Xiaomi to launch Mi TV Q1 75" on 23rd March - QLED, 192 Zones, 120Hz

ARC on AVR and pass through on TV have been enabled. I'll try toggling input on AVR to see if it makes any difference. Thanks.

Which AVR you bought and for how much? And is everything working as expected with this AVR? I'm thinking of upgrading the AVR sometime next year or may be around Diwali if some irresistible deal is available.
I moved to Denon X2700H, and everything is working perfect. My primary source is 4K firestick and am using TV as dumb display panel. Here is the current setup..


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I went for Denon X2700H. Plugged the Firestick to AVR.

Also, the TV apps including Netflix, Prime, Tidal etc are working fine. AVR is getting DD+ and ATMOS through eArc from TV.
How much did you get x2700h for? I've been eyeing it for a while but the price, atleast online, is quite high these days.
 
Got Firestick 4k delivered. I would recommend every q1 customer to buy it. Motion/ Performance difference is very stark. Apps like prime video run very differently and significantly better than anything as said same by @lightgamer
 

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In fact, the issue seems to be beyond ARC. I tested with SPDIF. When passthrough is selected the sound is muffled and can barely hear anything. On selecting Dolby Digital on TV, the sound is there but there is no surround sound.

My suggestion, don't check with their 55inch TV as underlying H/W architecture and software would be same.
Hi, have you been able to solve this issue? Was out of action for a couple of weeks. I have the same problem where passthrough to AVR has very low volume. Need to set it to Dolby digital. In this case, stereo content is upmixed to dolby digital which causes vocals to bleed to left and right channels also.
 
Hi, have you been able to solve this issue? Was out of action for a couple of weeks. I have the same problem where passthrough to AVR has very low volume. Need to set it to Dolby digital. In this case, stereo content is upmixed to dolby digital which causes vocals to bleed to left and right channels also.
Yes.. I changed the AVR to the one with eARC
 
I moved to Denon X2700H, and everything is working perfect. My primary source is 4K firestick and am using TV as dumb display panel. Here is the current setup..


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Nice set up. It’s sad to see that you are using firestick in an avr set up. I got rid of it within 1 hour of usage and it’s the worst device I have ever experienced in my chain. Audio is very much compressed and defeats the purpose of using an avr. If budget permits look at Apple TV or shield if local playback is important.
 
First normal flipkart self installation then I called Mi customer care in new city and gave them new address. They came next day and installed.
I thought they only do ONE TIME free INSTALL service. Did you have to pay them or make special request and under what CONDITIONS?

Did you move the TV to diff city or what? I am confused by this 2 CITY Service? Do clarify if im missing part of the story here.
 
Nice set up. It’s sad to see that you are using firestick in an avr set up. I got rid of it within 1 hour of usage and it’s the worst device I have ever experienced in my chain. Audio is very much compressed and defeats the purpose of using an avr. If budget permits look at Apple TV or shield if local playback is important.
Will it make any difference in case majority of the content we watch is over netflix, prime video, hotstar?
 
Will it make any difference in case majority of the content we watch is over netflix, prime video, hotstar?
Yeah it will. Firestick does not belong in an avr set up. Dynamics in sound stage is very poor in the firestick. When I tested it in my set up I had to use -10 to -15 db to get the same level of volume that I get in a Bluray player or shield or Ps4 at -25db. Even then it felt compressed. I am sorry to say that firestick is garbage in an avr set up.
 
Yeah it will. Firestick does not belong in an avr set up. Dynamics in sound stage is very poor in the firestick. When I tested it in my set up I had to use -10 to -15 db to get the same level of volume that I get in a Bluray player or shield or Ps4 at -25db. Even then it felt compressed. I am sorry to say that firestick is garbage in an avr set up.
Firestick outputs digital audio, and digital audio should sound the same unless some transcode is happening. There will only be a difference if you play HD audio(like Dolby TrueHD) which firestick can't handle. Everything else will be bitstreamed to the AVR.

Netflix/Prime etc only use Dolby Digital Plus, which will be bitstreamed from firestick. You should check if the settings were correct and it was getting bitstreamed or not.
 
Firestick outputs digital audio, and digital audio should sound the same unless some transcode is happening. There will only be a difference if you play HD audio(like Dolby TrueHD) which firestick can't handle. Everything else will be bitstreamed to the AVR.

Netflix/Prime etc only use Dolby Digital Plus, which will be bitstreamed from firestick.
By theory you are right but practically No that’s not how audio works in certain cases. For example take bitstream. A 5k Bluray player also can bitstream compared to a blu ray player like oppo that costs 1 lakh and the decoding is done by the avr. But people who have all compared it side by side can assure you the difference in soundstage is huge between a 5k blu ray player and oppo. I am also stating the same after doing side by side comparisons with Bluray player,ps4. Let firestick output digital audio the same way shield or any other devices. The output is just not the same. If you can test and confirm I am all ears. Also the OTT performance was better in my ps4,Bluray player compared to shield. Another fm recently sold his shield since his Xbox was better for OTT. In an avr set up firestick is just not meant to be. Sorry Mi owners didn’t mean to de rail the thread. Just suggested the other fm based on my experience
 
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I thought they only do ONE TIME free INSTALL service. Did you have to pay them or make special request and under what CONDITIONS?

Did you move the TV to diff city or what? I am confused by this 2 CITY Service? Do clarify if im missing part of the story here.
Obviously they will take money
 
Yeah it will. Firestick does not belong in an avr set up. Dynamics in sound stage is very poor in the firestick. When I tested it in my set up I had to use -10 to -15 db to get the same level of volume that I get in a Bluray player or shield or Ps4 at -25db. Even then it felt compressed. I am sorry to say that firestick is garbage in an avr set up.
+1.
In my experience even Mi TV sounds much better than Firestick 4K.
 
By theory you are right but practically No that’s not how audio works in certain cases. For example take bitstream. A 5k Bluray player also can bitstream compared to a blu ray player like oppo that costs 1 lakh and the decoding is done by the avr. But people who have all compared it side by side can assure you the difference in soundstage is huge between a 5k blu ray player and oppo. I am also stating the same after doing side by side comparisons with Bluray player,ps4. Let firestick output digital audio the same way shield or any other devices. The output is just not the same. If you can test and confirm I am all ears. Also the OTT performance was better in my ps4,Bluray player compared to shield. Another fm recently sold his shield since his Xbox was better for OTT. In an avr set up firestick is just not meant to be. Sorry Mi owners didn’t mean to de rail the thread. Just suggested the other fm based on my experience
In that case this means that there is an issue with the app, perhaps a bug. Bitstream should sound exactly the same. If it doesn't sound the same, it's a software bug or misconfiguration. Component quality has nothing to do with digital audio or video.

And if firestick sounds bad, Nvidia shield will too since both use the same android apps. This is why I'm actually considering buying the Apple TV 4k over the shield, as some software things are just way better in tvOS like refresh rate switching and colour gamut handling.
 
In that case this means that there is an issue with the app, perhaps a bug. Bitstream should sound exactly the same. If it doesn't sound the same, it's a software bug or misconfiguration. Component quality has nothing to do with digital audio or video.

And if firestick sounds bad, Nvidia shield will too since both use the same android apps. This is why I'm actually considering buying the Apple TV 4k over the shield, as some software things are just way better in tvOS like refresh rate switching and colour gamut handling.
Also calibration using iphone is lit
 
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