Panasonic SA BX 500 speaker setup

[Clarence Crow]

Newbie here

Have Panasonic SA BX 500 AV receiver wired 5.1 to Krix ceiling mounted
speakers plus Krik Active subwoofer.

Been over the Manual several times but cannot get perceptible output
from LS speaker & only intermittent from RS speaker, when playing
Blu-Ray Disc on action movies.

With receiver only connected On Auto-Test @ - 33dB I've set all
speaker volumes to about 5db with 7db on centre one.

The speaker distances have all been measured manually.

The subwoofer shakes the walls when it cuts in on low-pass.

Any suggestions?

-Please reply to group as my email addr is fake!

-Regards CC

[..:..]

Sometimes, optical out, if you are using that is PCM on Blu-Ray players by
default. You need to go into set up menu to make a change to tell it to
stream Dolby Digital etc. Default is usually 5.1 etc via HDMI

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"Clarence Crow" <cr...@perch.biz> wrote in message
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[Clarence Crow]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:39:36 +0800, "..:.." <news...@iinet.net.au>
wrote:

>Sometimes, optical out, if you are using that is PCM on Blu-Ray players by
>default. You need to go into set up menu to make a change to tell it to
>stream Dolby Digital etc. Default is usually 5.1 etc via HDMI

Lifted the dbs on both side speakers on the AV receiver and now have
some reasonable output.
Changed all the Sound settings on the Blu-ray player from Auto to User
Defined and output increased somewhat.
DTS discs give best results, but generally not up to expectations for
the total cash outlaid for the system. :(
Seems like it all needs to be tweaked for every application.
Sometimes the AV receiver locks up and needs unplugging to reset.

Only stuck with Panasonic to use the Viera link across all units via
HDMI.