TheGreatMido
Novice Member
Hi! I recently invested in a 5.1.4 speaker setup with the Denon AVC-X3700H and a mixture of Oberon speakers, including the Vokal for centre. I've been busy setting up and calibrating but now that my audio tests have begun in earnest I've noticed that the centre speaker is only recruited under very specific circumstances.
I've tried a variety of video games across multiple consoles (all of which have correctly set audio, as far as I know) as well as Netflix shows and some music via the HEOS app and the only way I've been able to force centre audio is with unwanted stereo modes that artificially recruit speakers. Pressing the INFO button shows that the centre is theoretically in play and I can get test tone no problem, I just can't get my consoles to activate it.
I've tried various modes I would actually want to use, including Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround and uncompressed 5.1, and nothing's working; I'm only getting stereo dialogue and other sound aspects via the front speakers (and sound from all others, including the four heights). This can't be right, surely? I was under the impression that the centre speaker is supposed to be doing a lot of the work, particularly with dialogue.
I'm really hoping there's a setting I'm overlooking somewhere as it doesn't seem like there's a fault given that I can get the speaker to kick in sometimes, and that the fronts are clearly behaving like they think they need to to cover for an absent centre. Any suggestions would be much appreciated please as currently the soundscape feels like it has a giant hole in it!
I've tried a variety of video games across multiple consoles (all of which have correctly set audio, as far as I know) as well as Netflix shows and some music via the HEOS app and the only way I've been able to force centre audio is with unwanted stereo modes that artificially recruit speakers. Pressing the INFO button shows that the centre is theoretically in play and I can get test tone no problem, I just can't get my consoles to activate it.
I've tried various modes I would actually want to use, including Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround and uncompressed 5.1, and nothing's working; I'm only getting stereo dialogue and other sound aspects via the front speakers (and sound from all others, including the four heights). This can't be right, surely? I was under the impression that the centre speaker is supposed to be doing a lot of the work, particularly with dialogue.
I'm really hoping there's a setting I'm overlooking somewhere as it doesn't seem like there's a fault given that I can get the speaker to kick in sometimes, and that the fronts are clearly behaving like they think they need to to cover for an absent centre. Any suggestions would be much appreciated please as currently the soundscape feels like it has a giant hole in it!