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Onkyo HT-S5100 7.1 Home Theater

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6/17/09 at 7:04am
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Hello All,

A few months back I decided to upgrade my old Home Theater and bought the Onkyo HT-S5100 7.1 after reading reviews and hearing it in a few stores. I am getting too lazy to buy each piece individually and I think the package price was excellent. Anyway the system sounds pretty good. The bass, back ground music and effects on dvd's is awesome but it seems the spoken audio is sometimes too low. I have played with the different audio settings but I can't find one that raises the spoken audio. If anybody has experience with this and can help out I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Erik
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6/17/09 at 8:15am
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Re: Onkyo HT-S5100 7.1 Home Theater

Normally you raise total volume so that the dialog is easily heard. This makes the music/effects on some discs *very loud*, like they are in the theater, which might be too loud for you or your neighbors. If you want to lower the dynamic range, make the music/effects less loud in comparison to the dialog, so you can raise the dialog enough to be heard but not raise the peak levels as much, check out the "late night" function, see your manual on how to activate it.
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6/17/09 at 9:21am
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Re: Onkyo HT-S5100 7.1 Home Theater

There won't be a specific section on raisng the volume of "spoken audio", but if the dialogue is hard to hear at a comfortable over-all listening level, you should be able to raise the relative volume of just the center speaker. The "night" or "late night" feature Stephen mentions is another alternative, but that has to be set each time you turn on the receiver. The relative speaker volume settings remain as they are until you change them.

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Joe
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6/17/09 at 10:05am
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Re: Onkyo HT-S5100 7.1 Home Theater

The center channel isn't a dialog only channel, so boosting the center would also raise the level of any sound effects & music in the center channel. This approach works somewhat, but it also throws that channel out of balance with the rest of the speakers. The dynamic range adjustment with late night is more exactly the alteration to the sound one is after. I prefer that way even having to enable it every time. It does have the defect of only working with Dolby Digital sources.
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