HD-A3 and that damn Dynamic range control!

[chris6878]

So I was Playing with my system last night. I was watching the first scene in beowulf awaiting for Grendal to make his grand entrance. As he blew up the door I was left wanting more. I thought, were was the big boom everyone was talking about. My sub was not getting a workout at all. I then skipped to the dragon scene and got the same feeling. I then went to the a3 settings and saw that the dynamic range control was on. I remember reading that the range control limits your your sound. Well it definitely does that. I set it to off and went back to the 1st grendal scene. Damn when grendal came through the door it made me jump... literally. My sub ( PB12-Plus/2) actually made my sofa shake.

Now I have to back and rewatch Shooter, Transformers, and The bourne series. Should be a long weekend!:)

[Johnd]

So I was Playing with my system last night. I was watching the first scene in beowulf awaiting for Grendal to make his grand entrance. As he blew up the door I was left wanting more. I thought, were was the big boom everyone was talking about. My sub was not getting a workout at all. I then skipped to the dragon scene and got the same feeling. I then went to the a3 settings and saw that the dynamic range control was on. I remember reading that the range control limits your your sound. Well it definitely does that. I set it to off and went back to the 1st grendal scene. Damn when grendal came through the door it made me jump... literally. My sub ( PB12-Plus/2) actually made my sofa shake.

Now I have to back and rewatch Shooter, Transformers, and The bourne series. Should be a long weekend!:)


Hah. Yes, DRC should be set to "Off" unless, well, you like that kind of thing. Happy listening! John

[Alamar]

That's a good tip for other people. I would have thought any sort of dynamic range compression would have been off by default.

[chris6878]

That's a good tip for other people. I would have thought any sort of dynamic range compression would have been off by default.

Yea I would think that would be a good idea, but I guess toshiba doesnt

[PENG]

Yea I would think that would be a good idea, but I guess toshiba doesnt

My default to auto, may be it depends on the firmware version.

[DTS]

The PS3 is on by default as well. Watched August Rush on Blu ray last night, one of the first blu movies we viewed with it, and about 1/2 through remembered this post. After the movie I checked, and it was on. So we had to re-watch several scenes, Rhapsody, the organ and dueling guitars. Made a lot of difference. My A2 was set to on by default too.