Do you have surround speakers? Sorry if this has been covered already - I haven't been following this thread.
On 31-May-07, at 4:54 PM, Richard Hollandsworth wrote:
Further trolling on www.linearacoustic.com revealed yet another mechanism for "missing dialog", esp. during sports events...or with an overly aggressivesynthetic surround mix: http://www.linearacoustic.com/sports/index.htmSeveral music and sports broadcasts (incl. FOX) have been using SRS Circle Surroundencoding to synthetically "enhance" their ambience: http://www.srslabs.com/pressarticle322.asp?sid=249 Which is why they sound "fake".......The Stereo (Lt/Rt) downmix would contain an ample amount of anti- phase signals.Linear Acoustic claims that the synthetic surround processors in someTVs and AV Receivers somehow gets confused and nulls out the Center channel.But, I've never "fixed" a missing dialog problem in a Stereo program by simply switching off my AV Receiver's PL-II synthetic surround mode....so go figure....holl_ands Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta.