http://www.dslreports.com/forum/DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298134 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:11:24 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:11:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23317964 In life, everything from a needle falling on a wood floor, to an atomic bomb or a Saturn V rocket launch is the reality of sound. The better technology gets, the closer to this reality the recording world can get.
The problem is with trying to reproduce this on a small TV speaker. That's why my home theater has 17,000 watts of amplifcation and banks of huge speakers. Movies like U-571 start to approach realistic dynamic range. When you get the dialog at the right level, the bombs are breaking your eardrums.
Now some DVD players have DNR or dynamic range control in the setup menu, which can be enabled in degrees. This is intended for late night viewing, so as not to disturb the neighbors. Such a feature might help in your case.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23317964 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:37:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23302950 --
Alumni "Mental State"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23302950 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298340 said by vasta:

The Blu-Ray player is hooked up via HDMI, I've reset the audio configs on the TV, Messed with the settings (as recommended by the Vizio email I got) and everything sounds the same no matter what settings...

What causes that? Do I need to buy a sound system? Just for the record TV stations sound fine at a reasonable volume of 10-15


That is because your using the 5.1 or 7.1 (on blu-rays)
audio track

use the *classic* 2.0 channel on the audio selection ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298340 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:09:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298325 You can lower surround channels as well to keep special effects down.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298325 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298134
The same thing happened when I tested out my old Playstation with an audio CD, I had to crank the volume just to hear the music decently

The Blu-Ray player is hooked up via HDMI, I've reset the audio configs on the TV, Messed with the settings (as recommended by the Vizio email I got) and everything sounds the same no matter what settings...

What causes that? Do I need to buy a sound system? Just for the record TV stations sound fine at a reasonable volume of 10-15]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/DVDBluRay-have-low-volume-23298134 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:24:00 EDT