A question about Audyssey

[Defcon]

I am trying out a Denon X2200w. When I enable Dynamic Volume, the sound is much louder! I don't know if this is by design, according to the docs its only supposed to normalize peaks. But even simple dialogue is much louder at the light/medium levels.

So is Audyssey increasing the speaker levels, and is it ignoring the levels it has set after calibration?

 

[lovinthehd]

I am trying out a Denon X2200w. When I enable Dynamic Volume, the sound is much louder! I don't know if this is by design, according to the docs its only supposed to normalize peaks. But even simple dialogue is much louder at the light/medium levels.

So is Audyssey increasing the speaker levels, and is it ignoring the levels it has set after calibration?

I'd just turn off Dyn Volume, don't know why Denon versions of Audyssey even enable that automatically. Useful perhaps under late nite circumstances but not generally. It's a dynamic compression routine.

 

[lovinthehd]

I'd just turn off Dyn Volume, don't know why Denon versions of Audyssey even enable that automatically. Useful perhaps under late nite circumstances but not generally. It's a dynamic compression routine.

 

[rojo]

mclovin is right, that Dynamic Volume == dynamic compression. The overall volume is boosted, so peaks are less dramatic. In a room with a high noise floor (HVAC running, 4-year-old child being a 4-year-old child, etc), I actually prefer Dynamic Volume enabled (but set to low). It's also nice in the evening after my daughter goes to bed and I have less fear of explosions or car salesmen startling her out of bed.

 

[Defcon]

In a scene with just dialog, which has no dynamic range, why does enabling DV boost the volume? There's no compression to be done here.

If I turn it off, I have to boost the volume by about 10dB regardless of what's playing, that doesn't seem right

 

[lovinthehd]

I don't know....maybe this might help.

 

[TLS Guy]

In a scene with just dialog, which has no dynamic range, why does enabling DV boost the volume? There's no compression to be done here.

If I turn it off, I have to boost the volume by about 10dB regardless of what's playing, that doesn't seem right

If you engage any compressor average level is always increased. Even speech has a large dynamic range. Just watch it on a VU meter.

Any compressor is a quality spoiler, but circumstances may make a compressor useful, such as being able to master and CD and making program fit within the dynamic of radio broadcasting. There are other uses such as making program intelligible in a noisy environment, like a car.