what settings will help with very low dialog and VERY loud music/background/fx - Blu-ray Forum

gardengirl1331 · 01-06-2022, 09:08 PM

I'm not sure where else to post this since it's about sound, but without us having a surround sound system. (and please I'm very new to this and don't understand technical stuff much, although my husband is a musician so he might be able to help a bit. So go easy on me.)

We've been having issues with VERY loud music, background noises, sound fx etc and having to float the remote to hear the dialog, then back again when an action scene happens, just about giving us both a heart attack. (and yes for me with my bad health I do have slight hearing issues- oddly for my age it's mid-range I struggle with) So far the problem got worse when we went to blu ray, and now we very recently moved to 4k we were hoping maybe it would improve a bit and it hasn't. The worst offender so far seems to be the Kingsman Secret Service blu ray. I had to float the remote from 40/42 for the voices down to 17/18 for the action scenes! I really don't want to have to do this for every loud action movie.

Here's what we have, and it's not exact as I know nothing about this stuff:
TV is Sony x90j (probably doesn't matter but it's 65") we sit about 15' from the screen- when we did the set up my husband almost returned it that day after having it calibrate itself for our room and distance, holy hell it sounded like crap! Like REALLY bad! We turned that off (so much for tech thinking it's smarter than us) and just set it up like normal and it was fine after that, thankfully!) We normally don't use extra sound, just the TV I'd say 80% of the time, but for some movies we like to add a bit of bass through our stereo/speakers that we have for the turntable, which is an old 1980's Sony receiver and two Klipsch speakers from the 90's. We had to buy some sort of adapter to hook it up since it doesn't have the same outputs our old 1080 TV had, but it works well for what we want it for. The player is a Sony x800M2. We also have some kind of dumb, but good, LG blu ray player hooked up too but haven't used it much since buying the 4k setup, it's kept for a backup.

I tried setting the TV to the voice zoom max but my husband hates how it makes it sound, but he agreed to put it to 4, even though it still bugs him a bit. It doesn't help at all. We messed around a little bit with the equalizer, especially the 125 I think, and it didn't seem to do much to help. On the player it's set to digital audio output to auto, everything else is off, it's set to 48kHz, and the downmix is stereo.

Is there anything else we can do to fix this without having to buy a whole surround sound system?

01-06-2022, 09:08 PM	#1
gardengirl1331 Special Member Member since:Jan 2022 Location:US 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:- Trading Score:34	what settings will help with very low dialog and VERY loud music/background/fx I'm not sure where else to post this since it's about sound, but without us having a surround sound system. (and please I'm very new to this and don't understand technical stuff much, although my husband is a musician so he might be able to help a bit. So go easy on me.) We've been having issues with VERY loud music, background noises, sound fx etc and having to float the remote to hear the dialog, then back again when an action scene happens, just about giving us both a heart attack. (and yes for me with my bad health I do have slight hearing issues- oddly for my age it's mid-range I struggle with) So far the problem got worse when we went to blu ray, and now we very recently moved to 4k we were hoping maybe it would improve a bit and it hasn't. The worst offender so far seems to be the Kingsman Secret Service blu ray. I had to float the remote from 40/42 for the voices down to 17/18 for the action scenes! I really don't want to have to do this for every loud action movie. Here's what we have, and it's not exact as I know nothing about this stuff: TV is Sony x90j (probably doesn't matter but it's 65") we sit about 15' from the screen- when we did the set up my husband almost returned it that day after having it calibrate itself for our room and distance, holy hell it sounded like crap! Like REALLY bad! We turned that off (so much for tech thinking it's smarter than us) and just set it up like normal and it was fine after that, thankfully!) We normally don't use extra sound, just the TV I'd say 80% of the time, but for some movies we like to add a bit of bass through our stereo/speakers that we have for the turntable, which is an old 1980's Sony receiver and two Klipsch speakers from the 90's. We had to buy some sort of adapter to hook it up since it doesn't have the same outputs our old 1080 TV had, but it works well for what we want it for. The player is a Sony x800M2. We also have some kind of dumb, but good, LG blu ray player hooked up too but haven't used it much since buying the 4k setup, it's kept for a backup. I tried setting the TV to the voice zoom max but my husband hates how it makes it sound, but he agreed to put it to 4, even though it still bugs him a bit. It doesn't help at all. We messed around a little bit with the equalizer, especially the 125 I think, and it didn't seem to do much to help. On the player it's set to digital audio output to auto, everything else is off, it's set to 48kHz, and the downmix is stereo. Is there anything else we can do to fix this without having to buy a whole surround sound system?

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