Weird Home Audio Issue

polishmafia · 10-01-2015

Just throwing this out there to see if anyone has any ideas for me to troubleshoot.

I have a Sony Visio tv, connected to it are a cable box via HDMI cable, and a PS4 also connected via HDMI cable.

The audio when watching anything on cable is perfectly fine. But sometimes when I change the input to the PS4, the left and right audio channels are reversed. The only way I know how to correct it is to turn off the tv and turn it back on.

I'm stumped. Any ideas?

tehehodi · 10-01-2015

You don't have any audio equipment it goes to or are you using the TV speakers?
(BTW, tv speakers suck and a sound bar is a cheap solution to fixing it)

polishmafia · 10-01-2015

Gremlins in the home theater watching a movie whos audio has gremlins in it. Nice! haha

I have a 3 piece Bose system. Two speakers, and an enclosed sub.

A//// Guy · 10-01-2015

Thats really weird, has to be whatever is outputting the sound, so in this case it sounds like the PS4 is messing up the audio signal. Did you maybe try a different HDMI from the PS4 to the Bose? Or how do you feed sound to the Bose system? Through the TV?

polishmafia · 10-01-2015

I don't think its the PS4 because turning the TV off and on again fixes the issue. It must be the output from the TV to the Bose system. I'm not sure how its connected - I'll have to check it tomorrow.

tehehodi · 10-01-2015

I use the digital optical cable on my tv and it works really well. The only issue I've had is when I lose the remote and spend 10-15 minutes finding it when I can just press the on button.

Maybe Sid chewed through a small portion of the HDMI cable. Quick reads on the interwebs says this is a better option.

polishmafia · 10-02-2015

Well the issue started a few days ago, so unless the ghost of Sid chewed through one of the cables, I don't think that's the problem.

I guess I'll keep googling to try and find some more info.

curt_gendron · 10-05-2015

It is probably your TV getting stupid when changing inputs. Can you send the audio to the Bose system through a optical cable? Or even try an analog cable to see if that makes a difference.

Does you Bose system have a digital pass through like a receiver has? In other words the ability to have all the TV signals go to it and pass the TV signal to the TV and the audio out to the speakers. Then that would be doing the "switching" instead of your TV.