Problem courtesy of WearyAlmond: Why do voices sound far away with my home theater?
I have a Harmon Kardon AVR-325 receiver hooked up to a 5.1 Castle audio speaker system. When I switch the settings on the receiver to any of the given “cinema” modes the voice track of whichever movie I am watching sounds very faint. I know that none of the speakers are blown because when I listen to a movie through one of the “music” modes the voice is much louder however I do experience some crackling. Perhaps my speakers are not connected in the correct way. Any help is appreciated.
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Answer by Lance
It sounds like the center channel speaker is not loud enough or you have the polarity reversed, try increasing the volume on the center channel alone and also try reversing the polarity on the center channel and see if that helps…
Answer by gkk_72
How is the audio hooked up to your system? Through a digital connection? If so, although I do not have a unit like yours I do believe I have experienced the same problems. When you are watching anything that is in dolby digital 5.1 surround sound you need to make sure you only select digital input and nothing else. This will direct the voices to the center channel where they belong.
Music or cinema modes are for creating pseudo surround sound from two channel sources and do not do well when you have a true 5.1 source. When you use one of those choices the center channel information either gets ignored or sent to the left and right front speakers.
Answer by Grumpy Mac
Well – the obvious answer is to NOT use the Cinema modes. Chances are they are trying to do an “Echo” between the center speaker and the left/right so they lower the volume to create an illusion of depth.
All Dolby Digital receivers have a menu setup where you can raise/lower just the center volume as an offset to the main volume control. Find this and bump the volume up a bit before trying the Cinema settings.
But frankly – only Yamaha does a decent job with these Cinema modes and once I found one I liked – I leave it set to this setting all the time. (Sports are one exception – the only time I use the “Stadium” setting is for the Superbowl.)
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