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Movies and Music and Movies and Dialog [message #6406]

Tue, 14 February 2006 23:39

lon
Messages: 760
Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

I have such a spaghetti nest of wiring and black boxes on
the dvd and stereo stuff I'm afraid to take it apart.

But one thing I've noticed: the dialog played through
the dvd to a noise suppression box (midnight theater)
and into a Yamaha RP U100 receiver then out to my
MLTL speaks seems to get lost in a cascade of 'mood
music' which is part of the, inthis case, tv show called
Star Trek Enterprise.

I have turned off the DSP effects on the Yam and am using\the 10/1 setting on the noise supression box. The box keeps volumes
normalized so as not to freak out my neighbors. Hence the
term midnight theater which is no incorporated into home
theater 5:1 amps as a feature.

How would plugging the dvd player directly into the Yam
change things? or is it just a poor recording job by
Paramount to get those surround sound and dolby effects?

Maybe this should be in Home Theater (?)

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Re: Movies and Music and Movies and Dialog [message #6408 is a reply to message #6406]

Wed, 15 February 2006 08:44

Wayne Parham
Messages: 18778
Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

So you're getting some bleedthrough from another source? Is that what you're saying? If so, can you identify the equipment that's generating the unwanted bleedthrough signal (dish, cable, etc.)?

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Re: Movies and Music and Movies and Dialog [message #6411 is a reply to message #6408]

Wed, 15 February 2006 13:39

lon
Messages: 760
Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

No it's just the background music, sound effects and such coming
waaay forward so as to drown out the dialog. This effect goes through
all these tv dvds of Star Trek series. If the background mood music
cuts out from a scene change or the 'engine noise' disappears from
some other cut, the dialog is heard normally.

I would think this problem would normally be associated with a
subwoofer. There is a subwoofer out on my Yamaha but it is
not in use. I've never noticed such a problem from the old
days of running vhs tape nor on radio/tuner or audio stream
from line in etc.

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Re: Movies and Music and Movies and Dialog [message #6413 is a reply to message #6411]

Wed, 15 February 2006 14:06

Wayne Parham
Messages: 18778
Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

Now I understand what you mean. I've experienced this too, but always when viewing a film (heavily) mixed for 5.1 channel on a two-channel system. It irritates me when a DVD is made without a two-channel option if the 5.1 option sounds bad using only two channels.

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