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Connect headphone amp straight to Blu-ray player?

post #1 of 6
9/27/10 at 1:45pm
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I'm a big movie fan and love using headphones when watching them. I have a JVC XV-BP1 Blu-ray player connected to a Yamaha RX-V663 receiver which has a surround sound mode for headphones called Silent Cinema. Thing is, I am not too fond of Silent Cinema and prefer to listen to the 5.1 channels mixed to stereo directly without processing (this still sounds like surround to my ears and this way I hear the channels more directly). Which brings me to my question: If I don't want 'fake surround', and would like to introduce a headphone amp to the mix, could I hook the amp (thinking of a Little Dot amp) directly to the Blu-ray player's stereo RCA connectors? Will the Blu-ray player automatically downmix all 5.1 or 7.1 channels to stereo, and most importantly, will it still be high definition sound? The Blu-ray player can decode DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD by the way.

 

If I had a headphone amp, I would just try this out myself obviously, but I don't have one. My headphones are a Sennheiser HD580 and a JVC HA-RX900, forgot to mention that.

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post #2 of 6
9/27/10 at 2:02pm
Do you have tape loop out or record out jacks on your receiver? That would be the best place to connect a headphone amp. I think the receiver should give you two channel out from those. You might want to try connecting the headphone amp to the Blu-Ray player. I don't know if it'll automatically give you two channel out, but you won't hurt anything by trying.
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post #3 of 6
9/27/10 at 2:04pm

I believe you can connect your player as you describe and get a downmix. I used to have a SACD/DVD-A player and it worked like that via stereo RCA output. There really is no other way it can output anything other than 2 channel anyway but you should look in the setup menu to check the audio settings.

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post #4 of 6
9/27/10 at 3:33pm

Well, you should be able to just disable Silent Cinema on your receiver I would think.

 

If your player can decode the lossless formats, then yeah, it should be doing what you want. Likely it will have an option for what to do (so you'll set the player to stereo output), although it might do that automatically on the stereo analog out.

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post #5 of 6
9/27/10 at 3:37pm
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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik View Post

Do you have tape loop out or record out jacks on your receiver? That would be the best place to connect a headphone amp. I think the receiver should give you two channel out from those. You might want to try connecting the headphone amp to the Blu-Ray player. I don't know if iit'll automatically give you two channel out, but you won't hurt anything by trying.




My receiver has pre-outs, is that what you mean? It has those outputs for all individual channels, so the surround and center channels would be lost this way (I don't think it can downmix the pre-outs from 5. 1 to just left and right).
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post #6 of 6
9/27/10 at 3:41pm
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Originally Posted by darkswordsman17 View Post


Well, you should be able to just disable Silent Cinema on your receiver I would think.



 



If your player can decode the lossless formats, then yeah, it should be doing what you want. Likely it will have an option for what to do (so you'll set the player to stereo output), although it might do that automatically on the stereo analog out.





Yeah I can turn Silent Cinema off but the thing is, I am not sure the receiver is a good match for my headphones, so I would like to try a headphone amp.
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