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May Day!

I just bought a Marantz AV-8801 pre-pro for my main A/V system and am having two issues:
1. Unit will not recognize DVD assignment to HDMI2.....the factory default is this setting, but I keep getting the
message that a new device has been assigned and am directed to go into the Setup Navigator. It's kind of an
endless loop and the unit doesn't acknowledge that I have assigned the DVD input to HDMI2. The device is
actually a second Blu-Ray player, but that shouldn't matter.

2. Audyssey calibration is not picking up my rear surround speakers (7.2 setup), or the second sub. I have
specified there are two subs in whatever menu it is that applies to that. What is frustrating is that everything works
fine in doing a manual speaker setup, but in Audyssey I get an error message about incorrect phase in the
surround speakers. I had an Onkyo PR-SC5508 pre-pro connected before, and had just run the Audyssey
calibration on it a few weeks earlier with no problems. I checked all speaker connections and everything is jake
with that. Any ideas from other AV-8801 owners? I have owned at least three other pre-pros, so I'm not a novice
at this.
discnik

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discnik OP
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Thanks kr4......I figured #2 out yesterday when I discovered you have to
tell Audyssey about the second sub and rear surrounds. The HDMI glitch is puzzling.....nothing was assigned to it when I got the unit from the original owner, so it should be acknowledging the assignment of DVD to the input, but it's not. I guess I'll try resetting to the factory defaults for the second time to see if that will work.
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