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I'm a little late to this medium--sort of. I started to collect some DVD-A's some years ago, but found the navigation on my strictly 2 channel set up a little wearisome ( I had no TV in the listening room). I did love the sound of many of the discs.
I recently came into a little 7" LED TV screen that has an AV input, and can now negotiate the menus more gracefully.
My problem is that though almost all of my DVD-A's say they are both multi-channel and two channel, I can't seem to find a way onto the two-channel material.
For example:
Bela Fleck--The Bluegrass sessions, Vol 2
Ton Koopman--Organ Spectacular
Aaron Neville--Devotion
Zubin Mehta--Mahler Symphony No. 2
Graham Parker--From the Front Row, Live
They all say there is two-channel output,but I've scrolled around, and cannot see where it is. And when I play them, something is missing.
I am curious if it is known that these discs were mis-labeled, or if I just need to do "one more thing."
Further, on some of the discs on which it is easy to access the two-channel material, the bass seems to be diminished, as if there was another output for the bass, and it was being reduced from my main (and only) speakers.
My DVD-A player is a Denon 2900. On some of these discs,it says that if played on a two channel player, it will default to the stereo program. Will it default to that program if I have a 5.1 player, but only use the Stereo outputs.
Thanks for helping this semi-newbie. I want to buy more discs (used, I know), but not if I can't be assured that I can access the two-channel material easily.
David
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I have Ton Koopman--Organ Spectacular & Aaron Neville--Devotion & AFAIK they do not have a dedicated stereo mix. The discs should have embedded information on how to down mix the multi-channel into stereo during playback. This will be output via the stereo outs. My Yamaha player has a down mix indication. If there is no explicit down-mix indication or setting, disable the center channel, surround channels & sub-woofer & the player should forcibly down mix it. These discs labels are mis-leading and not mis-labelled :-)
Only a few of my DVD-As like AIX, Silverline Classics, DG & EMI discs have separate stereo & surround channels. Teldec discs have only down mixable surround channels although they print as though they have both stereo & surround :-(
Is your player configured as "stereo only"? I mean, in players menu you should state which audio outputs you are using, in your case it should be left,right only. After that your problems should disappear
I've found that on my display, I'll get PPCM or PPCM & DownMix and it's usually Group 1 and/or Group 2. Many DVD~A discs have a 5.1 mix only, that then 'folds down' or 'down mixes' to 2 channel.
Initially, I did hook my player up to the TV to set the Audio Menu Output to either Bitstream or LPCM, I can't recall. Then I hooked up my L/R analogue cables and the rest was pretty easy. There will always be some confusion about what Group is playing what on a DVD~A disc, but that's just the nature of the beast.
I don't know if the 2900 works exactly the same way, but I would think that most of your STEREO mixes, be they straight/pure two channel, or downmix/fold downs, will be Group 1 and/or Group 2.
Chris
make sure you have the Denon set to DVD-Audio as the preference (not video). A telltale sign is if the surround menus have DTS and Dolby Digital...then you are looking at DVD-Video. The stereo tracks are usually on the DVD-Audio side (Audio_TS folder). If you've done the correct setting, try the other one just in case those example have simple 24/48 LPCM stereo tracks on their DVD-Video side.And, no, the disc doesn't know how you have the cables set up, so leaving the 5.1 mch outputs unplugged doesn't flag anything.
Edits: 09/27/10
I dont know if this helps but I own dvda players & dvd players. I use to find the different minus. there is a different minu for the regular video players.it depends on how the disc is made.
mch dvd-a mch sacd & blu-ray concerts rule.
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