I don't usually deal with the Yamaha stuff and am running into some difficulties.

RX-A3030

For some reason I get no audio output from analog, coax or opti when the unit is set to "Straight". Now thats a pretty easy fix by simply setting one of the sound modes.

I believe related to this is that I cannot get any sound output via the Multi-Channel Input from an SACD player. There is no sound mode option for this input. I've tried feeding FL/FR directly from headphone out of my laptop and get nothing, so I know its the AVR side not the player.

Hopefully somebody with more Yamaha experience can shed some light for me. Thanks!

Is you SACD player has dedicate 5.1 output?

Be aware that not all SACD materials do 5.1, but will do 2 channels in stereo.

Yes.

I don't get anything with stereo RCA fed into that input via my laptop either, which leads me to believe its the AVR not the player.

Some general Yamaha facts:

Straight does no processing. I'd expect if you're using digital audio inputs, Straight would give you whatever "straight" surround mode -- Dolby Digital, for instance -- without also giving stereo mixdowns.

The entire purpose of the multi-channel input is to have the player do all processing. However many channels you input, that's what comes out, and no more. It makes sense from that, that you don't get other inputs.

I don't follow your FL/FR connection idea. Could you explain that a bit?

You're feeding, what, the stereo analog output of your computer into the FL and FR inputs of the Yamaha Multi-Channel Input and you get nothing, that is, silence on all channels, right? I'd expect you to get output from the FL and FR amps of the Yamaha, but nothing more, so "nothing" means exactly what?

Run a network update. Had similar issues on a rx-a2040. Update fixed the issues

I grasp the purpose of the straight function, as well as the multi-ch input, to bypass processing. It seems tho that the unit will not output audio from anything other than an HDMI feed when the processing is turned off, i.e. straight/multi-ch input/pure direct. I was wondering if maybe somebody knew something I didn't about some hidden setting or such that I was just missing. Sounds like that's not the case and there is an issue with the AVR.

Yes, feeding stereo RCA from laptop into FL/FR of multi-ch input, no output from amp on FL/FR.



Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

Network update, nothing. Initialized the unit, sound while in direct. Uploaded old settings, lost sound again. Obviously at this point its settings related.

Speaker config set to 9ch + Front. Doh!

I've found that I need to set the Aventage for 7 or 9 channel (what ever max is for the unit). This is not quite intuitive when you don't have the maximum number of speakers configured.