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Originally posted by Deromax:
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Originally posted by KMDonlon:
[b] Glad to hear I am not the only one who feels strongly on this, no word so far from Outlaw regarding a possible firmware fix... many of us are waiting patiently... some more than others :rolleyes:
You're not the only one with the issue! I'm also appaled at the number of people who offered irrelevant solution to you on this thread. Most actually offered solutions to fix the reverse of our problem! I fully understood you issue at first reading, and english is not even my primary language!

In my case, I don't even have the luxury to lower the sub level because I don't actually run a sub! My mains L/R are full range beasts incorporating their own amplified woofers, so no add-on sub required here! So even if the sub offset would go both direction, this wouldn't fix my issue. Feeding the L/R with a regular full range stereo produce a balanced sound with plenty of bass response and headroom. Only with Dolby Digital source the bass is grossly overpowering everything.

Only an "LFE trim" adjustment would correct the bass output. Anyonw know why Dolby decided to boost the LFE signal by 10 dB at the encoding of a DD title? They call it a feature? I call it a defect!

I don't know see how I can fix this... I'm familar with my room, my equipment and my DVDs. I'm into HT and loud car audio since the early 90s and I do live sound mixing as part of my job for almost 20 years.

I opened a ticket with Outlaw, we'll see. [/b]
Eric,

Thought you would like to read the DTS guidelines on why they boosted the LFE by 10dBs: http://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/manuals/DTSPOSTPROD.pdf Look at page 14 and their reasoning is due to home theater room response vs. movie theater response for LFE, hence the recording difference. Also wanted to thank you for one of your posts that got me thinking why my 2 channel bass sounded a bit thin. I changed my speaker setting to large instead of small which Outlaw support suggested. Also you may want to try out a DTS sound calibration test disc to determine how well your power subs in your towers are blending with the other drivers in your speakers. I found out while calibrating my brother-in-law's Def Tech BP-2002 speakers that using his receiver's test tones for each channel wasn't fine enough to blend his powered subs to the drivers of his towers properly and produced excessive bass when movies were played. Again due to the DTS and DD standards! Those tower speakers with the powered subs seemed at bit tricky for me at times and took me a while to find the right balance for his speakers. Hopefully Outlaw Support will come out with a firmware solution that can address the problems discussed on this thread.

Slbenz