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Curt Palme
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:31 pm Post subject: Shifting in the soundstage between channels? |
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Here's a question I've never seen posted. I've been running my theater almost nightly now for a couple of months, and have recently noticed quite a change in the soundstage between HD channels. Specifically, I've heard music and dialogue shift to the left and right of center, and some speech seems to shift as well.
Has anyone else noticed this? I change channels, and the next station seems to be fine, go back to what I was watching, and it's like someone turned the balance control left or right. Drives me nuts.
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jeffslife
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When you change channels is the sound format the same ? Is one channel Just dolby digital and another channel Digital theatre surround master, For example ? There are so many different sound formats. I would use the AVR and force it to the same format on each channel first and see if it sounds the same.
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Nashou66
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MrBlonde83
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I've noticed this as well with DirecTV and when I went back to cable. On both the low end Denon and when I upgraded to a midrange Onkyo 818 receiver, so its some way they encode their content, its not my equipment. I hear dialog in the LCR, and sometimes in the surround speakers. I look at the receiver and it is in Dolby digital 5.1... Don't have this issue with blu ray or even movie files playing from my macbook pro through SPDIF. Maybe its in the way they compress their audio in the stream?
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AnalogRocks
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I've watched movies where they do the intentionally. If they have a character screen right they shift the dialog to the right. Screen left too.
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MrBlonde83
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Well that is normal to shift dialog to move with the actors on screen, they've been doing that since they started the LCR format in theaters in the 50s I believe. It started being popular with CinemaScope format. But what he's talking about (I think) is just sound from the center bleeding into the left and right channels... and in my experience, the surround channels. Which can be annoying having dialog in your left and right ears. Especially with annoying overly loud commercials. However, I don't think the audio shifted completely to different speakers. I think that is something different entirely maybe.
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