Improved TV Sound!!!

Posted by: Greg Beatty on 02 March 2003

OK - this probably amounts to little more than me admitting my own stupdidity, but if only one forum member gains benefit from my experience it will have been worth it.

I've had our cable hooked up to the tele and the Nait via the VCR. That is, the hookup was:

Cable from Wall-->VCR-->TV-->Nait 5

Our VCR is NOT a hi-fi/stero VCR. It is a four-head model, but not hi-fi/stereo. I had assumed that, when the VCR was off, it would just pass the coax signal through.

Not So!

I don't know why, but it "mono'ed" the signal. Also took away from the highs and lows.

In setting up a digital cable box, I compared by wiring the cable from the wall directly to the tele as is in:

Cable from Wall-->tele-->Nait 5

Wow!!! Bass, air, and an open, stereo presentation replaced the flat, all-in-the-center presentation.

Check your setup and see if you have made the same, easily correctable, mistake.

- GregB

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Posted on: 03 March 2003 by Wolf

I finally got rid of my VCR because I don't use it much and hated having to re sync the channel when I changed on the TV. Now my signal goes from cable->box-> 92 + TV. every time I change channels the sound changes in the 92. So wonderful and makes TV a pleasure. don't know what I'm going to do when I get a DVD...

Posted on: 03 March 2003 by Linds

Coax carries mono!

I had a similar issue with a Toshiba Nicam Stereo telly AND a Toshiba Nicam Stereo video!

Toshiba helpline informed me that the coax from video to TV carries ONLY A MONO SIGNAL. Whereas the SCART cable carries the stereo signal. As your video is non-stereo it is taking the stereo signal from cable, and mono-ing it up a coax to the telly.

BTW, how is your 2nd configuration of "Cable from Wall-->tele-->Nait 5" actually wired i.e. how do you get from tele to Nait 5?!

!!! There's always money somewhere for the next upgrade... !!!

Posted on: 03 March 2003 by Greg Beatty

My tele is a 55" Mitsubishi Projection model. Whatever people may say about Mits, the sets have loads of inputs and outputs.

In order to minimize the number of things having to go into the Nait 5, I route all video sound through the tele and then out to the Nait 5. A standard Chort RCA->DIN cable does the job. I can also route the DVD sound directly to the Nait, but that's an extra connection.

- GregB

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Posted on: 03 March 2003 by Greg Beatty

Wolf -

The answer to having to switch things when changing sources is one of these:

MX-500 Universal Remote

Each device button can be programmed to execute a macro if the button is held down for 1 sec or more. For example, when DVD is held down, the macro switches the TV to the DVD input, switches the Nait to the appropriate audio, and turns on the DVD player. My wife LOVES this thing!!!

Its the LP12 of remotes. Not the sexiest, but lots of Pronto and Sony touchscreen customers dump those for one of these.

- GregB

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Posted on: 03 March 2003 by Wolf

thanks I'll look into it