Official dialnorm value thread

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Official dialnorm value thread

11-01-2009, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by BIslander

Something is amiss here. You can't have dialnorm offsets that are both positive and negative. Decoders only lower volume based on dialnorm. They never increase it. Some receivers report offsets in negative numbers, the amount the decoder lowered the overall volume so that average dialog is output at -31dBFS. Others report positive numbers. I believe some Onkyos actually undo the reduction done by the decoder and report the amount the AVR increased the volume to compensate for the amouint the decoder decreased.

Yep, my onkyo boost dialnorm tracks by 4db.

Last edited by saprano; 11-01-2009 at 05:24 PM.

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