I recently bought a Philips 47"LCD TV from Sams Club. The TV has an audio setting for Dialogue Enhancement which seems to simply elevate those frequencies where human voice takes place. It actually seems to work pretty well.
I have a cheap (homemade) Home Theater system driven by an old KLH R5100 Dolby 5.1 Receiver.
I find that the center channel audio of the Philips TV with dialogue enhancement is much more "functional" to me than that coming from the KLH reciever. It has nothing to do with the volume level, but instead the clarity of the dialogue!
I have tried a different center channel speaker- doesn't seem to help much- and it appears that my receivers tone controls are defeated by Dolby 5.1.
Any suggestions on how I can get better center channel clarity that is "as good as" the colored/emphasized human voice frequencies I am getting from the Philips TV?
I can't use the TV audio and the reciever audio together, as they are slightly out of phase with each other causing a wierd reverberation.
I see that some of the Pioneer home theatre receivers have "dialogue enhancement" but I downloaded a product manual that indicated this feature simply pushed all dialogue to the center channel (I thought dolby 5.1 did this anyway?) and did not indicate it boosted any frequencies (does anyone have this? does it work well?)
Do newer receivers contain graphic equalizers that are NOT defeated by Dolby Digital? This might be my answer.
