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Title: 5 channel SACD ISO playback fails
Post by: jacobacci on September 13, 2013, 02:25:43 am
Hi all,
I have been using SACD ISO playback for a little while now. Works great, excellent sound quality.
I stream via HDMI Wasapi to an Onkyo PR SC5507. I have noticed that 2ch and 6ch tracks play fine, but 5 channel tracks fail (all 24bit/176kHz). MC suggest to convert them to 2ch.
Has any one else run into this issue?
Regards
Rudi
Title: Re: 5 channel SACD ISO playback fails
Post by: 6233638 on September 13, 2013, 05:11:27 am
Try setting Media Center's output to 5.1 in DSP Studio > Output Format.
Title: Re: 5 channel SACD ISO playback fails
Post by: Matt on September 13, 2013, 04:05:19 pm
Almost no hardware supports 5 channel output.  So you need to use DSP Studio > Output Format to output a format that works with your hardware.
Title: Re: 5 channel SACD ISO playback fails
Post by: baniels on January 06, 2014, 11:22:42 pm
I'm having the same issue sending audio via hdmi to an Onkyo 805.

Changing the output channels to 5.1 makes these 5 channel tracks play. The side effect is that everything is now passes along as multichannel to the receiver (no upmixing - stereo is still 2 channel, but in a 5.1 container).

I prefer to leave the channels untouched when possible. Is there a way to activate this only on those sacd tracks with 5 channels?
Title: Re: 5 channel SACD ISO playback fails
Post by: resai on January 18, 2014, 06:26:06 am
same problem here with 5 channel sacd iso's.
any ideas?
Title: Re: 5 channel SACD ISO playback fails
Post by: resai on January 20, 2014, 02:05:51 am
again problem solved with a little bit searching :)

you have to define different zones (at least two zones for me) , one for 2 channel and 5.1 channel sacd playing , and one for 5.0 sacd playing.
same channels for the first zone and force 5.1 channels for the second one.
and then use zone switching.
jriver is the best so far..