Denon AVR-1906 set-up help!

[andyr300]

I went out and bought a Denon AVR-1906 today.

Cant seem to get the on screen menu up on my TV...i only have it connected via the component at the moment,does the OSD require composite/s-video also?

PS not yet connected the speakers up.

have connected my PC via the optical out, and set it to 'digital out only' in the Creative audio settings...is their any where within windows i need to set it to digital/SPDIF also?

 

[mattkhan]

Hi

OSD only comes through composite/s-video, not over component

Cheers
Matt

 

[Knyght_byte]

I went out and bought a Denon AVR-1906 today.

Cant seem to get the on screen menu up on my TV...i only have it connected via the component at the moment,does the OSD require composite/s-video also?

PS not yet connected the speakers up.

have connected my PC via the optical out, and set it to 'digital out only' in the Creative audio settings...is their any where within windows i need to set it to digital/SPDIF also?

you should be able to set everything via the Creative software far as i remember......altho you only get multichannel via optical from DVD's....and only Dolby Digital or DTS (assuming its a more recent card that supports DTS).....you need to check the 'passthrough' box to allow this as well.....usually its already checked when you hit digital out only anyhow....

any other sound via digital output will be in stereo only.....this includes DVD-Audio discs.....you can send their DD/DTS layers by digital, but not their high res layers, that has to go by the normal analogue multichannel outputs, same as games...

 

[andyr300]

hmm,i thought it was an optical out but now i think it must not be.

think i will need a 3.5mm to RCA cable to go to the coaxial input on the amp?

does this sound about right?

 

[Midge]

Hi

OSD only comes through composite/s-video, not over component

Cheers
Matt

As above, I had the same problem, but connected an old s-video to scart cable I had lying around, and could then see the OSD.

 

[andyr300]

thats sorts the OSD then...how about my audigy 2 ZS soundcard output quandry?

 

[mattkhan]

some pointers on which settings to choose

you may have to manually assign the optical in to a specific channel (DVD, AUX etc) on the receiver, it depends what you've connected and with what type of connection.

 

[andyr300]

its not optical!

but it is digital.

im gona go buy a cable tmw,and give it a go,also will try get the speakers connected up and test all the stuff out.

 

[mattkhan]

the setup is the same for digital or optical IIRC, i.e. you have to assign optical/digital 1/2 to a specific channel.

 

[andyr300]

ok,thank you!

does anyone know where i can buy a digital coaxial cable with 1xphono on one end and 3.5mm jack on the other?

 

[andyr300]

scrub the last comment,i used an old 3.5mm to 2xphone cable and just used one of the outputs...seems to be ok...

have the rear speakers and sub working, sounds great!cant wait to get the fronts in!

 

[andyr300]

got it all set-up

ran the auto set-up but thought the rears were too quiet so i have manually upped their volume.

not sure about all the other settings,like crossover and LFE things?and also the sub ferequency cut-off?