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Post by balduin on Jun 22, 2017 13:36:07 GMT
Dear Mr. Winer, I watched your "Living Room Home Theater Tour" a few times and I really enjoy your professional dedication. I was wondering which model your Pioneer receiver is and I found the information here. How did you connect your powered Mackie speakers to the receiver and is the receiver capable to send audio to powered and passive speakers simultaneously? I would like to setup a similar home theatre and I hold an old Panasonic SA-HE75 [ ftp.panasonic.com/audio/om/sa-he75_en_om.pdf ] receiver; which I am not sure I can use to realize my project. Of course, I would prefer to spend money on better powered-monitors, instead of buying a new and expensive receiver.  Furthermore, how would you apply DSP room correction in this environment? Thank you! |
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Post by Ethan Winer on Jun 22, 2017 19:16:01 GMT
Funny you should ask this now because I just went through a PITA situation with my receiver. It's all fixed now, though I can't be sure my experience will relate to your receiver.
I assume you can connect both powered and unpowered speakers at the same time. My receiver allows that. That was part of my problem. My receiver has relays in series with the main Left and Right speaker outputs, activated by the "A" and "B" speaker switches. But it also takes the line outputs off the speaker output, after going through a resistor pad. Without an actual speaker connected the relay didn't always make a good connection. So I put 33 ohm 5 watt resistors across the passive speaker outputs and that fixed the line level outputs! Sheesh! This was just last week. My receiver had been fine for all those years, then got flaky last year. If I cranked the volume way up the problem would clear, and I finally tracked it down to the relays.
As for DSP room correction, I'm not a fan of that. My receiver has that feature but I don't use it. I have bass traps, though I do use the one-band cut-only EQ but into my SVS subwoofer to reduce a peak at 44 Hz about 3 dB.
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Post by balduin on Aug 26, 2017 1:03:33 GMT
Sorry for the late reply and thank you for your last, quick one! In the meantime, I was looking for an alternative, since I am lacking your expertise in fixing electronics. I might get a good deal on a 'Denon DN-700AV' 7.1 AV-receiver, which I then would use for my 5.1 application. The only thing I did not find out yet is, whether it can be used with powered and unpowered speakers at the same time. At least, outputs for both kinds of speakers are built-in. denonpro.com/products/view3/dn-700avKind regards! |
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Post by Hexspa on Aug 27, 2017 6:27:13 GMT
Sorry for the late reply and thank you for your last, quick one! In the meantime, I was looking for an alternative, since I am lacking your expertise in fixing electronics. I might get a good deal on a 'Denon DN-700AV' 7.1 AV-receiver, which I then would use for my 5.1 application. The only thing I did not find out yet is, whether it can be used with powered and unpowered speakers at the same time. At least, outputs for both kinds of speakers are built-in. denonpro.com/products/view3/dn-700avKind regards! I like Denon. I have an AVR 1707 that whomped a Sony in it's price range. |
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Post by Ethan Winer on Aug 30, 2017 14:11:30 GMT
The only thing I did not find out yet is, whether it can be used with powered and unpowered speakers at the same time. At least, outputs for both kinds of speakers are built-in. Yes, I see both sets of outputs. I'm certain both can be used at the same time. Of course, you could email Denon and ask. But I can't envision a circuit (or reason) that would mute one output when the other is used. |
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Post by balduin on Sept 3, 2017 23:16:34 GMT
[...] Of course, you could email Denon and ask. But I can't envision a circuit (or reason) that would mute one output when the other is used. Yes - I sent an email to Denon (via their official contact form) already some time ago but received no reply. Some companies seem to be too busy to reply to "trivial" questions of a single individual [same experience with JBL Professional and Dynaudio - Mackie or APS 'Audio Pro Solutions' instead, always replied within a reasonable timeframe]. I will ask the vendor or try, before I buy. Thank you for your valuation! |
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Post by Ethan Winer on Sept 8, 2017 14:56:23 GMT
It amazes me when companies can't be bothered to reply to emails. Even for a complaint that's difficult for them to answer, they must at least acknowledge that they received it.
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