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2/5/12 at 2:22pm
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Hey guys just bought a new blu ray home theatre for my dad and set it, sounds great and everything, but being that my dad is extremely picky and old he is flipping out over one little thing...

On the upstairs TV's home theatre you hear the voice of the person speaking on the TV (using ESPN for an example) through all 5 speakers. On the one I set up downstairs for him you only hear it through the center and front left/front right. He wants the "voice" through all 5 and i have no idea what to do.

I have minimal experience with HT systems, especially blu ray, and was hoping somebody could help me out on what to do to get the "voice" through all 5 and not just the front three. Thanks

This is the blu ray system I have
Its a sony blu ray 3D home theater model BDV-E280

** I did notice on the panasonic one I have up stairs (which is not blu ray) you only hear the "voice" through all 5 when on the setting "PARTY" and not movie or music, but the sony one downstairs doesn't have a party setting.

Thanks!
Please help me out
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post #2 of 3
2/5/12 at 8:18pm
To some degree, what speakers the voices come from depends on the recording. But 19 time out of 20, the voices are *supposed* to come mainly from the center channel. That said, if your data likes voices from all speakers what you generally want to do is use the all channel stereo setting. It also can't hurt to play with the other sound modes.
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2/5/12 at 8:30pm
What you're looking for is called All Channel Stereo by most other brands or Exteneded stereo by Pioneer. I think Sony calls it A.F.D. Multi. It looks like you access it through the Options button on the remote control. What it does is convert a two channel stereo recording to five channel playback. Basically whatever is heard thru the front speakers is also heard thru the center and surrounds. This should get vocals to all the speakers. This is the exact opposite of what he should want but being set in his ways, A.F.D. Multi is probably what he wants. And since this only acts on a stereo signal any 5.1 discs like Dolby digital or DTS will probably sound the way it is now. You could look at the audio menu and see if you can select Stereo as the primary audio output instead of DD/DTS but again, this is going backwards. But it's what he may prefer.
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