Hey all. In a system I'm working on (Marantz AV7702MKII pre/pro), the sub in Zone One is shut off when you engage All Zone Stereo. Is this normal? Seems pointless to me. I can't find any kind of a setting that allows this to be changed. I'm concidering just changing the setting for Zone One to no sub and running the left and right preouts into the sub (which has an active cross over). So not a big deal in this case but in the case of lower models that don't have preouts I can see this being an issue in the future. If it matters I have it set to LFE plus L&R. I had no output to the sub with just LFE (was testing with a Cd).

Also, this pre/pro will take digital audio from the HDMI for Zone 2, but not Zone 3. It only takes digital audio from the optica/coax digital for Zone 3. We're using a Marantz UD5007 and it only has HDMI and analogue out. Because our intent is to use all three zones I'm running analogue from the BD player to get signal for the extra zones. On other receivers in the past I've been able to run the analogue out to the same input I run the digital input to, in this case the BD input. However, I get no analogue pass through to the extra zones. I had to run the analogue to another input (CD). Again not a big deal but it would be if I had planned to run a lot of devices and needed those inputs. Am I doing something wrong here? I expected more from this preamp.

Thanks

Craig

Edit. I just realized I should check to see if the analogue inputs need to be assigned. I'll report back.

My guess is that the speakers are not set to small, so the sub is only seeing information from the dedicated LFE channel on discrete surround soundtracks.

Double check that all channels are set to small, and see if there are distinct settings for the various soundfield modes. Maybe the pre-pro wants to default the stereo (and multi-channel stereo) to 2.0 full range and your LFE+LR only applies to the surround modes unless you dig into the menu somehow.

I'll check that out. Thanks. However, these speakers are by no means small. They are a big beautiful sounding set of towers, are currently set as large, and originally with no sub-woofer. Are you saying set them small still? Maybe I'm mixing things up here. I figured where the sound went was dictated by the cross over settings. I rarely use towers in systems and have pretty much always set the speakers to small.

Craig

Set the speakers to small and sort out the crossover point that sounds the best and all your problems with the sub should go away.
There's an outside chance that your player won't send audio out of the digital and analogue outs at the same time. What sound settings are you running on the player?

What they've said.
With both Denon and Marantz, always set the speakers to "small" regardless of the physical size of the speakers.

Thanks guys.

I am getting signal from both the analogue and digital outputs on the player at the same time. I just have to use two separate inputs on the receiver, but I have a suspicion this will be rectified when check the input assignments.

Thanks for the tip about always setting the speakers to small. I'll try this, and adjust the crossover to suit.

Craig

There is a setting on both D & M menus for subwoofer. Select "LFE & Main" and your sub will work in all stereo nudes. Default is LFE only. Then you can keep your speakers set to large

I seem to recall this happening before?
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FP Crazy, I have it set to LFE and Main now and am having the issue. However they are set to large so I'll see what happens when I set them to small.

KRAZYK, holy cow you have a good memory. I forgot about that. That was different. That was no sub just on Airplay. I changed the output of the multi room system so it wasn't using the AirPlay protocol. I played directly to a CD input.

This is no sub output just on a specific sound mode (we'll sort off, All Zone Stereo isnt really a surround mode). I'll do some more experimentation and then report back so that when I forget again I can search and find my own solution to my own problem!!!!

Happy New Year to you too!

Craig

There was at least one generation of Yamaha receiver where the subwoofer output only had LFE signal, no matter what. You had to connect the sub using speaker wires, whether the sub had a high level crossover or not. Is it possible that this is the situation here?

I guess anything is possible but doubt it. I think it's most likely that I buggered the set up. I was in a rush the last day I was there and I'm going back Thursday to finish up. Worst case scenario is that I can't get it to work and I use the left and right RCA pre-outs to feed the sub.

Front speakers set to small fixed the no sub issue on All Zone Stereo.

Assigning the analogue input fixed the no output in Zone 2 issue.