C.<p>Hoping maybe the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> hive mind has some ideas about a problem.</p><p>My old workhorse Onkyo AV receiver died a few months back, and I replaced it with a Denon AVR-S970H. And it's driving me nuts.</p><p>My <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> is old, from the final generation of plasmas. Great picture. Sound is okay, but it only understands stereo and mono in uncompressed or AC-3 formats. Anything else sent to it - different codec, or multichannel/surround - is ignored and you get no sound. But that's okay!</p><p>Most of the things I watch that have stereo sound I just want to listen to through the TV anyways - TV shows, old non-spectacle movies, documentaries, all that sort of stuff. When I have a Big Movie with a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/surround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surround</span></a> soundtrack, that's when I want to listen to it through the fancy speakers and the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AVR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVR</span></a>.</p><p>With my old <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Onkyo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Onkyo</span></a>, this was easy: the receiver always played the sound through itself and also sent it to the TV. If I wanted simple stereo, I'd just mute the receiver. If it was a surround sound thing, the TV just ignored it.</p><p>The <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Denon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denon</span></a>... doesn't do this. I have to configure whether to output the sound through the TV, or through the AVR. There's no option for "both".</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HiveMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HiveMind</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>help</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HomeTheater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeTheater</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HomeTheatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeTheatre</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/receiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>receiver</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SurroundSound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurroundSound</span></a></p>