A95K Digital output to HT-A7000.

[TheRealKjalarr]

I have a Bravia A95K and a HT-A7000 Soundbar. Can someone explain to me why Auto 2, output only compressed audio for multichannel content without change. Sounds better than Auto 1, Output compressed audio without change. When I output the Digital output from my TV to my soundbar.

[royabrown2]

@TheRealKjalarr 

Can you first explain why you are messing about with Optical instead of HDMI, on a hi-spec TV with eARC to a high-spec soundbar with eARC?

[TheRealKjalarr]

royabrown2

I'm not messing about with Optical instead of HDMI. I'm using HDMI

[royabrown2]

@TheRealKjalarr 

I was misled by the spec:-

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/televisions/a95k-series/specifications

DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT(S)              1 (Bottom)

Terminology, terminology 😢

[royabrown2]

@TheRealKjalarr 

Where do I find Auto 1 and Auto 2 on this TV? I’ve looked in the web manual, and found nothing.

And, as a variant on the question I asked before, why use compressed modes when you have eARC?

But in the absence of anything else to go on, I would suggest that it’s a subjective preference of yours. Nothing wrong with that. But does it depend on what you are listening to?

When you say it sounds better than the other option, what’s the source material? Speech, music, cinema? 5.1 or 2.0, and so on?

[rooobb · Accepted solution]

This post may help understanding the setting https://us.community.sony.com/s/question/0D50B00005W85hFSAR/please-explain-these-settings-and-when-t...

Then it may depends on what you are listening : if we are talking about stereo signal it may be better for the soundbar to receive an lpcm flow from the TV than a Dolby audio 2.0 channel unconverted. On multichannel audio it should not change anything 

[TheRealKjalarr]

rooobb 

LPCM on the HT-A7000 makes a better surround audio on Auto 2 than Dolby Audio 2.0 I have experienced