Going on the premise that “two Audiofile towers set up as surrounds” means you have a 5.1 set up:
Assuming that you have all the levels adjusted correctly, and your source unit is set to output Dolby Digital and not PCM, and that you have the receiver set correctly for Dolby Digital and not something else, I’m going to guess that you plugged the speakers into the 7.1 speaker terminals. Either that or maybe you have the receiver set for 7.1 instead of 5.1.
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
OK. I did run the tone test. All the speakers put out the sound they need to put out.
I have a 7.2 setup. I have the 2 E90's, Polk center, 2 audiofile surrounds, and 2 onkyo front high surrounds, and 2 subs.
Yes the surrounds are hooked up to the AVR on the correct surround speaker connections.
Yes it is on Dolby Digital.
Actually yesterday I bought Interstellar and hoped for the best. I chose DTS HD Mstr audio from the movie settings and it started playing in that format on my PS3. NOW......my family and I noticed on some parts of the movie we could barely hear the voices when talking. So I switched my AVR to PLIIx and the voices got better in the center channel. We could hear them much more clearly even with all the loud scenes of the movie. I could also hear the surrounds much better in the PLIIx format. For some reason though on the AVR screen it showed DTS HD MSTR AUDIO even though I was using PLIIx format. I then put in Rambo (the newest one) and I could here the surrounds really well. I guess it depends on the movie correct? Some more than others.