For those that have not heard of Silent Cinema, think of it as Yamaha's version of Dolby Digital I just ordered a Yamaha receiver (RX-V667) that comes with Silent Cinema, I wanted to be able to use Silent Cinema headphone surround sound for Cable T.V., DVD & Blu-ray movies. I live in an apartment and I like watching movies late at night (and wake up really late in the morning). Hopefully my fellow headphone addicts (and Silent Cinema users ) and I can pull ideas for the best settings for movies and maybe gaming with Headphone/Silent Cinema. Does anyone know if there have been revisions and different versions of Silent Cinema?
I've only heard it one time on a cheap yamaha receiver. I don't remember any of the settings, or know if it was even setup correctly. I've heard you can tweak it, which could be good for messing with the HRTF's maybe. I prefer Dolby Headphone, but that is not very tweakable (there's 3 different settings), and not that common in receivers I think. When watching movies on my laptop I use PowerDVD which has dolby headphone, then send it to a DAC.
I use it to watch movies and with an xbox 360. I actually have run through the settings, but I always wind up back to the Direct mode. I also have a Harmon Kardon receiver with dolby HP and bypass, but I think the yamaha sounds much better.
It's my luck day, I ordered the Yamaha RX-V667 just for the surround sound headphone, today my Yamaha arrived, they shipped me the RX-V671, for the price of the RXV-667. Now i have to figure out all the headphone settings.
Hi, just trying to revive this thread and get opinion on silent Cinema. I live in a small studio apartment and I am trying to get the most out of my xbox, bluray, and PC by using a good pair of headphones. I'll leave the choice of headphones for another thread, but as far as what to drive them, I have been leaning towards a Yamaha receiver with Silent Cinema. The Xbox 360 outputs through optical, my blu ray through digital coax, and the PC also through optical. All 3 also do HDMI. I would also like the ability to simulate surround through the headphones as all of my devices output 5.1. I'm a big noob at this stuff, but I've been doing a lot of homework and researching all sorts of DAC's and mixamps. The only thing I could find that met my needs for all 3 devices, hooked up at the same time, and simulating 5.1 was a 5.1/7.1 receiver that had either Dolby Headphone or Silenct Cinema. Going off reviews and best prices from there, I narrowed it down to the Yamaka RX v371, which is pretty much the cheapest receiver I could find with 3 optical inputs and simulated headphone surround. I called Yamaha and they said it was good up to 450ohms, so that should be plenty of power for the headphones I am looking at. How is it working for you?
Quote: I do like my Yamaha RX-V671. Get the Yamaha RX-V371, best price is at Newegg. Use HDMI for all three, best prices for cables is Monoprice. Check the website Techbargins and Bountii for best prices on receivers.
I was looking at the manual for the RX-V371 and it looks like the Silent Cinema is only output over the headphone out. I can always just run that into my O2 or something if it doesn't have any power or something but I wonder if has any hiss. Do you get any of that with any of your more sensitive headphones?
Quote: Actually, a way around this is use the rca outs and plug in a 1/4 trs adaptor with nothing attached and it will induce the Silent Cinema mode, but the straight mode sounds better if you ask me.
Quote: Will that make the RCA outs play from the digital inputs? The manual say it can't do that. Will this get around that restriction?
