Denon AVR-X4800H AVR Review

[kyuu]

Right now I have a much more annoying problem: since the last Win11 update, I am no longer able to listen to music over HDMI w/o klicks and pops.

My RME is not affected even with low latency settings for VST use.

Utterly ridiculous that a simple OS update can break something as basic as frikkin audio playback. :<

Have you checked audio settings to make sure something like the sampling rate hasn't been set inappropriately? I haven't experienced this issue, although I'm generally only ever listening to games via HDMI from Windows.

 

[Aerith Gainsborough]

Have you checked audio settings to make sure something like the sampling rate hasn't been set inappropriately? I haven't experienced this issue, although I'm generally only ever listening to games via HDMI from Windows.

I even wiped the entire system because I thought the update was borked. :'D

SR is set at a bog standard 48K16, which is required for to avoid resampling when I use my VST.

I know my audio settings but I never had an issue this resilient.

Yes HDMI is required for game surround sound and sometimes I listen to music like that as well.

 

[kyuu]

I even wiped the entire system because I thought the update was borked. :'D

SR is set at a bog standard 48K16, which is required for to avoid resampling when I use my VST.

Hm. The only other thing I can think to try is a reinstall/update of the drivers for your audio chipset (I'm guessing this would be AMD/Nvidia given this is HDMI), though one would think that would have been taken care of if you "wiped the entire system".

 

[Aerith Gainsborough]

Hm. The only other thing I can think to try is a reinstall/update of the drivers for your audio chipset (I'm guessing this would be AMD/Nvidia given this is HDMI), though one would think that would have been taken care of if you "wiped the entire system".

Well it's HDMI. It's not as if you CAN set much.
Disable the Windows "enhancements", kill the energy saving nonsense. pick a sample rate (which one does not matter much, since we have 0 information about what games and other media usually use, so resampling will be done by the windows mixer at some point) and if it doesn't work after that you're basically shit out of luck. .___.

 

[dlaloum]

Well it's HDMI. It's not as if you CAN set much.
Disable the Windows "enhancements", kill the energy saving nonsense. pick a sample rate (which one does not matter much, since we have 0 information about what games and other media usually use, so resampling will be done by the windows mixer at some point) and if it doesn't work after that you're basically shit out of luck. .___.

On my setup the HDMI is provided by the AMD GPU, and it is dependent on the AMD drivers....

I havn't yet upgraded to Win11... but did have issues a couple of years back which were resolved in the end by updates to the AMD drivers...

With Win11 you are probably getting update drivers for your GPU - and the audio side (HDMI) is often the part that gets the leaste attention from the developers....

 

[Aerith Gainsborough]

On my setup the HDMI is provided by the AMD GPU, and it is dependent on the AMD drivers....

I havn't yet upgraded to Win11... but did have issues a couple of years back which were resolved in the end by updates to the AMD drivers...

With Win11 you are probably getting update drivers for your GPU - and the audio side (HDMI) is often the part that gets the leaste attention from the developers....

Yeah NVIDIA drivers is where it's at. Since I use a 5090, I regularly update them. However the HDMI playback has the problems on 2 different studio driver versions, so I can rule that one out.

MS has confirmed some HDMI related issues with Windows 11 25H2. So perhaps what I am seeing is a spill-over effect from these issues (the confirmed issues revolve around DRM protected content). Guess I have to sit tight and hope they fix it.

Oddly enough: games have far less issues than media players. o__O

Oh well, in the mean time I just use my 2 channel chain and pipe music through the RME.

 

[dlaloum]

Yeah NVIDIA drivers is where it's at. Since I use a 5090, I regularly update them. However the HDMI playback has the problems on 2 different studio driver versions, so I can rule that one out.

MS has confirmed some HDMI related issues with Windows 11 25H2. So perhaps what I am seeing is a spill-over effect from these issues (the confirmed issues revolve around DRM protected content). Guess I have to sit tight and hope they fix it.

Oddly enough: games have far less issues than media players. o__O

Oh well, in the mean time I just use my 2 channel chain and pipe music through the RME.

I updated my HTPC to Win11 this afternoon - it is an AM4 motherboard using an APU (with onboard GPU) - the default Windows AMD drivers downloaded, updated and all was fine - checked the various streaming apps, audio player etc...

Everything seems OK.... fingers crossed...

 

[Aerith Gainsborough]

Everything seems OK.... fingers crossed...

Indeed.

There is one thing that really irks me about the amp and that is: it loves to disconnect the speakers when HDMI handshake is interrupted.
I have not found a way to coax it into actually reactivating said speakers when the handshake is restored. I always have to power cycle the entire unit.

User error or feature? :'D