Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion HiFi & HT Chat Setting up a 568.2mm for multichannel lossless audio (Was Edge powerbuy)

Hello Fellow HitchHikers,

I received my modified DVDO Edge Scaler today. But before I can get to telling you about it I am having a problem with my audio coming out of the MHR port.

I am only getting front l/r channels and sub through the mhr port. I need some assistance please.

I will hold my comments until I can sit down and watch and listen to one of my favorite movies. But my wife, Velma has already given me a "wow" nice picture and she likes the fact you can get rid of the bars. I have not done any tweaking as of yet with the dvdo because of my mhr problem.

Please advise

Samuel

Sam, glad to see you posting, this is a setup issue with either the Samsung or the Meridian, will be real easy to get inline once we figure out what it is

what blu-ray are you playing back to test Sam? try one with TrueHD

thanks

Gary,

I am using the Samsung 1400 which will process true hd but not DTS ma.

Samuel

Have you set the DVI Detective dip switches so that it reports an EDID with 8ch PCM?

the dip switches are in same position as when Gary shipped the unit. 1/3 on and 2/4 off.

Sam

Sam,

Check the players setup, they can be funny about how their various settings will effect their HDMI output. Be sure digital output is set to PCM, set the speaker setup to 6 channels (large).

Shawn

Shawn,

I checked and changed the speakers to large.

I have my 568 set on cinema and I am getting pcm 6-ch 48K on the display, but sound only from the center channel and the sub.

Sam

Sam, yes the Gefen is set, no need to mess with it

page 35 of the samsung manual, set digital output to PCM(not bitstream)
page 36 of the samsung manual, set pcm downsampling to 0ff
page 36 of the samsung manual, set dynamic compression to off
page 37 of the samsung manual, set all speakers to on/large and sub to LFE
page 41 of the samsung manual, set anynet to off

get and insert a blu-ray with a LPCM track, this is a Sony disc most likely

to name a few Fifth Element, Memento, Species, Black Hawk Down XXX etc.

make sure in the movie menu that you select LPCM as the audio track, start playing the film

on the Edge to Meridian, you should have the first RCA connected to l/r, the second to c/sub and the third to sr l/r

as for its settings you will have to get help

thanks

Sam,

http://www.Meridian-audio.com/download/Handbooks/500_Series/500%20series%20Smart%20Link.pdf

thanks

You may want to check out the wiki on setting things up.
I added Meridian506's suggestion

http://www.meridianunplugged.com/wiki/index.php?pagename=HDMISolutions

George, if you can add to the entry that the Gefen dip switches should be set to 1 and 3 on and 2 and 4 off

I ship all units ready to go, so no worry on that anyway

-Gary

George,

I have followed the instructions from the Meridian wiki-HDMI solutions on how to setup Meridian preamp for 6 channel SPDIF. I followed the top two set of instructions. I have not tried adding the sourc with MConfig.

when I set it to cinema, the display reads PCM Mov6 48K, but I am only getting sound from the front l/r and sub only. which doesnt may sense to me since the sub should be with the center channel.

I am using the Meridian 513 smartlink patch to connect the Edge DVDO and the connections are labeled.


Gary,

I set the samsung as you said and I am watching Blackhawk Down and the picture is very good and I have not made any adjustments yet. As a matter of fact I have never seen the samsung look this good.

this may be an operator error, but is it possible to have the hmr set to 2 channel plus sub. I think I remember the person I purchased the 568mm from, used it for 2 channel only through the mhr.

Pleasssssssssssssssssse Advise


Samuel