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Thread: HD DVD player overloading receiver?? |
    
Bronze Member Username: Rock_hard
Post Number: 24
Registered: Sep-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 11:34 am: |
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I bought the HD DVD add-on for my xbox 360 and its fantastic. looks amazing! but if i have it turned loud, my amp goes into protect. i dont' mean super loud, i have watched regular DVDs MUCH louder. but, if i have it at a comfortable movie watching volume level it just goes into protect. what could be causing that? it happened once before watching an HD show on my digital cable. my amp is a Harman/Kardon HK 325.
thanks for any help guys |
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Bronze Member Username: Rock_hard
Post Number: 25
Registered: Sep-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 11:42 am: |
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oops sorry its an HK AVR 330 not 325. not that it really matters! |
Silver Member Username: Gamerdude
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 270
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 05:08 pm: |
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Make sure that EVERYTHING is connected right, and allso check that no wires are touching suck as at the speaker terminals
Allso make sure the amp is vented properly |
Gold Member Username: Kano
BC
Canada
Post Number: 1121
Registered: Oct-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 06:02 pm: |
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Are you using 4Ohm speakers?
The Xbox 360 downmixes the new Dolby Digital + track down to a high bandwidth Dolby Digital track. Apparantly the compression used results in having to turn the receiver's volume much higher than normal.
Using the normal DD or DTS track may correct the problem for you, but check all your speaker wire terminations, it could be a single copper thread shorting out when the signal to that speaker is strong enough. |
Gold Member Username: Kano
BC
Canada
Post Number: 1122
Registered: Oct-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 06:05 pm: |
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The same problem isn't there for True HD and DTS HD tracks, btw, |
Bronze Member Username: Rock_hard
Post Number: 26
Registered: Sep-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 08:30 pm: |
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yeah i do have to turn it up quite a bit more with an HD DVD than i do with a regular DVD. -18 with a regular DVD sounds like -8 with an HD DVD. I've watched concert DVDs much louder than the HD DVDs for a long period of time and have had no problems, so it can't be a short somewhere.
to get True HD and DTS HD i need a new receiver don't i? and a new HD DVD player because the xbox 360 doesn't have the analog outputs to give u enough bandwidth seeing as the optical cable doesn't have enough bandwidth to carry those signals. am i right? is there no fix for this? |
Gold Member Username: Kano
BC
Canada
Post Number: 1123
Registered: Oct-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 06:41 am: |
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Actually the 360 will convert any soundtrack you select into a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. True HD and DTS HD actually come across louder, and sound the best. FOr some reason Dolby Digital + has to be turned up.
I picked one of these up today and found the same thing. -18 is now -8, but have had no problems. I noticed there's a lot of low end going to the towers though. Perhaps setting the crossover for your fronts a little higher will fix your problem. I have an Hk AVR430, and found the receiver struggled to get bass out of my Polk Rti8s. I now use a 200Wx2 power amp for the fronts and was really shocked at how much more bass comes through compared to using the HK. |
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