This evening I reset the SA-60 memory, set it to multichannel, digital to off, group to continuous. It played 5.1 splendidly. I stopped the disc and set speakers sizes: mains to large, center and surrounds to small, SW to on. It's still playing! Not sure if I'm brave enough to attempt setting speaker levels. I think I've done these setting without success in the past several days. As I write this, I'm playing a recording of Corelli Concerti Grossi Op. 6 that Kal Rubinson recommended, and it is beautiful in surround.
Esoteric SA-60
Never have I had such problems with a piece of equipment. It's connected to the 7.1 bypass array of a Bryston SP3. The display shows multichannel when I play a surround SACD, but I get sound only from the center channel. I removed the parallel balanced stereo connection between the SA-60 and SP3, but that had no effect. I never heard stereo from the SA-60 when I selected the balanced input, but I think I've heard stereo and multichannel from 7.1 bypass.
The trouble seemed to start when I learned that the SP3 does no processing in the bypass modes so provides no speaker management. I set up speaker management using the menu of the SA-60. But I've tried clearing the SA-60 memory several times since then.
I hope the problem is pilot error and not a defective SA-60.
The trouble seemed to start when I learned that the SP3 does no processing in the bypass modes so provides no speaker management. I set up speaker management using the menu of the SA-60. But I've tried clearing the SA-60 memory several times since then.
I hope the problem is pilot error and not a defective SA-60.
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