Hi all,
Just wanted to put this out in the "cloud" but I think I finally found out the reason why sometimes my z5500 gives me bad sound levels when playing dvds.
For the past couple of years, I've noticed that when I play certain dvds, the leveling of the audio on certain dvds were off. The voice would be to soft while at the same time, the "crashes and booms" would be too loud. When I turned up the volume to hear voices, the booms and the subs would be unbearable. When I turned down the volume so I don't get deaf from the "crashs and booms", I wouldn't hear what the actors were saying.
While the Z5500 has level settings to change the "surround volumes", the bass, etc. The audio was still way off that these settings did not help.
When I watched cable tv with dobly5.1, the sound was fine. Also, when I had my old toshiba hddvd player, the z5500 also worked flawlessly. In addition, when I play games on the ps3, there weren't any issues.
It wasn't until yesterday when trying to make a backup of "watchmen" and I couldn't because of the copy protection that I started to think there might be a correlation between copyrighted dvds and bad sound.
Watchmen was a movie that sounded really bad on my z5500. Thinking back, I noticed how bad all the sounds were from dvds with copy protection was (star wars 3).. I think it might be ripguard. All the dvds that I could make backup from were fine -- they sounded great. Also, all the movies that I streamed from my computer using "ps3 media server" were fine.
Just to test my theory a little bit more, I download anydvd, backuped watchmen (as an .iso file) and streamed the movie. The sound was fine.
So, just to "put it out there", if you have a ps3 connected via optic out to a z5500 and you are having bad "levels", it could be because of the copyrighted discs you are playing. Oh, I done a lot of research about what settings I am suppose to use, so I'm 99% sure that my ps3 settings are good.
That is all
Just wanted to put this out in the "cloud" but I think I finally found out the reason why sometimes my z5500 gives me bad sound levels when playing dvds.
For the past couple of years, I've noticed that when I play certain dvds, the leveling of the audio on certain dvds were off. The voice would be to soft while at the same time, the "crashes and booms" would be too loud. When I turned up the volume to hear voices, the booms and the subs would be unbearable. When I turned down the volume so I don't get deaf from the "crashs and booms", I wouldn't hear what the actors were saying.
While the Z5500 has level settings to change the "surround volumes", the bass, etc. The audio was still way off that these settings did not help.
When I watched cable tv with dobly5.1, the sound was fine. Also, when I had my old toshiba hddvd player, the z5500 also worked flawlessly. In addition, when I play games on the ps3, there weren't any issues.
It wasn't until yesterday when trying to make a backup of "watchmen" and I couldn't because of the copy protection that I started to think there might be a correlation between copyrighted dvds and bad sound.
Watchmen was a movie that sounded really bad on my z5500. Thinking back, I noticed how bad all the sounds were from dvds with copy protection was (star wars 3).. I think it might be ripguard. All the dvds that I could make backup from were fine -- they sounded great. Also, all the movies that I streamed from my computer using "ps3 media server" were fine.
Just to test my theory a little bit more, I download anydvd, backuped watchmen (as an .iso file) and streamed the movie. The sound was fine.
So, just to "put it out there", if you have a ps3 connected via optic out to a z5500 and you are having bad "levels", it could be because of the copyrighted discs you are playing. Oh, I done a lot of research about what settings I am suppose to use, so I'm 99% sure that my ps3 settings are good.
That is all
