Receiver Question

[Cwoodall334]

I've had my PS3 and Sony KDL-40v2500 for a year now and now I'm looking to get the audio to go with it. I've been looking at receivers and reading message boards, but I'm not sure which to pick. I want to be able to experience HD audio, but I have no idea what all the terminology means (like HDMI passthrough???). If somebody could PLEASE help me with some of this, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm really not looking to spend more than $700 or so on the receiver (I've already picked out some kick a$$ speakers )

[crackinhedz]

I would love to explain it all to you...but my wife will kill me if I dont come eat dinner right now.

so let me leave you with this...


Any of these receivers will provide you with Lossless HD audio from your PS3. (and in your price range )

HDMI Receivers

[Cwoodall334]

Thanks you very much.

[The Guardian]

If you bump your price range $100 you can get an awesome deal on Pioneer Elite http://cgi.videogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.p...1ch&1194743945 which blows away anything else in that price range.

Otherwise you're probably looking at Onkyo as your best bet.

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by The Guardian

If you bump your price range $100 you can get an awesome deal on Pioneer Elite http://cgi.videogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.p...1ch&1194743945 which blows away anything else in that price range..

...thats what I would do too.

[BluMonkey]

Still doesnt explain pass through ... Ive just bought a Onkyo SR875 which has it and ive no idea what it is lol

The onkyo is like mission control and in the UK they dont even have Customer Support ... Mine was a nitemare to set up, the auto set up with the mic wasnt working properly as 5.1 so in the end I bought 2 more speakers and config'd it as 7.1 ...

Sound is fantastic ... although my player is a sammy 1200 and if you pause or when you play there is a few second delay with the hdmi audio being detected by the Onkyo...

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by BluMonkey

Still doesnt explain pass through ...

HDMI Passthrough (terminology) can be confusing. It is used in a couple different ways.

In a negative aspect, when talking about Receivers:

"...don't buy such and such receiver,it is HDMI passthrough only"

By this meaning that the receiver will only pass video and cannot process HDMI audio. For audio you would need an optical cable. (which defeats the purpose of a receiver having HDMI input in the first place. )



But sometimes Manufacturers will use passthrough loosely when describing its video capabilities...ex. 1080p video passthrough (even when the receiver can process HDMI audio), and it can confuse consumers.

[fattyslimslim]

Passthrough usually means that the receiver passes the video/audio through the receiver onto the tv. The receiver does nothing with the video/audio except pass it straight through the receiver. It does no processing of the video or audio. My Sony STR DG800 a/v receiver had hdmi passthrough so I could hook up more than one hdmi device to the tv with only 1 hdmi input on my tv. I still needed to run an optical cable from the PS3 and separate DVD player to the receiver to get any audio at all.

The opposite of passthrough (I am not sure of the antonym of passthrough) is that a receiver will process the audio and pass the video through. This allows you to take advantage of the PCM, DTS-MA, and True HD tracks on BD.

Most cheaper HDMI receivers will only have passthrough. If you have any desire to listen to better audio tracks, you will skip the passthrough receivers.

Hope that helps...if I was not true, anyone please feel free to correct me.