DannyD
09-13-2008, 11:15 PM
I just finished hooking up a surround sound system for a friend of mine. It consists fo the polk audio rm85 speaker package with a denon avr689. First off something really weird happened. After conecting all the speakers, I turned the reciever on and a popping sound came from the reciever followed by a tiny bit of smoke coming through the vents on the top of the reciever. Naturally I was freaking. The funny thing is everything seems to be working fine. The speakers sound ok and the reciever itself seems to be functioning fine as well. Does anybody have any thoughts on what the hell happened???
Also, all he had with him were analog rca's (red white and yellow) to hook up his dvd player. I couldn't get the denon to switch to dolby digital for a movie I know is capable of dolby digital. All I could get the receiver to do was dolby prologicII. I am assuming this is because he is not running a digital optical audio cable from the dvd player to the receiver. Am I right or am I doing something else wrong? This denon seems to be alot more complicated than my HK. My HK seems to be way more user friendly. Will it sound much better using digital optical over the analog rca's? any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Also, all he had with him were analog rca's (red white and yellow) to hook up his dvd player. I couldn't get the denon to switch to dolby digital for a movie I know is capable of dolby digital. All I could get the receiver to do was dolby prologicII. I am assuming this is because he is not running a digital optical audio cable from the dvd player to the receiver. Am I right or am I doing something else wrong? This denon seems to be alot more complicated than my HK. My HK seems to be way more user friendly. Will it sound much better using digital optical over the analog rca's? any help with this is greatly appreciated.