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greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

Their trouble shooting guide is pretty much worthless...

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO

Yup, not very helpful. Yes, I've calibrated the speaker levels with the built-in test tone.

I'll try fixing it at DTS and see what that does. Not sure what that'll do if I get a DD-only disk, but maybe at least it'll give us another clue.

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO

My God, I am an idiot.

This problem first turned up after putting an SD DVD in the A2. No dialog. So I put the DVD into the Momitsu, dialog, kids were happy, I went off to work in the other room.

So "obviously" it was working right with the Momitsu, right? Welllll, maybe. Since it had "obviously" been working right with one source, I didn't bother to re-test the center speaker. <--- STUPID!

Finally in desperation I ran the receiver's test tone. Howaboutdat, the center channel is dead!!! **D'OH!!**

I'm not quite sure what happened. I don't know if the center speaker's wire got pulled loose recently, or what. (Kids were in the HT unsupervised at the time, so anything is possible.) I'm not sure if the receiver (when listening to the Momitsu) was in some kind of mode where it was splitting the center channel to the fronts. I dunno. But the center wire WAS pulled loose. Fix that, and shazam! The dialog came back. *Damn* it's amazing how much better speakers work when you actually connect them to the receiver......... Embarassed

So at least I've learned a bit more about the Byzantine arrangement of surround modes &etc in my receiver. Maybe now I can actually set it up right. *sigh*

Sorry for the wasted time, gents...

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

Hah! That is rich. I have definitely posted on forums for help before and it ended up being my own fault.

The difference between me and you is that you admitted it!

er...wait I just admitted it to...darn.

Glad it is working!

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:46 am Post subject:

You know Gary, I had added a line in one of my earlier post's about you checking connections. I deleted it before posting because I didn't want to insult you Very Happy

. Never over look the obvious no matter how trivial.

Well I have to admit, I've torn my system apart trying to figure out why there was no sound only to realize I didn't have a cable connected. Of course that was over 10 years ago...... lol Wink

Glad you got it going.

GEBrown · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 729 Location: Denver

I too am guilty of looking at layer 3 problems (routing) before checking layer 1 (wiring,physical connections).

LOL

But the GOOD news is that you learned something from all of this - I hate it when a problem just goes away and you never know why it occurred in the first place.

Gary