Inputs to home cinema amp

[chelon]

Been trying to resurrect an old  DAV-DZ860W system and the audio is pretty poor, I'm trying to find out why.

The input options appear to be:-

Optical

SCART

Phono

Does anyone know which one of these will give the best results ?

[IamNic]

Hello @chelon,

if anything I would use optical. Phono is meant for turntables without an inbuild pre-amp and scart is audio+video, so probably not fit for your device you want to connect to.

- Nic

[Lord_viridis]

Another vote here for optical.

For sound quality and performance, optical was (and still is) considered one of the top consumer audio options.

[Griffin_door]

Hi, Yes i agree here optical is the way to go since there is no HDMI ports, right now HDMI is considered the best option but out the options available for this device i think optical would be the best.

[Sonyvores]

it depends of your source. What device you wanna connect to your DAV?

[HannahEd01]

Hey chelon, what does the other device support regarding connections? Does it output just audio? Or pic and audio? 

[chelon]

Have done some further testing.

I connected the HDMI from the receiver to the TV and accessed the OSD. Ran through the "quick setup"

Then played a CD in the receiver player - sounded ok, but not blistering; but you can certainly hear some output from the sub and the surrounds.

Then tried again using the optical from the TV-receiver and also tried the phono outputs from the separate digital TV box direct to the receiver. Both gave similar results, as before there is output from all speakers but pretty disappointing levels.

In the receiver manual it says to receive Dolby Digital via the optical, you have to set the TV output to Dolby. On my TV the only audio settings are PCM or compressed. Could that be important ie it doesn't support Dolby? It's a fairly modern TV about 7 years old so with an optical output I'd have thought it would?

[HannahEd01]

@chelon, what's the model number of the TV?

[chelon]

Thanks, it's a 42hb742u

[HannahEd01]

Oh it's not Sony? I'm sorry, try contacting the TV support.