The optical output carries the still-digital SVS-processed signal which would otherwise be fed to the internal A16 DAC and A16 internal 2.0 amp, to then go out through the analog headphone-out jacks on the back and front. It is unrelated to anything multi-channel. It is simply to feed that...

Back several Yamaha AVRs ago, when there were lots of analog RCA cable connections to my assorted devices all going through the AVR, I had a very bad ground loop hum coming from my Stax SR-Omega/SRM-T1S fed from the RCA jacks on the back of my A8. Couldn't seem to find the cause, or eliminate...

Thanks to both @Andrew Seeley and @Litigi74 for the great backstory and additional details. Seems like the disappearance of the XLR analog-input amplifiers makes a repeat event seem unlikely, or at least much more cumbersome and with questionable results. There are reasonably priced (around $20...

And were you the requisite "engineering support"?? And were there miles of wires?

I'm want to be sure I'm not misinterpreting what you've said here. Are you saying that back in Feb 2021 you somehow arranged for the 39-channel Dolby Atmos theater at the Geneva Megaplex in Vineyard UT to be available off-hours for your personal use, in order to do an in-person 15.1.8 PRIR...

Since you are an owner of this piece of music (and I'm assuming also a LOVER of it, as am I), I share with you what I feel to be THE BEST SOUNDING recording I've ever come across (and I own 9 different versions, although all are old 2.0 stereo CD versions, not a modern 5.1 version): Paul Paray...

Unfortunately, with 2.17 Smyth did not publish a required correction to the CSV processor (released in beta form with 2.12) relating to the 2.15 relocation of the Auro-3D control from "main settings" (where it had been previously located in 2.12) to now be in the "second PRESET menu page" (where...

Very interesting. Not to spend too much time OT, but while I was locating those Telarc CDs my Rachmaninoff shopping research took me to Presto Music, where someone had recommended the Naxos 9-disc collection of actual acoustical and electronic recordings of his made on Edison and Victor between...

Well, OT again. I managed to find BOTH of these Telarc CDs from 1998-1999, where Rachmaninoff was magically "put in charge" of that Bosendorfer 290SE Reproducing Piano, as "realized" by that magician Wayne Stahnke. I have to say... I am breathless! It is absolutely unbelievable. It is as if he...

Did you post the wrong URL here for the Canare adapter/transformer, to go along with that RCA-to-BNC adapter? This link is for the "BCJ-XP-TRC XLR-3 Male to BNC Female 75 Ohm to 110 Ohm Digital Audio Impedance Transformer". Your earlier post mentioned the "BCJ-XP-TRB Spdif to AES transformer"...

Truly astonishing, the physical mechanics of getting his fingers to do that. But somehow duplicating that finger motion (with all of its motion-describing parameters) with equivalent physical mechanisms required FOR EACH AND EVERY KEY ON THE KEYBOARD to drive the piano's physical parts...

And on a related subject... The A16 of pianos: Steinway "Spirio | r" player piano - the world’s finest high resolution player piano capable of live performance capture and playback. The technology also includes "edit" capability. And instead of a roll of punched paper as the driver, it's...

I explored the CSV approach back in July. This was also my motivation for upgrading from the 2.11 I'd been at until then, straight to 2.15 (bypassing 2.12 which was when CSV processing was first released). At that time I wrote THREE rather detailed and consecutive forum items about my experience...

IT'S ALIVE!!!!! Turns out (not surprisingly I now suppose, if you actually knew anything about Auro), the rendering parameters of PRE and STG actually do make a genuinely dramatic difference in what speakers are activated, the intensity of that activation, etc.. And in fact (again, not...

Actually, your picture with Auromatic active on your 9.1 speaker layout was interesting for two reasons: (a) it showed all 9.1 speakers actively receiving sound, and (b) the "PCM 2.0 (Auromatic)" annotation you circled was colored yellow The annotation is described in the 2.15 release notes...

In passing, I mention that I've now re-tested after correcting the improper values for Auro PRE and Auro STG to be their supposedly delivered defaults, setting the former to "medium" and the latter to "13". Note again that the incorrect values are the result of the defective CSV processor with...

I don't follow what you're trying to suggest as far as my Auro room 10 in my preset 12 being incorrect. It is 9.1.4h, which is layout #24 from page 6 of the notes. That preset 12 shows as 9.1.6 (which is the Atmos room) by default when there is no HDMI input to figure out. But once the CD starts...

My audio CD PCM 2.0 stereo experiments involved two presets, 11 and 12: (a) Preset 11 - straight PCM (7.1) listening room invoked to play 2.0 PCM audio through L/R speakers. No Auro, no Auromatic upmix. Straight PCM.. And when the audio CD is played through Preset 11, it looks and...

I agree, a picture's worth 1000 words. I have screenshots from 2.05 (before Auro was supported), and then from 2.11 (which was initially released without the Auro license file yet available but theoretically able to support Auro when that happened), and then from 2.15 which is where I am right...

Yes, I did. That's how I was able to obtain Auromatic by using the PCM Audio Management tweak, to set upmixer to "Auromatic" for HDMI input even though I had NOT enabled the "Auro-3D" switch on the second page of the preset settings. I DID get the Auro display on the screen, with the 7.1.4...

Question about activating Auromatic when playing CD (from Oppo 203 feeding A16)... I'm running firmware 2.15. I'm playing a 2.0 stereo CD on my Oppo, feeding "bitstream" audio to the A16. It is arriving as 2.0 PCM, as it should. I'm trying to get Auromatic upmixing from one preset in which...

Many decades ago I had one of these DIR-800C systems (base station plus wireless headphones) as well, when Dolby Headphone was a virtual-surround "solution". Quite the novelty. I ended up giving it to a friend, when I upgraded to the subsequent DIR-1000 and then DIR-2000 successors. The later...

Now I do have one final problem that I can't seem to resolve through any corrections to the XLSX. I'm forced to manually fix things after-the-fact in the A16. Only takes a second so it's not a big deal but surely there's an explanation for what is going on, and surely there must be something I...

The corrections to now specify Auro 9.1, Auro 11.1 and Auro 13.1 values for the "room layout" (aka "listening mode", aka "format", aka "loudspeaker configuration") worked. Or at least I believe that is the explanation for why the finished A16 "listening mode" looks correct and all the relevant...

So I've now completed the "CSV-based RESTORE" of my A16 setup, following the factory reset required with the installation of firmware 2.15. Note that I had previously been somewhat behind, still running 2.11 which did not yet have the original delivered beta CSV processor. So I actually had to...