ChefDude

You've spent a ton of money on a nice tv, a/v amplifier and speakers.

Switch off Dynamic Range Control in the audio parameters on your amp and PS3.

your blu-rays sound better and you get less "stop messing with the tv" comments from your other half too because you're convinced something's wrong.

Page fifty ****ing seven in the manaul: DRC - switch this on to completely monkey with the sound of your £15 blu-ray.

<rant />
thanks for listening


and, just to stay on form, when can we order iphone4 through O2 then? eh?

ALi-B

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Ahh, like so many "features" on AV amps and TVs, most just make it worse in a attempt to mask the inferiorities of using tiny satelite speakers or the built in speakers on a TV.

SRS WOW=OFF
SRS TruBass=OFF
Dynamic Bass =OFF
Virtual Surround=OFF
Dolby 3D=OFF (or Virtual Dolby)
Auto Volume=OFF (OK for loud adverts, but really messes it up for films and music)
Night Mode = OFF (still not worked out what it does)

Obviously, this assume that a) the speakers used are actually of a size capeable of producing a wide frequenceny range, and b) the amp has a decent graphic equalizer. Without both, you're screwed; may as wear earmuffs.

IMHO, of course

ChefDude

i probably have all that srs stuff, but it must be acronymised as something else.

night mode = neighbour friendly low/limited bass (LRF)

ALi-B

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Apart from it doesn't seem to work on my amp

Maybe it because the subwoofer is set pretty quiet anyway (front speakers are proper full range floorstanders, so they produce most of the bass).

ChefDude

it's probably moot on your system then

night mode only works on the .1 channel where bass gets routed to when your speakers are set to 'small' - which mine are.

yours are 'large' so the full frequency range is sent to them and I guess night mode doesn't bother to restrict low frequency on every other channel.

this stuff should be easier to set up, sheesh - i just wanna watch the damn film lol

Westwood2006

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Most people can't tell the difference between vinyl, CD's and MP3s... I know some people who can't see differences between SD & HD TV's!

ChefDude

there are some really well encoded DVDs, like Firefly, that look good upscaled to HD and there are some appallingly coded/transferred blu rays you wish you'd just bought the DVD.

if you don't calibrate your tv though, i guess it doesn't really matter lol

My dad has the sharpness so way up that everyone moving on the screen has a little ghost running after them lol. Makes feature films, like Gladiator, look like an episode of Eastenders

StickyMicky

Some of the older Samsung Plasmas (mine included) have/had some kind of gay dynamic contrast thingybob that was utterly horrible, causing dark scenes to get "boosted" in murky black crap, while at the same time flicking on the screen, this flicker was noticiable, and could happen once or mutiple times, depending on the scene, and the TVs inability to decide if it was going to be switched on or not

I had to actually go into the service menu and disable it with a hex code type edit, as the customer is not allowed to disable it from the usual menus, god only knows why?

I assume they have tweaked/removed the feature now, as it was utterly gash.

StickyMicky

We leave this on, as you say, great for adverts, any decent film we will be watching through the X360 anyway, which is hooked up to the separate surround sound system, so the TV setting makes no difference

hughes741

anyone got any tips of how to setup my surround system. ive got an onkyo amp with a set of mordaunt short alumni 5.1 speakers?

Westwood2006

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Here

Hanley

ChefDude

funny as westwoods link was, it wasn't very helpful lol

My first stop would be avforums.com

corradoboy

If it's a half decent Onkyo amp then it might have auto set-up. Just wire up the speakers, select auto set-up in the menu and listen to all the silly whoop-whoop noises whilst it sets speaker size, placement, polarity, distance and graphic equaliser settings. Then pop a DVD/BD in and enjoy.

Jamz3k

On my Pioneer Reciever this is called Midnight Mode and is very effective as it makes the difference between the quietest and loudest sounds in a movie narrower, so you can have it at lower volume whilst still hearing vocals without having the house rattle appart when there is an explosion.

Jamz3k

I use a Mordaunt Short Sound pressure meter and test disc to get it right then screw about with it until i get the sound *I* like. Auto setups are pretty crap.

dunx

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Where's the fun in that ?

dunx currently at Defcon 7.3 and rising....

Jamz3k

None at all! My Monitor Audio RSW12 is only being tickled in my living room at the moment, i need a detached house!

hughes741

did you get it with your system or did you buy it seperate? have tried google but cant find anywhere to buy it from

Jamz3k

I used to be the deputy Manager of one of the Richer Sounds branches so I got a few toys from the Audio companies.

it looks almost exactly like this


If i'm being honest, I wouldn't miss it if i didn't have it but its looks good if i'm flashing stuff around like this whilst setting up someones home cinema system.