I have these:
Yamaha NS51 Series 5.1 Channel Speaker Package
Yamaha RXV385B 5.1-Channel RX-V385 AV Receiver
Although I usually watch Blu-Rays with lossless audio, I sometimes struggle to understand the dialogue. I know some movies simply have bad sound, but I want to be sure there's nothing I can do to make it as good as possible.
Someone else set it up, here are the settings:
Some people say the fronts should be set to small, some say it should be large. Some people say it should be small if I have a subwoofer, which I do, unless they're full range speakers. Are mine full range? And some people say extra bass should be off, would that help? Remember, all I really care about it being able to understand the dialogue. The person who installed it did that thing where he used a microphone to calibrate the speakers, would changing those settings affect that?
Although there is another issue I don't care about that much, but might as well ask. The sound volume is often inconsistent. I have to turn the volume up for dialogue and then down again for action scenes. Would it help to make the volume of all speakers equal? I assume that would affect the settings that were calibrated, right? I heard DRC would make the volume consistent, but would also reduce the sound quality, is that right?
Also, just confirming, the setting on my Blu-Ray player should be bitstream instead of PCM, right?
Yamaha NS51 Series 5.1 Channel Speaker Package
Yamaha RXV385B 5.1-Channel RX-V385 AV Receiver
Although I usually watch Blu-Rays with lossless audio, I sometimes struggle to understand the dialogue. I know some movies simply have bad sound, but I want to be sure there's nothing I can do to make it as good as possible.
Someone else set it up, here are the settings:
Some people say the fronts should be set to small, some say it should be large. Some people say it should be small if I have a subwoofer, which I do, unless they're full range speakers. Are mine full range? And some people say extra bass should be off, would that help? Remember, all I really care about it being able to understand the dialogue. The person who installed it did that thing where he used a microphone to calibrate the speakers, would changing those settings affect that?
Although there is another issue I don't care about that much, but might as well ask. The sound volume is often inconsistent. I have to turn the volume up for dialogue and then down again for action scenes. Would it help to make the volume of all speakers equal? I assume that would affect the settings that were calibrated, right? I heard DRC would make the volume consistent, but would also reduce the sound quality, is that right?
Also, just confirming, the setting on my Blu-Ray player should be bitstream instead of PCM, right?