SkyTV - Forcing to 2 channel

[rantnrave]

Samsung F6510 TV

Sky HD

Cyrus 8 DAC

Proac 1SC (+ sub)

Sky box (and BluRay) are connected to TV via HDMI

TV is connected to Cyrus via Digital connection (the TV only has digital audio out)

My problem is that some Sky channels are broadcast in 5.1. I only have a 2.1 setup and I'm getting the muddled sound that comes with that. I can't see any way to force the Sky box to send stereo only to the TV or any way of forcing the TV to only send the stereo signal.

Connecting the Sky box direct to the Cyrus via analogue cures the problem but I want to be able to ingetrate all the TV sound via a single input on the amp.

Any help please?

 

[Chumpy]

As a for 15 years cable enjoyer, I wish you all of the best. I have been perfectly happy with great 1 or 2 channel, although I occasionally dabble in 79.973 recurring extra reduntant 'channels'.

I am sure that if you check all of your settings in all devices/contact Murdoch specialists you will get sorted.

 

[vacdac]

Using either your Sky Box or TV's OSD & going into sound settings you should have the ability to select either DD multi-channel or plain vanilla 2ch audio* (usually labelled LPCM) this latter selection is what you need to select to output a proper stereo feed into your DAC. :^

 

[Tel]

Quite apt really, considering that this is the two channel section of the forum!

 

[rantnrave]

Thanks. It must just be my ears then, not used to the digital revolution!

The TV is set to PCM and the Dolby Digital option is greyed out. So I'm guessing i'm getting a stereo feed

The difference between the analogue (Sky box -> amp) and the digital ( Sky via hdmi -> TV -> Amp) is massive. On the digital, the background sound is much more pronounced and the speech a lot softer, everything is clearer though. On the analogue, the speech is much more central to the whole sound. I need the volume much higher on the digital connection to get the same level - is this normal?

 

[karlinamillion]

Thanks. It must just be my ears then, not used to the digital revolution!The TV is set to PCM and the Dolby Digital option is greyed out. So I'm guessing i'm getting a stereo feed

The difference between the analogue (Sky box -> amp) and the digital ( Sky via hdmi -> TV -> Amp) is massive. On the digital, the background sound is much more pronounced and the speech a lot softer, everything is clearer though. On the analogue, the speech is much more central to the whole sound. I need the volume much higher on the digital connection to get the same level - is this normal?

This sounds like the digital (2 channel) out is just the L&R, and not the centre channel. Normal 5.1 has all the dialogue routed to the centre channel, in a stereo version this should be on L&R with a central image.

Don't know what the settings you need for this is though.

 

[mr marcus]

might be wrong but I thought sky hd couldn't do 5:1 through a hdmi caable?

....has to have a digital coax or tosh cable connected

or has sky now fixed this?

 

[roob]

My Skybox is connect to the surround amp via tosink.

Edit: just found this

http://www.whathifi.com/news/sky-enables-dolby-digital-51-over-hdmi-on-sky-hd-boxes

 

[jon]

This sounds like the digital (2 channel) out is just the L&R, and not the centre channel. Normal 5.1 has all the dialogue routed to the centre channel, in a stereo version this should be on L&R with a central image.Don't know what the settings you need for this is though.

It does sound like that might be happening. Can you try plugging the optical out of the Sky box into the DAC - how does that sound?