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Changing Strato E Audio Output - not working?

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Brody

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I have a bit of an unusual situation.

Because I’ve had a huge flareup of tinnitus I’m actually having trouble listening to movies with high dynamic range. So I’m trying everything I can to find where I can apply compression for now.

Unfortunately my old Denon AVR 2809 doesn’t offer very good features for that.
My OPPO has some dynamic range control as a source but unfortunately Kaleidescape doesn’t offer that feature.

So I was trying to see what it might sound like if I feed my Denon stereo tracks.

I went to the web interface for my audio settings on my Strato E and I changed from bitstream to have it output stereo PCM.
It didn’t seem to work. The setting on my AVR screen did not seem to change showing any change of input signal, and I didn’t hear any difference. I also tried switching it to PCM multi channel and that didn’t seem to take either.

Does anybody know what’s going on or how to make this work?

I was watching Jurassic Park by the way when trying this.
 
I had issues with tinnitus many years ago and had a Denon receiver back then too. Couldn’t remember my workaround, but my buddy Google did. See if this info about “Activating Audyssey Dynamic Volume from the Remote” helps : Google Search
 
macfan2k24 said:
I had issues with tinnitus many years ago and had a Denon receiver back then too. Couldn’t remember my workaround, but my buddy Google did. See if this info about “Activating Audyssey Dynamic Volume from the Remote” helps : Google Search
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Thanks very much. Unfortunately, I already went through all the possible dynamic compression settings on my Denon and they are not good enough.

The problem is that with dynamic volume it actually does squash dynamics, mostly in the mid range and highs and works quite well for that. But the stupid thing also employees dynamic EQ at the very same time! It does that I believe to try and make up for the fact that we perceive less bass when the volume has turned low. So at the same time that it is squashing dynamics in the upper frequencies it’s massively boosting bass in the lower frequencies! So for instance, I was watching a scene in avatar when I was trying these features and there’s two characters talking I guess in a loading bay area and in the distance behind them, there’s somebody in one of those giant robot outfits walking away.
When played with normal sound the sound of that robot walking is distant and not bother them at all. When played with dynamic volume because of the EQ boost even though its way in the distance the footstep rumbles are gigantic and rumbling through the home theatre and practically covering the dialogue. It’s just absurd.
What a stupid feature - you want to squash dynamic range, but it just boosts it in the bass anyways.
 
Brody said:
I went to the web interface for my audio settings on my Strato E and I changed from bitstream to have it output stereo PCM.
It didn’t seem to work. The setting on my AVR screen did not seem to change showing any change of input signal, and I didn’t hear any difference. I also tried switching it to PCM multi channel and that didn’t seem to take either.
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Changes to the audio and/or video settings don't take place in real time. You have to commit the change by clicking the "OK" button on the popup page:
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If you make and save a configuration change while the player is playing a movie, you will get a notice that playback will be halted:
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J.Green said:
Changes to the audio and/or video settings don't take place in real time. You have to commit the change by clicking the "OK" button on the popup page:
View attachment 12343
If you make and save a configuration change while the player is playing a movie, you will get a notice that playback will be halted:
View attachment 12344
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Ah!

Stupid me. I don’t think I had selected the OK button! I think that solves the mystery.

Thank you very much for the information!

It’s always the simple things…
 
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