Why does my home theater surround sound setup not push my speakers as loud as my old receiver?
Posted by admin in Home Entertainment Q&AJul 3rd, 2009 | 6 responses
aaroncoburn26 asked:
I got a new 7.1 850 watt home theater setup that comes with an actual receiver but it's no where near as loud as it use to be why is this?
I got a new 7.1 850 watt home theater setup that comes with an actual receiver but it's no where near as loud as it use to be why is this?
6 Responses to “Why does my home theater surround sound setup not push my speakers as loud as my old receiver?”
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Maybe your old setup is just under stereo mode which makes your speakers produce loud noises but not filtered.
Nowadays, with the advent of say Dolby / THX, the loudness that you have been missing is very much filtered by how the distribution of your 7.1 setup home theater.
Do not worry about this, I am sure that before you made the shift to your new home theater, you can’t distinguish a bullet case falling on the floor (if for example you are watching Rambo letting all out). With your 7.1 setup, you can even have a distinct insight on what part of the floor the bullet case fell off.
Enjoy your 7.1 setup.
Maybe your old setup is just under stereo mode which makes your speakers produce loud noises but not filtered.
Nowadays, with the advent of say Dolby / THX, the loudness that you have been missing is very much filtered by how the distribution of your 7.1 setup home theater.
Do not worry about this, I am sure that before you made the shift to your new home theater, you can’t distinguish a bullet case falling on the floor (if for example you are watching Rambo letting all out). With your 7.1 setup, you can even have a distinct insight on what part of the floor the bullet case fell off.
Enjoy your 7.1 setup.
I had the same thing happen to me, Newer receivers are more meant for surround sound, in short… movies. NOT music.
This happened to me too & it sucks. The loudest setting I found that still gave me surround sound was matrix. The rest of them, the sound was flat & weak. If yours has matrix mode, see how that sounds.
Auto calibration to set up your speakers levels could be the culprit. If so just increase the volume
If you did the auto setup go back in and do a manual setup,
you might like the result better.