I dont think there is a work around as I tried everything in the receiver settings. Its a bit annoying and I am 99% sure my receiver is set up properly (with all speakers listed as small and bass outputting to the sub)įirst, just after I made that post I tried to connect with SPDIF to my receiver, and lo and behold, 2 channel music works perfectly with my sub! So I guess it is the way my receiver handles the sub pass through part from the multi AV in. I tried searching online but couldnt really find a solution. my two front speakers and my subwoofer.

I cannot figure a way to select a '2.1 channel' mode, I.e. If I select analog out and 2 speakers, then the sub does not work at all with or without FlexBass. But then I am using the rear channels as well and I only want to use the front speakers and sub.

If I enable 'FlexBass' Then the sub starts working. If I keep it at analog out 5.1 - the sub does not engage at all. BUT the problem is that if I want to listen to music, I cant figure out how to get my sub to engage. In the Xonar Audio Center when I choose 'Analog Out - 5.1' and run the test I get discrete audio from each of the 5 speakers. Anyways I hooked it all up and it seemed to be running great at first.

I ended up choosing a used Xonar D2X and I picked up three 3.5mm to 2 RCA cables. Ok fast forward I decided I didnt want to replace my receiver yet so instead I will just buy a sound card which has all 5.1 codecs (DTS, DD etc) and pass analog sound to the multi AV input on my receiver and just use the receiver as like a dummy amp. That was fine for retail DVDs for example but if I downloaded a move with a 5.1 track or was using any source that was not compressed 5.1 it only played stereo unless you turned on a '5.1 mix' setting on the receiver and then it was not true 5.1 anyways so whats the point. Firstly, the receiver is an older one that does not have HDMI so I was hooking up from my MOBO to my receiver with optical/SPDIF, however as some of you may know, you cannot pass uncompressed 5.1 through optical, but you can pass dolby digital and DTS (as my receiver supports these). I wanted to improve the sound from my TV speakers so I picked up a used Yamaha receiver and 2 bookshelf speakers, 2 rears and a sub. Hi guys, so maybe some people in here have come across this problem.īasically I have a gaming/media/all in one PC hooked up in my living room comfy couch style.

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