Jeff Fearnside
Stunt Coordinator
I posted this elsewhere and got some good, well-intentioned responses that, alas, did not solve the issue. So I thought I would try here.
I’ve been having strange audio issues that I cannot figure out. When I play Blu-ray discs, sometimes they play perfectly. At other times, the picture is fine (I’ve never had trouble with the picture) but the audio is gone. I’ve tracked no particular pattern to this. Everything can work fine for several days in a row, and then the sound might cut out for a few days. Or it can alternate.
When the sound goes, the only way I’ve discovered to get it to play is to turn everything off—the Blu-ray player, receiver amp, and TV—wait 10 seconds, and then turn everything back on again. Sometimes I have to do that twice or even three times. It’s like the audio is “stuck,” for lack of a better word, and needs to be reset.
This only started happening maybe a year ago. Because my old Blu-ray player is almost 10 years old, I thought perhaps it was just nearing the end, so I bought a new player. While I was hooking it up, I dusted everything off, installed a brand-new HDMI cable, and plugged into a different HDMI input, just in case the one I had been using had gone bad.
The audio issue persists.
So, the problem does not appear to relate to the Blu-ray player, HDMI cable, or amp input. Speaker cables seem fine; I’ve double checked them and made sure there’s nothing that might be causing a short. There’s no hissing or intermittent cutting out. Either the sound is perfect or it’s gone.
Could there be something else going on with my receiver amp? Or perhaps my TV?
Why does the picture always come through as clear as day no matter what, but the sound sometimes stubbornly remains mute until it’s “reset”?
If it helps, my setup includes a Sony BDP-BX370 region-free Blu-ray player (my old one is a Sony BDP-S5100E region-free player that still generally works fine but with this strange audio issue), a Samsung UN60J6200 60-Inch 1080p Smart LED TV, and a Harman Kardon AVR 1510 75-watt receiver amp.
Thanks for any advice anyone can offer!
I’ve been having strange audio issues that I cannot figure out. When I play Blu-ray discs, sometimes they play perfectly. At other times, the picture is fine (I’ve never had trouble with the picture) but the audio is gone. I’ve tracked no particular pattern to this. Everything can work fine for several days in a row, and then the sound might cut out for a few days. Or it can alternate.
When the sound goes, the only way I’ve discovered to get it to play is to turn everything off—the Blu-ray player, receiver amp, and TV—wait 10 seconds, and then turn everything back on again. Sometimes I have to do that twice or even three times. It’s like the audio is “stuck,” for lack of a better word, and needs to be reset.
This only started happening maybe a year ago. Because my old Blu-ray player is almost 10 years old, I thought perhaps it was just nearing the end, so I bought a new player. While I was hooking it up, I dusted everything off, installed a brand-new HDMI cable, and plugged into a different HDMI input, just in case the one I had been using had gone bad.
The audio issue persists.
So, the problem does not appear to relate to the Blu-ray player, HDMI cable, or amp input. Speaker cables seem fine; I’ve double checked them and made sure there’s nothing that might be causing a short. There’s no hissing or intermittent cutting out. Either the sound is perfect or it’s gone.
Could there be something else going on with my receiver amp? Or perhaps my TV?
Why does the picture always come through as clear as day no matter what, but the sound sometimes stubbornly remains mute until it’s “reset”?
If it helps, my setup includes a Sony BDP-BX370 region-free Blu-ray player (my old one is a Sony BDP-S5100E region-free player that still generally works fine but with this strange audio issue), a Samsung UN60J6200 60-Inch 1080p Smart LED TV, and a Harman Kardon AVR 1510 75-watt receiver amp.
Thanks for any advice anyone can offer!