Daveyboy1985
Established Member
Hello all.
I have a Denon X2300w which I've recently bought.
I've done the 8 point Audyssey calibration and it set it all up fine.
I turned off audyssey dynamic EQ as this was just too loud for me as boosed all the surrounds and bass and where I live I cannot have sound too high or bassy.
I did turn on Dynamic Volume as reading on the forums and information about it my understanding was that I would help with louder moments and bring all the aound levels to a more equal sound across all speakers.
TV sound is fine and DVD playback is ok but have to increase the dialogue enhancer to +5 or +6 for dolby digital.
My issue as it was on a previous system is blu ray films as I know the sound on those are very dynamic so surround and fronts can give loud explosions where as the speech will be much lower.
I have dynamic volume set to medium and with this on i listen at -46 to - 50db.
Now with this setting the front and surround sounds are just about right but centre speech volume is still too low so I have to actually boost this to +12 for most blu rays at this volume and then everything sounds ok, the speech I can now easily hear and the effects are all balanced and not too loud.
I messed around then with the different settings between light medium and heavy on Dynamic Volume but it doesn't seem to change anything. Leaving at the volume I've set it all at (-48db and +12db for dialogue enhancer), changing from light to heavy I can not hear any difference at all. I was under the impression that it would maybe boost the speech and lower the effects so they were all roughly the same volume so speech enhancer wouldn't need to be at +12 but as I say I didn't notice any difference so not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong.
I know when I used to have a panasonic HTIB that it had a dolby midnight mode and this seemed much better as turning that off would mean everything was loud and unbalanced but turning on meant I could listen at much lower volumes and be able to hear speech without the effects being overpowering but with audyssey dynamic volume it doesn't seem to be same effect. Is is because DTS sound has a much wider dynamic range that it cannot boost the speech and lower the effects to about the same volume or is this not really what dynamic volume does.
So just really looking to see if it is actually working as intended and if it's something I'm doing wrong.
Thank you.
I have a Denon X2300w which I've recently bought.
I've done the 8 point Audyssey calibration and it set it all up fine.
I turned off audyssey dynamic EQ as this was just too loud for me as boosed all the surrounds and bass and where I live I cannot have sound too high or bassy.
I did turn on Dynamic Volume as reading on the forums and information about it my understanding was that I would help with louder moments and bring all the aound levels to a more equal sound across all speakers.
TV sound is fine and DVD playback is ok but have to increase the dialogue enhancer to +5 or +6 for dolby digital.
My issue as it was on a previous system is blu ray films as I know the sound on those are very dynamic so surround and fronts can give loud explosions where as the speech will be much lower.
I have dynamic volume set to medium and with this on i listen at -46 to - 50db.
Now with this setting the front and surround sounds are just about right but centre speech volume is still too low so I have to actually boost this to +12 for most blu rays at this volume and then everything sounds ok, the speech I can now easily hear and the effects are all balanced and not too loud.
I messed around then with the different settings between light medium and heavy on Dynamic Volume but it doesn't seem to change anything. Leaving at the volume I've set it all at (-48db and +12db for dialogue enhancer), changing from light to heavy I can not hear any difference at all. I was under the impression that it would maybe boost the speech and lower the effects so they were all roughly the same volume so speech enhancer wouldn't need to be at +12 but as I say I didn't notice any difference so not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong.
I know when I used to have a panasonic HTIB that it had a dolby midnight mode and this seemed much better as turning that off would mean everything was loud and unbalanced but turning on meant I could listen at much lower volumes and be able to hear speech without the effects being overpowering but with audyssey dynamic volume it doesn't seem to be same effect. Is is because DTS sound has a much wider dynamic range that it cannot boost the speech and lower the effects to about the same volume or is this not really what dynamic volume does.
So just really looking to see if it is actually working as intended and if it's something I'm doing wrong.
Thank you.