I have a TSR-7850 AVR with a DISH Hopper 3 attached to it via HDMI. I have a 5.1 speaker configuration. I usually use the "Standard" Yamaha DSP setting for most things and normally everything sounds great.
Here is the issue...In certain situations, I experience very low volume during live Dolby 5.1 broadcasts but in the same broadcast everything comes through fine. For example, I was watching the NBA All-Star game on TBS last night and there was live halftime entertainment. The volume of it was much lower than the main announcers during the game. Also, any player that was mic'd up, you could barely hear him when he talked. The volume diffference was also very obvious for the Super Bowl halftime show. If I turn on 7 channel stereo the volumes are more equal. If I disable Dolby audio output on the DISH Hopper, the AVR then gets a PCM 2 channel audio signal and the volumes are much more equal. But who wants 2 channel audio processed into phony 5.1 when true 5.1 is available?
I have discovered that these lower volume audio signals are not coming from the center channel speaker and just being output to the front L and R speakers. This tells me that the producers of the broadcast are mixing these other signals differently than the main (eg. announcers) signal. Also, contributing to the issue was that I had the Dialog Level option set to +3, which raises the center channel signal quite a bit. I lowered it to 0 and things seemed a bit more equal.
Anyone else with a similar setup experience this or have any comments?
Thanks in advance!
Here is the issue...In certain situations, I experience very low volume during live Dolby 5.1 broadcasts but in the same broadcast everything comes through fine. For example, I was watching the NBA All-Star game on TBS last night and there was live halftime entertainment. The volume of it was much lower than the main announcers during the game. Also, any player that was mic'd up, you could barely hear him when he talked. The volume diffference was also very obvious for the Super Bowl halftime show. If I turn on 7 channel stereo the volumes are more equal. If I disable Dolby audio output on the DISH Hopper, the AVR then gets a PCM 2 channel audio signal and the volumes are much more equal. But who wants 2 channel audio processed into phony 5.1 when true 5.1 is available?
I have discovered that these lower volume audio signals are not coming from the center channel speaker and just being output to the front L and R speakers. This tells me that the producers of the broadcast are mixing these other signals differently than the main (eg. announcers) signal. Also, contributing to the issue was that I had the Dialog Level option set to +3, which raises the center channel signal quite a bit. I lowered it to 0 and things seemed a bit more equal.
Anyone else with a similar setup experience this or have any comments?
Thanks in advance!
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