Goodbye Sony X-800, HELLO Panasonic DP-UB820!

[DarrenHW]

Has it landed yet?

[Marco]

Lol yes, it arrived within two days, but I wanted to wait until I'd received the new mains lead from Mark Grant, as I hate powering these things down once they've been set up, so only wanted to power it up once and leave it there!

And... The bloody post's been a nightmare here. It's taken nearly a week for the cable to arrive today from Mark, sent by 1st class post!! Are you finding the post slow where you are at the moment?

Anyway, I've just set it up and.... It's SUPERB! In terms of the claimed noise, sorry mate, I can't hear anything! Was yours faulty? Honestly, it's silent. However, the picture and sound quality is superb, and a notable upgrade on the departed Sony, which itself was none too shabby!

More later...

However, one thing I haven't sussed yet, although admittedly I haven't tried very hard, is to get the Panny to 'see' my Beresford DAC, when playing CDs, as it automatically defaults to its internal one. The Beresford is connected correctly, via a Toslink cable, from the output on the back of the Panny, to one of its optical inputs, so all seems ok there.

When I had the Sony player, I simply switched inputs on my Sony AV amp (to 'Video 1'), which the DAC is connected to via its analogue outputs, and that would kick in the Beresford, but I'm currently getting nothing via that input

Any suggestions?

Marco.

[DarrenHW]

Sorry, I've only just seen this.

Lol yes, it arrived within two days, but I wanted to wait until I'd received the new mains lead from Mark Grant, as I hate powering these things down once they've been set up, so only wanted to power it up once and leave it there!

And... The bloody post's been a nightmare here. It's taken nearly a week for the cable to arrive today from Mark, sent by 1st class post!! Are you finding the post slow where you are at the moment?

Yes, Royal Mail deliveries are atrocious ATM, they're almost as bad as Amazon!

Anyway, I've just set it up and.... It's SUPERB! In terms of the claimed noise, sorry mate, I can't hear anything! Was yours faulty? Honestly, it's silent. However, the picture and sound quality is superb, and a notable upgrade on the departed Sony, which itself was none too shabby!

I'll have to check yours out, mine is far from silent.

More later...

However, one thing I haven't sussed yet, although admittedly I haven't tried very hard, is to get the Panny to 'see' my Beresford DAC, when playing CDs, as it automatically defaults to its internal one. The Beresford is connected correctly, via a Toslink cable, from the output on the back of the Panny, to one of its optical inputs, so all seems ok there.

When I had the Sony player, I simply switched inputs on my Sony AV amp (to 'Video 1'), which the DAC is connected to via its analogue outputs, and that would kick in the Beresford, but I'm currently getting nothing via that input

Any suggestions?

Marco.

You may have turn to turn HDMI Audio off to get Optical output.

Setting - Player Setting - HDMI - Audio Output.

[Marco]

Sorry, I've only just seen this.



Yes, Royal Mail deliveries are atrocious ATM, they're almost as bad as Amazon!



I'll have to check yours out, mine is far from silent.



You may have turn to turn HDMI Audio off to get Optical output.

Setting - Player Setting - HDMI - Audio Output.

Hi matey,

No worries, I knew you'd be busy. Mine is defo silent, or certainly not noisy in any way as to be intrusive, therefore don't know if they've improved that aspect of their design in the current models. So defo pop round and have a listen - anytime!

I'm still struggling to get sound from the DAC, so will try what you've suggested. What's pissing me off more though, and I've tried every setting I can think of to eliminate it, is when playing CDs, the sound insists on outputting through the centre speaker and surrounds in 'cinema' mode.

I can't seem to get 2-channel stereo for the life of me!

Btw, just to clarify... I've connected up this player the same way as I did the Sony (although this time using an optical as opposed to a coaxial digital cable), and so have an optical cable running from the back of the player to one of the optical inputs on the DAC, then from there the signal leaves the analogue outputs, via a pair of analogue interconnects, into the appropriate input on the back of my Sony amp (same input as before with the Sony).

HDMI connections are exactly as before with the Sony, and with that I had no problems playing CDs in stereo.

So a any ideas why I'm on permanent surround sound mode?

Marco.

[Macca]

does the Sony amp also have a DAC? I thought you had a Denon AVR?

Anyway whatever make it is it seems to be taking your analogue signal and running it through its own DAC.

[DarrenHW]

Settings - Player Settings - HDMI - Advanced Setting - 7.1ch Auto Reformatting - Set to Off.

Settings - Player Settings - Sound - Downmix - Set to Stereo.

Do you know what the maximum supported sample rate is of the Beresford? I think Optical down sampling is set to 192kHz but can be adjusted in Player Settings - Sound - Optical Down Sampling.

[DarrenHW]

does the Sony amp also have a DAC? I thought you had a Denon AVR?

Anyway whatever make it is it seems to be taking your analogue signal and running it through its own DAC.

A good point! Are you outputting PCM or Bitstream?

Settings - Sound - Digital Audio Output.

[Marco]

does the Sony amp also have a DAC? I thought you had a Denon AVR?

Anyway whatever make it is it seems to be taking your analogue signal and running it through its own DAC.

Yes, the Denon amp (sorry, did I mistakenly say Sony?) has its own DAC.

However, when I had the previous Sony Bluray player, connected up the same way, all I did to activate the Beresford was switch inputs on the amp to 'Video 1', which the analogue cables from the DAC are plugged into on the back of the amp, and that kicked in the DAC, so that the sound outputted from that, as opposed to the Denon's built-in one.

However, when I do that now, with the Panny in the equation, I get no sound at all. Therefore, I reckon it's to do with the settings on the Panny Darren has mentioned.

Marco.

[Marco]

Settings - Player Settings - HDMI - Advanced Setting - 7.1ch Auto Reformatting - Set to Off.

Settings - Player Settings - Sound - Downmix - Set to Stereo.

Do you know what the maximum supported sample rate is of the Beresford? I think Optical down sampling is set to 192kHz but can be adjusted in Player Settings - Sound - Optical Down Sampling.

Hi mate, in terms of this and your other post (thanks for that), I won't be able to say what the current settings are, and try yours instead, until Del's finished watching TV and goes to bed, so will report back later

Marco.

[Macca]

Yes, the Denon amp (sorry, did I mistakenly say Sony?) has its own DAC.

However, when I had the previous Sony Bluray player, connected up the same way, all I did to activate the Beresford was switch inputs on the amp to 'Video 1', which the analogue cables from the DAC are plugged into on the back of the amp, and that kicked in the DAC, so that the sound outputted from that, as opposed to the Denon's built-in one.

However, when I do that now, with the Panny in the equation, I get no sound at all. Therefore, I reckon it's to do with the settings on the Panny Darren has mentioned.

Marco.

Yes, has to be.