Hello all,
I am frustrated with watching movies and having to constantly adjust volumes to hear dialogue, and then be blown out of the room when some loud action takes place.(It seems worse with DD than with DTS) I understand that adjusting the dynamic range control on either the 1050 or my DVD player will compensate for that. I have a Pioneer DVD player which has dynamic range control (DRC).
My question is: should I use the 1050 "night mode" or use the DRC on my Pioneer?

Thanks

I rasied the center 2db to accomplish what you are talking about.

I have heard of "night mode", but never read about it. What is it? I honestly thought the 1050 would go blank and not have lights on, I guess that was wrong.

Larry

DD has a value in the bitstream called dialnorm, which lets the decoder know where the level of 'normal' dialog in the bitstream is. The intent is that the dialog will always be the same level for a given volume knob position, although that is subject to the engineers doing the right thing.

Night mode takes sounds louder or quieter than dialnorm and makes them closer to dialnorm, or the dialog. The intended net effect is to reduce the dynamic range while allowing the dialog volume to stay constant. It's a pretty nifty idea in theory and seems to work OK in practice as well.