If you can set speakers to small, you are doing bass management. Of course, without the sub, bass management settings are ignored.Hello all,
I just purchased a Panasonic DMP-BD85 bd player for the analog preouts to use on my legacy receiver's preamp inputs. At this time I am running a 5.0 setup until my sub gets here in about a week and every thing sounds good. In the player's setup menu I can select speaker size, presence, delay time and channel balance. As far as I know there is no bass mangement: xover setting etc. I selected small for all speakers, no sub and left the delay and channel setting at 0., all seems well.
See above.I can go into my receiver multi-channel input and set individual speaker levels which I did with SPL meter, so am I correct in thinking that the receiver is doing the majority of bass mangement or am I missing something here?
Possibly as that depends on the player.My next question is when my sub arrives and I select sub in the player's menu ( I've read that all speaker levels using analog preouts from player would be equal dB level) does not the LFE output need to be boosted 10dB in this case using analog outs?
Yes.Can I do this in the receiver?
Normally, yes but you can add it in the player or the AVR if you are using analog connections.Correct me if I'm wrong but this added boost is automatically done in the receiver or prepro when using digital inputs.
I hope that helps. More of my comments here: http://stereophile.com/musicintheround/music_in_the_round_44/Guys please help, I want to know what I'm doing when the sub arrives. I know I can always just use the coaxial output from player (I have my PS3 slim setup that way with optical and SQ is good) but I would really like to know if I can discern the difference between lossy and lossless audio. Thanks to all for your time. I look forward to your replies.
Thanks Kal,If you can set speakers to small, you are doing bass management. Of course, without the sub, bass management settings are ignored.
See above.
Possibly as that depends on the player.
Yes.
Normally, yes but you can add it in the player or the AVR if you are using analog connections.
I hope that helps. More of my comments here: http://stereophile.com/musicintheround/music_in_the_round_44/
Yup.Thanks Kal,
When I say yes to sub in player, will I then be able to add the 10dB boost and perform other bass management functions within the Panny DMP-BD85.
Kal,Yup.
