Glad he is up and running. This group is well incented to get people interested
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Ah, people from GMG. I'm there too, but I won't divulge my moniker.
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flyingdutchman said:
Ah, people from GMG. I'm there too, but I won't divulge my moniker.
You've gotta be Herman? Dutchman? LOL
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