Odd Surround Sound Issue

[FireBean]

I have an old school Sony STR-D511. It only does Prologic I, but I think it's still neet to have since i picked it up with speakers for 10 bucks! Here is the problem. when using ANY surround sound setting, only the right channel get audio. If you put the max the balance to the left speaker, and max out the volume, then you can hear the Center and Rears.

Is there something damaged with the receiver? I tested all the speakers and they check out fine. Stereo works great as well. Ideas?

 

[frowertr]

Are you saying the left channel NEVER works? Or is it not working only in surround mode?

If it is only a Prologic AVR then I'm assuming the audio inputs are limited to RCA components only, correct? You sure you have the audio inputs correctly connected? Is the audio cable good? And are you sure the audio outputs from whatever playback device you are using are also setup correctly and actually working?

 

[FireBean]

Only in surround does this happen
Everything is RCA, nothing else.
I've used two different known good cables, and tested with volt meter.
Red to Red, White to White. I'd have to pretty damn ignrant to now know where to plugs these into.
I've used CD and DVD's to test audio. Even tried playing with my XFI and forcing it to encode... no dice.

 

[frowertr]

Only in surround does this happen
Everything is RCA, nothing else.
I've used two different known good cables, and tested with volt meter.
Red to Red, White to White. I'd have to pretty damn ignrant to now know where to plugs these into.
I've used CD and DVD's to test audio. Even tried playing with my XFI and forcing it to encode... no dice.

Your sure the playback device's audio outputs work properly?

You might just have a bum decoder chip in the AVR. But, heh, you only paid $10 so...

 

[FireBean]

Ya... I wouldn't doubt it. It still has some serious kicking stereo, when without a sub. =)

I'm going to open it up later tonight and take a look see.

 

[JimboHouston]

I have a sony STR-D511 receiver. Some time ago, we had a power surge, and the display began to blink PROTECT. According to the manual this indicates a short circuit, and the recommended solution is to "eliminate the short circuit". My question is HOW does one do that?