AQ on Blu/Bram Stoker Dracul/BD 1400 player

[sawzalot]

I thought this is the place for this question so here goes, Halloween is here and scary movies are a must, last night I wanted to watch Bram Stokers Dracula on Blu just won this on the bay 12.00 brand new. I noticed the AQ kinda sucked or I just didnt configure or set up something properly, any thoughts on the AQ from others ? I have just two fronts and two subs right now no surrounds and or no center, a pioneer 1015 avr so the blu player is hooked up via HDMI to the sony lcd and the audio is via toslink to the avr, the receiver picks up the digital in and auto sets the receiver to stereo, I set the audio on the blu/movie menu to 5.1 compressed and let er rip, heres the problem I had to turn uo the master volume much higher than any other movie , ever to about -5 db I can enjoy many movies at -15 db and that seems too loud this movie at -5 still seemed too low, am I missing something so simple somewhere any thoughts please Thanks, sawz..

 

[jostenmeat]

I have this movie, and if there is an experiment you want to run, say within the next week, lemme know.

So, if you have "2.2" (misnomer, but it's easy) . . . you still get LFE? Just curious. For "stereo" means no LFE, at least as far as terminology.

I wonder if some setting in the player, like "2ch pcm downmix" would sound any different. You'd probably lose a lot of LFE(?).

For the very few comparisons I've made with accompanying lossy tracks, they almost all sound about identical to me. However, every once in a while, there is a big difference (which leads lead me to believe it's a different master), and one of them is the Dark Knight.

The first thing I thought of when seeing your thread, was autoflagged DRC (and a bad implementation of it, such as with Iron Man) from a TrueHD track, but this title doesn't have that, so it can't be it.

Lastly, some movies are just mixed a lot louder than others.

Sorry, I don't know what to say.