Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Dec 24, 2009 9:07 pm hi guys I was wondering if we are doing something wrong with our sound system. Our system is Yamaha RX- V565 which we had professionally installed. When we watch movies we find it hard to hear the talking, but the music is very loud... so we have to turn the sound down a bit, which makes it difficult to watch. Can anyone suggest something to increase sound of voices, but not music? My DH wonders if it is the location of our chairs in the home theatre at the rear... thanks A thankful person is a happy person. [/color]My hobby design blog: http://aviewondesign.blogspot.com/ Re: Surround sound difficulties in home theatre 2Dec 24, 2009 11:21 pm Annietom hi guys When we watch movies we find it hard to hear the talking, but the music is very loud... so we have to turn the sound down a bit, which makes it difficult to watch. thanks may need to check if center speaker is connected or wired properly [url]ACMA registered cable, Government endorsed Antenna Installer[/url] Re: Surround sound difficulties in home theatre 3Dec 24, 2009 11:55 pm Also try bashing on the "Stereo" button on the remote a couple of times with some noise coming out. Googled the standard remote with that model - it's a *lot* less complex than our older model - but similar concepts by the looks. If a cat (read: DH fiddling ... ) stands on the wrong button ours can drop it's 7.1 down to 2.1; and it sounds like a donkey's butt... - Land registered 27/11/09, settlement 22/01/10 - Currently doing the rounds of display homes. Re: Surround sound difficulties in home theatre 4Dec 25, 2009 7:26 am I hope it didn't always sound that way (being professionally installed and all...). 9 times out of 10 when I see this type of thing - especially with Yamaha AV Receivers - is that it is running in some funky (stupid) DSP/surround mode, or someone has tried to resolve the issue by tweaking the levels of the different speaker channels and in fact made it worse (or a combination of both). 1. Turn off any/all DSP/Surround modes (set it to 'Auto' or No DSP). You want it to play the natural audio straight off the DVD/whatever (as long as it's a native 5.1 digital audio track). This should be how it's set all the time anyway. 2. Make sure the levels of all speaker channels are set to +/- 0 (zero), or at least very close to it (ie. if they are not far off 0 having been 'professionally' set up then you will actually probably want to leave them there). If your speakers are decent and reasonably well matched to each other then these numbers shouldn't be far off each other... Pay attention to what the centre speaker is set to. 3. Like suggested, make sure the centre speaker is connected properly. 4. After confirming the above, what does it sound like? P.S. One customer of mine gave his system way too big a torture test way too early (first night after installing it) and fried the tweeter in his centre speaker. This should be quite obvious though (no tweeter = muffled and only deeper sounds coming from the speaker. No woofer = only high pitched sound, no mid/bass at all...). Re: Surround sound difficulties in home theatre 5Dec 25, 2009 9:37 am hey guys thanks so much for helping me out (on christmas too!!) I will try all these things, well my DH can when he gets home tonight! and yes, it was professionally installed so maybe we are a little over sensitive, but we don't have this problem normally... so it may need a bit of adjusting - well that's what we thought tbh, but didn't know how - so THANKS AGAIN and MERRY CHRISTMAS guys! A thankful person is a happy person. [/color]My hobby design blog: http://aviewondesign.blogspot.com/ Re: Surround sound difficulties in home theatre 6Dec 27, 2009 8:43 am Everything Rodda said.. I also have a yamaha amp, though looking for a yamaha rxv-663 second hand. though my yammie is connected to a power amp for clean power.. and like Rodda mentioned the 'straight' mode works best for me. though there is no harm in trying all the other sound fields.. but in my opinion you do want to hear the movie the way it was intended to be heard. re in 2 channel many people listen in 'pure direct' mode - re no sound decode interferance from avr and only L R speakers are used with no sub. I only listen to cd's this way. just quick questions to get you on your way to better sound.. what speakers are you using for front stage re L C R. This is what I would trry, if they are large speakers I would set all speakers to small, crossover on avr to 80hz, on sub set the crossover to max this will dissable the sub crossover and let your yammie take care of the lfe signals to sub. on sub set volume to 10 o'clock, this is just an estimate but is really tricky to get sub volume correct.. i can tell you how but it is a lot of work without an spl meter, and yes all speakers should be at the same level. and on avr set bass to sub only.. also with your yamaha you probably received a mic for auto calibration I would do this also if you are unsure how just ask here.. but it is also in the manual.. its upto you but everytime I move or change speaker location I always run a auto calibration then make a few adjustments to it.. what you are experiencing is very commion among HT's but in many cases this is due to settings and not speakers, even room treatment has a BIG impact on the way sound is delivered to your ears, listening position. to me in HT there is nothing worse when the action scenes are so LOUD but the dialog is very hard to hear, this is why money/consideration should be spent/thought on centre channel.. also it is very important to angle, if need be, your centre speaker to 'sweet spot' re best listening position. Good luck and merry Christmas to all.. Re: Surround sound difficulties in home theatre 7Dec 30, 2009 9:40 pm Hi guys, I had a very similar problem on many occassions with my Yamaha setup and thought WTF???? Then for some reason it would sort itself out again, then go off again etc etc. Finally after using the internal 'tone test' feature of the amp to hear what each speaker was doing the centre channel did sound weak. I up'd the level and everything seemed fine. Once again it dropped out, only this time I found the culprit. No sooner had the sound dropped out from the centre channel when our darling cat 'Rex' shot out from behind the entertainment unit. A quick inspection found he had dislodged the bannana plugs completely. After installing a couple of anti-cat run through barriers I've never had the problem again. Hope you solve your problem soon as sound makes the movie experience what it's meant to be. 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