I can't get any sound out of my Onkyo TX-SR 805

[Leon Liew]

Originally Posted by ClinicaTerra LTD

There is another feature on the Onkyos that is very helpful for this, too, now that you mentioned the volume...the OP said there was no sound at all, if I'm not mistaken, so I think it's something else, but...

Under SOURCE SETUP or something like that in the setup menus of Onkyos, there's a feature called INTELLI-VOLUME (which actually has been in use in older Onkyos, too; my TX-SR600 had it) which is supposed to be a volume-leveling device for each input, but I use it more as like a "power amp gain control" in that I jacked up my "DVD" input, which I use to play all films in my theater, to a value of "+10"...this makes the receiver's amps come to life a lot earlier in the gain stage and makes the overall sound punchier -- like turning up a power amp's gain; I used to run and recommend the IntelliVolume control on the max of +12dBs, but that's unnecessarily high, like it would be if you turned a power amp's gain all the way up, so +10 makes a nice comprimise so the internal amps aren't clipped or possibly overloaded...

I set the Intelli-Volume for my DVD players to +3db which I felt was sufficent.It enable me to really enjoy the dynamic audio from the sources connected.