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#290369 6-Nov-2021 20:53
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I'm in the initial stages of setting a RX-V6A with an LG C1 and having sound issues.  I am using the eARC/ARC output from the receiver into HDMI 2 (which is marked eARC/ARC) on the TV using this cable from PBTech  and I am unable to get sound back from the TV to the receiver.  That is to say I have sound from the Sky Box, but if I use the YouTube app or play an MP4 via the TV USB input, I have no sound.

 

Is this likely to be the HDMI cable?  I have probably ballsed up the settings on the TV, but AFAICT I have it set to external speaker with the TV speaker disabled.

 

It's taken me three days to set up the speakers and lay the cables, but that includes putting a ceiling speaker hole in the wrong place.  I used that trick with the bent wire that you set to the radius of the speaker hole, and poke it through a small hole and if you can rotate it 360° you are good to go.  Unfortunately I found a joist/baton whatever 50mm clear of the drywall, which was not deep enough to clear the speaker, so I had to move the hole 90mm and patch the erroneous hole.  That was a mission all in itself as I am not the world's greatest plasterer, but I got it flat after realising I needed to thin down the last coat, but I have not exactly matched the texture of the rest of the ceiling. 

 

I started the installation after dropping my wife off at the airport for a two month trip to the UK to look after her mum, which is just as well as there is no way I could have made that mess while she was here!





Trevor Dennis
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TLD

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  #2816982 22-Nov-2021 11:39
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OK< I now have everything working after more than three days of frustration and hours of RTFMs.  It was starting to look like the unit had a fault as I found a bunch of near identical issues with the same receiver on various forums (Audioholics and Home Theatre Shack).  Several posters suggested a hard reset, but others had returned their units after failing to fix HDMI issues.  So what fixed mine?  After all the hard resets and return to vendor suggestion, a poster on Home Theatre Shack suggested I start with a soft reset — that is power down the receiver from the wall (like we do with problem modem/routers).  I did that this morning and after 45 minutes unplugged, I could tell straight awa that the receiver was behaving differently when powered back on.  The TV now went to a fully black screen instead of the Wed OS dashboard.  There was no click when I het the setup button (I'd been told that shouldn't be happening) and the setup menu came right up on the screen.  I reconnected the original plumbed in HDMI cables with Sky box now connected to the receiver as well as the blueray player, and everything works as it should.  The receiver auto switches to the powered on source, and I had not lost the individual HDMI settings suggested by Dunnersfella back up this thread.

 

One more useful bit of info.  Most of the hard reset suggestions were more complicated than they apparently needed to be.  The same poster who suggested the soft reset (power down) also had much more straightforward process to reset the RX-V6A

 

Press the MENU/CONNECT button just below the select knob on the front panel. Then, turn the knob until you see Settings and press it. Turn the knob again until you see Initialization and press it. You will see All Initialization. Press the knob again and you will see Cancel. Turn the knob to Execute and then press it. You will see Reconfirmation and Cancel. Turn the knob to Execute and press it. The receiver will power off and turn back on in factory reset mode.





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