Help Needed With OLED TV & Sound Set Up

[demon8991]

Hey all,

Long time out of the TV and Audio Tech space, current TV is a Samsung Plasma from 2011 lol.

I am currently doing some renovation work in my lounge which will involve removing sheets from the wall so will have access to move power, networking, brush plates etc.

I have just bought an LG G1 65" OLED which I will be wall mounting and I am currently using a Yamaha YSP 1600 Soundbar with Sub.

I use Plex for my Blu Rays that I have ripped which have 5.1, 7.1 DTS, Atmos etc.

Questions I have are:

• Outside of power, CAT6 (thinking 2 in middle or wall and 2 at TV unit) and brush plates are there any extra things I need to include? I am also thinking a draw wire just in case I want to bring anything else down the wall in future.

• I find the whole eARC and Audio thing so confusing, what limitation(s) if any will my Yamaha setup have with the media I use and the TV? Will there be some functionality that I won't be getting with the Soundbar?

• I also have a monster PC (5900x + 3090) that I use for productivity and gaming that I was potentially thinking about hooking it up from another room. Would active fibre optic HDMI cables work over a distance of lets say 20-25m? If so which cables should I go for?

Any other thoughts and advice would be great.

 

[Radox-0]

On the eARC Front it allows you to send through uncompressed audio. All the devices in the chain need to be eARC so in your case it will not matter as your Yamaha YSP 1600 soundbar does not support eARC. You will still get the other formats fine. As a note, LG dropped codec support for DTS on recent OLED's including the G1, So the TV will not send or passthrough DTS Codec's. If you really want to play DTS, can see that your soundbar has a pair of HDMI ports, "In" and "Out" (ARC) so you could connect a device you want to play DTS from to the the "In" port on your soundbar then have an ARC Connection to the TV via the "Out" port.

In regards to the optic cable, I have a few 20m ones off the rainforest, can see your on gold coast rather then here, but ones I use were all around 20m for £80 or so mark and worked fine. This is with a RTX 3090 also into a OLED doing 120hz @ 4k and HDR, G-Sync etc, no issues. Would see what's rated well on your rainforest and can easily return etc.

 

[demon8991]

Awesome, thanks so much for your help.

So will my current Yamaha Soundbar compress the audio?

I noticed the DTS not working last night as the Plex Server was transcoding the audio, is there a reason why DTS support was dropped? I think I will probably end up with a Nvidia Shield at some point to be honest.

Great to know about the optic cable, the PC sits central in the house and I am pretty confident I can reach both lounges with a couple of 20m cables which will be awesome.

How do you deal with USB devices, such as controllers and race wheels when the computer is in another room?

 

[lucid]

Your sound bar doesn't compress the audio. It's the TV that determines what it can pass based on its own capabilities and the capabilities of any audio gear connected to it. This is all done via the HDCP part of HDMI communication.

For your system if using ARC, that connection only supports 2 ch PCM, ProLogic II, DD 5.1 and DTS 5.1...potentially. That's what your Yam could accept if available via ARC.

The TV won't pass DTS. This is why Plex was transcoding.

 

[Radox-0]

Awesome, thanks so much for your help.

So will my current Yamaha Soundbar compress the audio?

I noticed the DTS not working last night as the Plex Server was transcoding the audio, is there a reason why DTS support was dropped? I think I will probably end up with a Nvidia Shield at some point to be honest.

Great to know about the optic cable, the PC sits central in the house and I am pretty confident I can reach both lounges with a couple of 20m cables which will be awesome.

How do you deal with USB devices, such as controllers and race wheels when the computer is in another room?

Lucid provided a update since this post which covers most your points. On LG dropping the DTS aspect, not sure something behind the scene. They had DTS Support upto the 2019 models then dropped it from there.

I did a purpose built gaming HTPC for the OLED, so do not have the issue of devices in sperate room to the PC, PC sits 5m away from the TV in terms of cable run. I got a bunch of cables to review though so gone through bunch of 20m optical ones. I think though people use active USB connections or in other cases, but having not used any of that myself, hesitant on what to suggest :/