Have a couple of questions, one old one...
1) Per hawk01’s first
question, when using the internal amp, would SINAD become lower than 99 from the review in this thread (which needed internal amp turned off just to get the score of 99)? I’m only using it for stereo actually and hawk01 was asking about 5 channels.
2) With Audyssey turned on, does that mean that any signal, especially even analog inputs like CD IN, get downsampled to 24-bit, 48 kHz?
3) Even with Audyssey turned off and using CD IN, when the speakers are set to “Small,” it will digitize and downsample to 96 kHz. Turning on direct mode would give the original non-downsampled signal, but subwoofers won’t have sound unless maybe I set them to “large?”
Also, does this mean that, when the speakers are set to “Small” and NOT in direct mode, but I have a nicer DAC going into the CD Input, the quality of that nicer DAC gets “overridden” by the x3600h’s internal DAC therefore losing some sound quality, going back to SINAD of 99 or lower?
Or, maybe this all doesn’t matter because the analog input’s SINAD might still about the same as the internal DAC’s score of 99 (...maybe based on the updated x4700h review)?
4) FYI, when using the video overlay features, the colors were very slightly off, noticeable when using HDMI from my laptop. I only tried overlay once though. It seemed convenient to adjust the AVR’s settings with video still in the background. The off color was fixed as soon as the overlay features were turned off. Also, I keep it off just to be a purist and maybe keep picture quality up and latency as low as possible, if that even matters. I still keep it on “movie,” but switch to “game” when I feel like being picky. Not sure there are much measurements of DSP vs latency with home audio and other things like SVS SB-2000 Pro’s internal EQ and other powered studio monitors with room EQ.