Making it sound right

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I have a Yamaha 5.1 and two tower speakers, center one (two 5 inch and
tiny tweeter), and two RCA in the rear.
Problem: The Center speaker is hard to understand the people talking, and I
turn it up. Then there is a explosion, gun fire or music, and the twower
speakers kich in with the 15 inch Woofers and you come right out the chair.
I've got to change something, but don't know which way to go.

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Are you listening to dolby digital material or Pro Logic?
If you calibrated your speakers (with test tones from AVIA DVD or other)
than your problem may be solved by sound compression if you are listening to
Dolby Digital. The Yamaha amplifier allows for this in the settings ; go to
"Dolby RNG" and select LOW out of Wide, Standard and Low.
Otherwise, if you are listening to Pro Logic you may boost your center
speaker a few decibels relative to the main one. In extreme cases, you
should have a main speaker attenuation switch at the rear of the amplifier
to usually allows you to decrease to main speaker output by 10 decibels.

Good luck!
"Joe H" <JoeT@mailpuppy.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Yamaha 5.1 and two tower speakers, center one (two 5 inch
and
> tiny tweeter), and two RCA in the rear.
> Problem: The Center speaker is hard to understand the people talking, and
I
> turn it up. Then there is a explosion, gun fire or music, and the twower
> speakers kich in with the 15 inch Woofers and you come right out the
chair.
> I've got to change something, but don't know which way to go.
>
>

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Yes, so does mine and I have adjusted them several times.

I believe the problem is my tower spearkers are set up too good with my
electronic cross overs from radio shack.

I took the yamaha center speaker apart today, and it's a bad news cross over
and the voice rance just isn't there. It has two 5 inch in it, but that
upper range one is out for now and I'll be picking up a speaker to replace
it.

"bearman" <noyb@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Joe H" <JoeT@mailpuppy.com> wrote in message
> news:UsidnQW_jbhv7wzdRVn-uw@giganews.com...
> > I have a Yamaha 5.1 and two tower speakers, center one (two 5 inch
> and
> > tiny tweeter), and two RCA in the rear.
> > Problem: The Center speaker is hard to understand the people talking,
and
> I
> > turn it up. Then there is a explosion, gun fire or music, and the twower
> > speakers kich in with the 15 inch Woofers and you come right out the
> chair.
> > I've got to change something, but don't know which way to go.
> >
> >
> My Pioneer has individual level adjustments for each speaker. Yamaha must
> have something similar.
>
> Bearman
>
>