Yeah, it's definitely not ideal but the shared room doesn't allow me to move seating closer to the front stage and TV, unfortunately. I just upgraded to a bigger screen for the same reason.
That said, I just solved the underlying problem (poor sound quality (dead, muffled) and poor consistency across different content) in a different way with with 1 simple change: I tested switching the TV audio out connection from Toslink, to HDMI and once I finally got a handshake, voila: night and day difference, especially with Netflix. Settings are back to within a db of volume for each channel and the output is so much clearer and pretty consistent across different content and providers.
I can only assume Toslink might no longer be sufficient to process the available audio streams with sufficient fidelity, perhaps due to bandwidth limits?
I'll skip the backstory on why I was using Toslink in the first place but for those who are still looking to override the forced Audyssey target curves and get around other unwanted limitations in the Audyssey app, I found this awesome looking free web based solution that taps into REW to clean up room corrections and get rid of various other unwanted settings that are forced otherwise. Check out this video
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