Posted by Niall Leonard on 11/18/05 11:49

On 18 Nov 2005 02:27:37 -0800, "Damon" <google@dshawcross.co.uk>
wrote:

>
>pickles_james@hotmail.com wrote:
>> i simply have the dvd/home cinema hooked up to the tv via a scart ( but
>> i dont think it matters about how its hooked up to the tv becasue all
>> the speakers are plugged directly into the dvd/hc player in the slots
>> at the back marked woofer, right surround, left surround etc.
>> i have the tv turned down all the time and let the hc do the sound (
>> due to the fact that i dont want to have to turn up/down both tv and
>> dvd/hc.
>>
>> am i being any clearer?
>> any help would be appretiated
>> maybe iam just being to fussy about individual sounds coming from
>> individual speakers?
>
>No, your hook up through the scart in your case is purely for picture
>purposes.
>
>If you can scrape up £100 - £150 get to Richer sounds and get a
>dedicated amplifier, it would have to be better for the surround.
>
>You should be getting incidental noise from individual speakers, the
>fact that you are not means that something isn't right.
>
>Starwars Ep 3 has some good sound, at the start there are space ships
>coming in from over your right shoulder and wizzing across to the left
>front speaker.
>Check your DVDs for sound set up in the extras, they may have a channel
>test in there if your DVD player doesn't have it's own.
>A lot of DVDs have very flat surround and are nothing sopecial, rent
>one that has a good 5.1 audio and a setup test. the Lucasfilms ones doo
>
>Damon

Make sure your speakers are properly spread out, pointing in the right
direction, and that you're sitting in the right place. Audiophiles
use sound pressure meters and all that stuff, but just use your ears.
Run a test to make sure all the speakers are wired up and responding
(most half-decent setups have a test routine that sends a hissing
noise to each speaker in turn - look on your remote).

You must have Gladiator. Everybody has a copy of Gladiator, except my
mother in law. It has a cracking DTS soundtrack (except for the
latest 'director's cut' apparently)(!)

You have to choose the DTS sound from the options menu in the DVD.
Enable that, choose the opening battle scene or the Battle of
Carthage, crank up the volume to eleven, and if your pictures don't
fall off the walls, forget about it.

The beach-head sequence from Saving Private Ryan is even more
astounding with DTS enabled. Bullets cracking past your head and all.
However personally I could never use that as a showoff sequence for
DTS - it's so horrendously violent and brutal...

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