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tannoy man
12-01-2015, 21:39
Hi, I have a Smart TV and its routed into my Benchmark DAC via an Optical Cable, Youtube, TV and everything else sounds great but with NETFLIX all I get is loud Chattering noise:steam: any idea what's going on?
PS NETFLIX is fine through the TV Speakers
Spectral Morn
12-01-2015, 21:47
Hi, I have a Smart TV and its routed into my Benchmark DAC via an Optical Cable, Youtube, TV and everything else sounds great but with NETFLIX all I get is loud Chattering noise:steam: any idea what's going on?
PS NETFLIX is fine through the TV Speakers
Sounds like they are feeding a Dolby Digital signal which requires a DD decoder to decode.
Tv may be decoding the signal internally. The answer probably lies in the specs, TV set up instructions.
Regards Neil
tannoy man
12-01-2015, 21:53
Thank you Neil, is there any way around this problem?
Netflix's output I think is Dolby Digital Plus, which isn't compatible with optical (SPDIF) bandwidth me thinks.
tannoy man
12-01-2015, 22:08
I have had a look WEB and this seems very common
Netflix's output I think is Dolby Digital Plus, which isn't compatible with optical (SPDIF) bandwidth me thinks.
Just set the TV's digital output to 2ch stereo rather than DD 5.1 most TV's/PVR's have provision for this in their settings menus.
tannoy man
12-01-2015, 23:46
IL give it a go, thanks
I watch NETFLIX regularly routing the sound via optical cable from TV to a Beresford 7520 DAC and have never encountered problems so would tend to agree that this is more likely a TV setting than NETFLIX output per se....
... mind you, my TV is a bit old and not very smart :D
I take you have 2 channel and not a 5.1 speaker system so set the tv to output the former and you may have to set the output to digi out from the tv menu.
Hi there,
had the same problem with a BT vision box. Just changed the output to 2ch. stereo from 5.1 DD. Works! Job done.
T12:)
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