Using This Receiver with a BDP-550 Player: So would I hear them over my speakers if I used this unit as I have just described?
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Ben: The answer is no, you would not hear the HMDI pass-thru audio on your speakers. The HDMI audio would follow the HDMI output to the TV. Your separate audio connections would be required to hear the audio on your speakers. The HDMI switching in this pass-thru case is meant to save your from having to run separate audio connections to you your TV.
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Please consider getting a receiver with a Sub-out. The sound quality will be improved beyond your wildest dreams.
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Should be fine with your receiver. There are usually several places on receivers to plug in accessory machines that use phono plug inputs. If you're replacing your cd player with this machine, it could plug into the same place where the old machine was plugged into, for instance. I love this machine. Great old school technology and you can randomly shuffle and have continuous music for a long time.
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You will need a receiver to power the speakers. They are perfect for surround application .
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You can use the optical connection but it will limit the audio to 1.5 Mbps. This means you will hear Dolby Digital and DTS in 5.1 and PCM audio only in stereo. With an HDMI receiver, you would be able to bitstream the higher resolution audio formats like Dolby TrueHD and PCM 5.1, etc. There is another way for you to hear the high resolution audio because your receiver has analog 5.1 audio inputs. You will need to buy the Pioneer BD55 as the BD35 doesn't have analog audio outputs. So for another $100 you can hear the high resolution audio on your existing receiver. The BD35 is intended for people who already have an HDMI receiver, and the BD55 is for those who don't.
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Actually, in the setup menu of the BD55K you can scroll down to the audio configuration to set both DD and DTS to ouput PCM-only and downconvert to stereo. You won't have to repeat this process every time, and when at such time you upgrade your receiver you can always change these settings to output bitstream. But in the meantime Yamaha's proprietary DSP Soundfields should keep you quite "surrounded." It was quite effective as I remember :)
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You can use this player with your 5.1 receiver. You need to go into the player's audio setup menu and set the surround back channel to "None." The player will then only output to the 5.1 analogs (just leave the surround back analog connectors unused). This is what am doing.
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I believe if you run a spliter and take your Satalite/cable and your other device to the BR player in connection they will both play over the surround sound syst. I only run my satilite to it but it seems to work well.
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Thanks, Rushead. Excellent explanation. I'm concluding that if I go with the BD55, I can use its 7.1 audio outputs with the 7.1 audio inputs on my Pioneer 1015. Might be the best way to go, since I'm sensing the Dolby TrueHD and DTS might be significantly better than regular DD and DTS in 5.1.
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There is an analog out and an optical out... either running RCAs or optical cable. The unit doesn't have enough power to run speakers on it's own... that is why a separate receiver is needed. If you have a set of powered computer speakers with a volume that is also another option as long as it has RCAs or optical in!!
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If you have a good Quality surround receiver(Yamaha, Marantz, Onkyo ETC.), go ahead and use them with the receiver. It is designed to have a nice set of fronts. JIm
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As a center channel for a 7.1 system, with music playing through it, it sounds good. So for an old receiver it should sound fine.
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The user manual states that the bass management settings only effect the analog audio outputs. When connected via HDMI, you'll need to use the bass management settings in your receiver. See page 69 of the user manual for more details:http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-93/blu-ray-BDP-93-Support.aspx
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I'm no professional, but if your receiver has USB or AC/Adapter ability, I would say yes.
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speakers should be attached to a AV receiver not to each other......so I would first look into getting a AV receiver.
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Interesting scenario. The only I can think of is to split the connection since you probably only have one center channel speaker output on your receiver. The other thing you can do is use your rear center channel connection if your receiver has it.
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I cannot think of any reason why it would not work just fine. I am not proficient in sound numbers but my receiver is 100 watts per channel and have 4 of the 6 speakers pairs hooked up and it works just fine. No problems at all.