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Originally Posted by Ruined
There is no clean way to compensate for this problem. Your solution is not going to fix the problem, it creates new problems instead. Even with a brand new HDMI 1.3 TrueHD/DTS-HDMA receiver/processor you will be hit bigtime with this bug.
This is why:
On Blu-ray you primarily have discs with one of the following types of lossless audio:
1) PCM soundtracks
2) TrueHD soundtracks
3) DTS-HDMA soundtracks
Assuming you are using bitstream decoding for TrueHD/DTS-HDMA (BD30 has no internal decoders for these), with this glitch, only #1 is affected with -5db LFE. Meaning, *only* when you playback a PCM soundtrack will the LFE be weak over HDMI; TrueHD and DTS-HDMA will sound fine. The problem is that about 75% of the Blu-ray discs out there have PCM soundtracks with no TrueHD/DTS-HDMA alternative; however, about 25% have TrueHD/DTS-HDMA but no PCM.
Therefore this means in order to get the correct volume level you will have to be screwing around with your processor's LFE channel volume in the Speaker Setup screens every other movie depending on whether it has PCM or not. If you simply turn up the LFE by 5db in general, then on TrueHD/DTS-HDMA movies your subwoofer will be 5db too loud, overpowering the other channels.
And, you have to actually adjust the LFE channel in the processor setup menu, simply adjusting your subwoofer volume actually creates a brand new problem. Reason being that due to bass management if you simply increase your subwoofer by 5db then LFE channel will be fixed however the redirected bass from the processor's bass management will be running 5db too loud - again, overpowering the soundtrack.
In other words, there is no clean or satisfactory workaround for this player problem - even with an advanced processor like the Integra DTC-9.8 - and as a result you have to be continually messing around with processor settings depending on each specific movie you watch. Aside from going into your processors setup screens before every other movie, there is no way to fix the issue. I find that unacceptable for a $500 player. I'm sure Denon BT-2500 users are finding it even less acceptable for a $1000 player.
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The Onkyo 805 lets you configure the bass levels for DD, DTS, DSD, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HDMA, and PCM Lossless tracks separately in its menus. I can boost the format (not the input) by 1-10 dB. Is this feature absent from the Integra? And wouldn't this feature basically make this bug meaningless?
Edit - Nevermind. I just checked and it only lets me decrease each format 10 or 20 decibels.