Strange behavior on a Pansonic SA-XR30 receiver

[Slick5150]

So I wound up picking up a used Panasonic SA-SR30 "all digital" receiver this week. It behaves strangely though. I'm running a DTS encoded signal from my PC to it over optical, and when I first turn the receiver on, it correctly picks up the signal as DTS and everything LOOKS right, but the only sound is muffled and coming from the subwoofer (like its sending everything to the subwoofer which doesn't know what to do with most of it). After a minute or so, without touching anything, all of a sudden all the speakers will kick in and everything works fine.

I tried switching my sound card to DD-Live rather than DTS, same thing.

Any thoughts on what would cause that?

 

[NutBucket]

What happens when you feed it other sources? How about FM?

 

[Slick5150]

Correction: See below

 

[Slick5150]

Woops. Tested it again by plugging my phone in via analog L/R, and it worked fine right away, then quickly switched to the optical input from my PC, and it was doing it's weird muffled subwoofer thing as described above. Let it sit for a minute, and, as usual, it begins working right.

Strange. Any ideas?

 

[Fallen Kell]

Did you try resetting it to factory defaults? A lot of times this clears up strange things like this. Not sure of the proceedure with that model. Many use a combination of holding a few buttons down on the remote control while powering on the unit, some have you hold in the power button for 5 seconds... You can probably look it up online.

 

[ericlp]

Try a DVD player with optical out and hook it up and see if that works.

I'm thinking the pc doesn't have a standard coding and maybe it takes a few seconds for the unit to figure out what kinda input it's expecting. Tho, thats my guess.

Try a new cable or just use the coax (analog) digital port to see if that helps any.