Dolby Digital DVD's and Trouble with Dialogue - Help PLEASE?

[shokhead]

Night mode off and it happens,hard to hear so just bumb up the center level. EQ an stuff in setup menu.

[MCF]

Boosting the gain to the center is the first thing I tried...no help as it also boosts the other sounds the center produces..I believe it's the other sounds coming out of the center that are muddying up the dialogue.....turning night mode on medium helps if anything..but takes away from some of the movie affects...

[hershon]

A few thoughts. Just for the hell of it, go back to your original settings but switch the speaker setup to Large instead of Small. This might eliminate the problem.

What movie(s) do you have the problem with? Maybe its one specific not the whole lot. If it is everything, then try increasing the volume/DB level on the speakers that give give the majority of the dialogue. Also check your EQ's- bass & treble.

On my Denon receiver for instance when I'm watching TV off the cable, I have to put all the speakers on 4 DB's instead of 0 as it sounds better which makes no sense. The same setting for DVD's/CD's, messes up the sound.

Also check you DVD playter's settings as well as your receivers settings.

Boosting the gain to the center is the first thing I tried...no help as it also boosts the other sounds the center produces..I believe it's the other sounds coming out of the center that are muddying up the dialogue.....turning night mode on medium helps if anything..but takes away from some of the movie affects...

[MCF]

Master and Commander is giving me a lot of problems, also Collateral with Tom Cruise gives me some problems. I have the EQ set to +2 for treble and +4 for bass, but I going to set it to Tone Out to flatten out the treble and bass. The only settings the DVD player allows when you use an optical cable is whether or not dolby digital is enabled, which I have.

A few thoughts. Just for the hell of it, go back to your original settings but switch the speaker setup to Large instead of Small. This might eliminate the problem.

What movie(s) do you have the problem with? Maybe its one specific not the whole lot. If it is everything, then try increasing the volume/DB level on the speakers that give give the majority of the dialogue. Also check your EQ's- bass & treble.

On my Denon receiver for instance when I'm watching TV off the cable, I have to put all the speakers on 4 DB's instead of 0 as it sounds better which makes no sense. The same setting for DVD's/CD's, messes up the sound.

Also check you DVD playter's settings as well as your receivers settings.

[shokhead]

Maybe reset everything. If you have a sub,all speakers set to small,master volume at 0 and set each speaker set between 75 and 80db. EQ and night mode and all that stuff off.

[hershon]

Again, whhoever suggested to rent Master & Commander (I DVD shrinked my copy) thanks a million. On my old system, I had similar problems to what you were describing. I then bought a new DVD player & on this one the speaker settings were set on large. This was my old JVC DVD/receiver combination. I connected the new DVD player (HK 31) by optic cable to my (old) JVC DVD/receiver. With the controls on the DVD set to large speaker, the dialogue was fine on the JVC receiver. As I said, when I used the built in DVD player, I had similar problems to what you're describing. How old is your DVD player?

Master and Commander is giving me a lot of problems, also Collateral with Tom Cruise gives me some problems. I have the EQ set to +2 for treble and +4 for bass, but I going to set it to Tone Out to flatten out the treble and bass. The only settings the DVD player allows when you use an optical cable is whether or not dolby digital is enabled, which I have.

[shokhead]

The reciever is what you set up for the speaker size,the bass management as long as you use the dig out like you are from the player. You would use the bass management in the player for the multi-channel audio through the 6 analogs. I think thats right.