mcspongy
Prominent Member
There is a HDMI passthrough mode on my new Marantz SR7010 receiver, which I was thinking I'd use when watching something on a TV in another room, that TV being connected as either the Zone 2 HDMI output or the 2nd HDMI output for the main zone.
I thought people probably normally used such a "passthrough on standby mode" to watch stuff with the amp switched to standby, so just using the TV speakers, so assumed I wouldn't have to change settings on the BD player/ media player to get the sound from the TV speakers, but I wasn't getting any sound on the TV?? I know there is a setting on the Amp (like previous receivers I've owned) to "output the HDMI audio via the TV", which then outputs stereo only from the receiver's HDMI output, but I don't understand how the passthrough on standby mode is supposed to work, as this latter mode only functions when the receiver is switched on.
Will I always need to decode the HD audio in the Input sources in order to use the passthrough mode for any HD audio? Thanks
I thought people probably normally used such a "passthrough on standby mode" to watch stuff with the amp switched to standby, so just using the TV speakers, so assumed I wouldn't have to change settings on the BD player/ media player to get the sound from the TV speakers, but I wasn't getting any sound on the TV?? I know there is a setting on the Amp (like previous receivers I've owned) to "output the HDMI audio via the TV", which then outputs stereo only from the receiver's HDMI output, but I don't understand how the passthrough on standby mode is supposed to work, as this latter mode only functions when the receiver is switched on.
Will I always need to decode the HD audio in the Input sources in order to use the passthrough mode for any HD audio? Thanks