OK, the title is poorly worded. Sorry. What I mean is I’m watching a movie right now. When they’re speaking, I have to turn the volume up,but as soon as there’s any sort of special effect sound I pretty much go deaf because it is so loud. For the record the movie I’m watching is beauty and the beast put out in 2017 with Emma Watson. Speaking I have to set the volume to approximately 45 out of 100 on my home theater. As soon as they start singing, it is so damn loud it’s insane. Why would they do this and how do I fix the problem?

I’m using a Roku for Disney plus and a Denon receiver AVR-E400. I’ve tried going into the settings for Audyssey and strong dynamic volume to medium but that only helps a little bit. Maximum is a possibility, but then the audio doesn’t even sound correct it’s like I don’t know how to explain it, but it sounds strange at that point.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem because the dynamic range that I’m having is insane. I’m glad I live in my own house an apartment otherwise the neighbors would be pissed off at me.

Edit: I have a 5.1 system

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    7·
    21 hours ago

    It’s optimized for people with 90" televisions and $5000 surround sound systems. I forget how I did it, but I turned off some surround sound setting on my Roku and it helped a lot.

    • andrewta@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      21 hours ago

      Probably true.

      I spent over $600 on just the receiver and then some more in the 5 speakers plus the subwoofer. Yeah I’ve spent quite a bit.

      Sad that I still can’t fix this.

      • PostiveNoise@kbin.melroy.org
        12·
        20 hours ago

        Since you have 5 speakers, one of them should be the center speaker, which is focused on dialog. Some Denon receivers have a ‘dialog level adjust’ or ‘center level adjust’ setting that you can turn on and then turn up the dialog level. If you don’t have that setting the solution is to try to turn up the center speaker (or turn down all the other speakers) some way, such as using a mixer or some such (may require some research for specifics).

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 hours ago

        I have a sound bar/subwoofer combo that I got for free from work lol it sounds great now though! I think it had to do with turning off 5.1 surround which I think was in the advanced sound settings