Help with audio questions

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Hi!

Got no one in my circuit of friends that can help me with my issues, so I'm trying my luck here.

I lately acquired a new receiver after my old one met with an accident at a party. I bought a Denon AVR-1910. From before I got some old Infinity speakers (2 front, 2 rear and one center). Got relatively new Sony BD player (updated).

Now, I am hopeless when it comes to manuals (which I also managed to misplace) and know next to nothing about how to setup the best audio option with what I have. I only watch Blu-Ray and occasionally listen to music, never tv and dvd.

Problem: The audio sound quality/volume differs extremely from movie to movie. Example; Twilight and Slumdog Millionaire BR have high volume and sounds great. V for Vendetta, 2001: A Space Odyssey and MANY more have extremely low sound. I've tried all the DEFAULT sound options and the one that sounds best is -always- 7ch Stereo DVD, whatever that is.

I usually watch a movie on about -20db, as I get concerned if I push it higher (even if the sound is too low) as I managed to destroy the first receiver I got trying to attack the problem myself. The hand control was a little sensitive so when I accidentally pushed it to -7db or something, it went dead. Got a new one, but I don't want it to happen again. Don't know what happened in the first place.

Any suggestions about what I should do? Can a newbie such as me manage to fix this without to much effort (I don't like experimenting with things I don't know anything about). I do appreciate great sound to go with the near 300 BR I have acquired in the last 18 months.

Took some pictures of the setup and cables etc;

http://home.pusen.org/~andre/pics/