Hello everyone,
Apologies for the long post but I'm at my wit's end trying to setup my headphones to work properly with my Denon X3600 9.2 channel receiver, using a separate headphone amp. The configuration I'm trying to go for:
It was recommended that I just remove the switcher, audio extractor and DAC and just use the receiver's Zone 2 functionality to get equivalent functionality. However, I can't for the life of me get this to work right. All images are up at this page but I also direct link to relevant ones. Here's where I'm at:
The only time I've heard the headphone audio is if I turned off Zone 1 (which turned off the video signal to the TV). At that point, it was faintly coming through the headphones (much more faint than my previous dedicated DAC/amp setup). And it wasn't possible to adjust the volume of the AVR with just Zone 2 being on.
Apologies for the long post but I'm at my wit's end trying to setup my headphones to work properly with my Denon X3600 9.2 channel receiver, using a separate headphone amp. The configuration I'm trying to go for:
- Scenario 1: Keep using my receiver for my 9.1 setup with speakers during normal daytime use for movies and games. (This works already).
- Scenario 2: Switch to Headphones at night time, treating the receiver as a headphone DAC, outputting to my JDS Atom Headphone amp.
- Ideally, control the volume through the receiver since I could use the remote from my sofa and the headphone amp doesn't support remote functionality.
- Have the speakers not output any audio at night time since I'd only be using headphones.
It was recommended that I just remove the switcher, audio extractor and DAC and just use the receiver's Zone 2 functionality to get equivalent functionality. However, I can't for the life of me get this to work right. All images are up at this page but I also direct link to relevant ones. Here's where I'm at:
- Here are the ports of the receiver - I have my Xbox (which is my test case) going into HDMI Bluray input. All my speakers (9.1) are using the normal outputs for each respective channel, and the Zone 2 RCA outputs are going into the headphone amp's RCA ins.
- I left the AVR amp settings set to 9.1 since I'm using all those channels. Zone2 shows up in a little image at the bottom with the Pre label. There's also the terminal configuration shown on a separate screen.
- I could set this to 7.1 and then Zone 2 shows up differently, but I would lose out on 2 of my channels for the speakers. I assumed this isn't needed anyways since I'm not using the AVR to drive the amp but maybe I have that wrong if I intended to use the volume control to begin with?
- Zone 2's settings - I'm not sure what HDMI audio I should be picking - Through or PCM. I'm also unclear on the volume limit.
- Here are the audio settings I currently have on the Xbox audio menu, but I've tried messing with these values too.
The only time I've heard the headphone audio is if I turned off Zone 1 (which turned off the video signal to the TV). At that point, it was faintly coming through the headphones (much more faint than my previous dedicated DAC/amp setup). And it wasn't possible to adjust the volume of the AVR with just Zone 2 being on.
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