Andy and Paul. It's funny you say that. Ive played with source volume as you've stated and am I wrong its kinda like a master volume for that input? Last night I watched Chicago PD and Vikings on DirecTV. As far as it is now it's great. Enough bass, clarity and levels on each speaker. If I go to my shield input and watch say , Thor ragnorok, on Netflix it's good but a bit lacking vs my older onkyo with less power (albiet that was a 7 channel avr). The onkyo had a different type of bass. Only way to describe it is less refined but more hammer ( that is just the reference for that movie on Netflix). Still on the shield I put any show on prime and it's like they turned the volume way down as well as the dynamic range seems compressed. Bass seems lacking and the upper range quashed. Not sure if that's the right way to state it and in that aspect I assume it's just a symptom and problem on Amazon's side. The crappy part is since Netflix, youtube, prime and Kodi are all on the shield there's no separate source adjust. I have a few movies from Blu Ray ripped to my hard drive connected to the shield and watched Tron: legacy. The Denon has a bit less bass then the onkyo, but it did seem to go deeper and punch harder. I couldn't complain on that front as the intro and first frisbee fight scene was extrordinary. I threw in John wick on Blu Ray and only watched a small bit but the scene at the cemetery raining felt like I was in the rain. The top rears sounded just like a storm, oh and also watching Chicago PD last night an ambulance was in the end and the sirens we're played from the tops. I literally thought it was an ambulance outside lol
One thing I'm curious on and what I did for bass where as follows:
When first running Audessey they had me adjust the subs volumes knobs to 75db. They had the knobs at 1/4. With the onkyo the knobs where just past half way. With the knobs at 1/4 on the Denon I was unimpressed but yesterday before any of watching of shows just mentions I adjusted the knobs to halfway. What I'm curious on is I wanted to check to see how Audessey did with level matching the speakers. I ran threw FL, c, fr, Sr,sl, tl, tr and all at 75. Once I got to the subs, no sound at all. I had to adjust the subs for the test from -11 to +8 to even hear them. I set them back at -11 as at +8 the bass would be rediculous and smoke my subs.
Paul, I think I'm gonna have to spend a good amnt of time learning the receiver as compared to the 2003 onkyo they are world's apart.
Oh, and my wife keeps asking sarcastically, "was it worth 900 bucks
"...yes sweetie..it was. Lol
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