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Question

Centre speaker home theatre

by Jun 20, 2018 5:54AM PDT

Hi. Please help me before I go crazy. I have a sony home theatre system. Its RM-ADP090 but I can't find anything online. Its pretty old I suppose. Anyway. I have it connected to my tv through an audio cable and it's all good and everything works fine. But, as soon as I put on a dvd then the centre speaker won't give clear voices. It will only work so I can hear It when I put football sound on...even then it's not good.
I've tried all settings. Highered the volume for centre speaker to the max and dropped all the others...No change. I've eben swapped over the centre speaker with a front one....but it just made that one muffled.
I just don't understand.

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by Pepe7 Jun 20, 2018 7:19AM PDT

*How* is everything connected(?) What type of audio cables and have you tried using all the different sound modes/looking at dolby surround differences, etc.?

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Connections.
by Jun 20, 2018 8:21AM PDT

Hi Pepe. Thankyou fir your help. I have a HDMI from the home theatre to the tv. And an optical lead from it to the tv also. I have tried every setting. None work apart from 'Football mode'.
I've kept the centre and speaker swapped as it's better to have no sound from the surround and be able to hear the voice.
On speaker testing, any speaker plugged into the centre plug...is muffled.
Now the virgin box is connected to the tv with another HDMI and when I watch tv through the speakers, they all work fine (even the centre) and the different settings all change the sound.

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That part number appears to be
by Forum moderator Jun 20, 2018 8:31AM PDT

The remote control and not the HT. https://www.google.com/search?q=RM-ADP090

Anyhow, you will find as gear gets old it can fail in odd ways. At no point you claim it worked until recently. It may be just too old and time to move on.

-> As to the DVD be sure to look around the menus for 5.1 audio tracks.

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Oh
by Brenicole1981 Jun 20, 2018 11:01AM PDT

Haha. Typical woman.

BVD-E3100
That will be why I couldn't find it

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I can't even write a message.
by Brenicole1981 Jun 20, 2018 11:03AM PDT

It has always worked. I've just not watched a DVD for a while. There are no settings on the actual DVD apart from scene select and special features. Weird I know.

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BDV-E3100 ?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 20, 2018 11:12AM PDT

Seems nice enough. But as the movie makers have decided that effects are more important than dialogue you run into this.

Since the title doesn't appear to have 5.1 audio you might have to try other settings.

Manual? https://docs.sony.com/release/BDV-E6100_E4100_E3100_E2100.pdf

Sadly I see no controls to fix what you are asking about.

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Yes
by Brenicole1981 Jun 20, 2018 11:25AM PDT

Its the Prison Break 25 disc box set and on the back it says it's in 5.1 Dolby audio.
How rubbish that I can't use the actual DVD player to watch it. Thanks though.
I've just tried a different DVD. That is fine. It seems to send the audio through the front 2 speakers.
Prison Break will only send the speaking through the centre. I'm not impressed though. Just bought the box set for £70 and can't hear it

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Busted.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 20, 2018 12:01PM PDT

You just confirmed what I've run into. And probably why I can fix it sometimes here. I have an old school (?) BD player that goes to the TV and I can control the audio a bit better by choosing stereo, PCM or other.

If you have a DVD (even worse a set) with mastering issues, I'd yelp and get a refund.

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