Low centre channel volume

[Simplayer]

Hello,
I'm having an odd problem. This happens on and off, but usually just to dolby digital tracks. When I go to play a movie, sometimes the sound is low from the centre channel and a bit muffled sounding.

I'm using a ps3 to play the dvds/bds and a sony hdmi receiver (it can accept and deal with a 5.1 pcm signal).

I've found one solution to the problem, but it's a bit of a pain. I can go to the bd/dvd settings and re-enter that the ps3 should send out audio through hdmi as pcm and I get the centre channel back to normal.

Does anyone know why this happens?

[Ectoplasm]

Do a search for your player on www.avsforum.com . There is likely an entire owners thread dedicated to your receiver.

[Simplayer]

I'm not having much luck there.

It's not like I don't get the centre channel at all. It works most of the time, just sometimes it's low and muffled sounding.

Just a bit of PITA sometimes.

[Pelican170]

Maybe its the movie itself?

[Lucy Diamond]

Can you control individual volume/ gain for each of your speakers on your receiver???

Go into your menu and boost your center if you can.

Alot of times if a receiver has an auto calibration function, the CPU misses by a couple of beats, because it doesn't hear like you do.

I don't know if that's even the case with you...I'm just spit balling, but that may help. Try and check individual speaker settings if you can.

[brett_day]

what receiver do you have?

[mr peepers]

i actually kind of get the same thing as you do. its only during certain movies that the center channel holding almost all of the dialogue is pecurilarily low.

i was watching saw 2 last night and noticed it a lot during that movie.

i have a pretty legit setup for my taste, and i've even got the center channel boosted a couple dB. But every once in awhile i'll stumble upon a movie that has really low volume in the center channel.

my guess is its just the movie soundtrack.

eh

[Simplayer]

Originally Posted by Lucy Diamond

Can you control individual volume/ gain for each of your speakers on your receiver???

Go into your menu and boost your center if you can.

Alot of times if a receiver has an auto calibration function, the CPU misses by a couple of beats, because it doesn't hear like you do.

I don't know if that's even the case with you...I'm just spit balling, but that may help. Try and check individual speaker settings if you can.

Well, the problem is that it only happens sometimes. So if I boost up the centre channel on the receiver it'll be really loud when everything's working properly.

I have the receiver with the Sony HTSF2000 HTiB, the STR KS2000 I believe.

And the centre channel being mastered low probably isn't it, because I can temporarily fix the problem. I'm just trying to figure out a permanent solution.