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gotpitino
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_ 		5. July 2007 @ 09:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
My Onkyo 805 just came in Tuesday and I need some help with the audio hook up from the HD A2. I've got it connected via HDMI and when you play a HD DVD, Dolby TrueHD and DD+ sound amazing sent to the player via PCMstream. When I play a SDDVD I feel like the Bitstream of Dolby Digital, DTS, DDEX, and so on sound better than the HDMI. When you play a SDDVD thru HDMI it still says on the receiver that it's a pcmstream. You can only assign one audio input to a particular component and I've got the HDMI input assigned to the HD DVD player. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of how I could hook this up so when I played SDDVD it would play thru the optical input or if I could get the player to bitstream audio from a SDDVD thru HDMI.
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eatsushi
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_ 		5. July 2007 @ 10:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't have the A2 but I remember reading from the avsforums A2 thread that you should set the HDMI audio output to AUTO and the Optical output to PCM to get the best results from an HDMI connection (even if you don't have the Optical port connected.) I know it may not make sense but that's what some members are saying. I'll look for the link later and post it.
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gotpitino
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_ 		5. July 2007 @ 10:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't get it. Why would you set the optical output to PCM?
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eatsushi
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_ 		5. July 2007 @ 10:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I know it doesn't make sense but that's what works for the A2 owners who use HDMI for audio.

Here's the link:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthrea...3&page=87&pp=30

Pay attention to the posts by ebr.

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If my connection is HDMI to my preamp, what should HDMI Audio be set to in order to get the best Audio possible?

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Auto. But here's the tricky part - you need to also set your optical output to PCM. I know, doesn't make any sense but if you don't do that you won't get the highest quality PCM audio from the HDMI connection.
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gotpitino
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_ 		5. July 2007 @ 10:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OK man, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
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