Apparently there are some odd things going on here. The subwoofer channel, with or without bass management, may contain both bass and LFE information. LFE information should be boosted in the processor to play at plus 10dB SPL. Obviuosly, this should happen before bass management mixes LFE and "regular" bass.All of my DVD-As play back on my Denon DVM-4800 at appropriate levels, leading me to conclude that DVD-A (as a group) and Denon are somewhat clear on this. As I understand it, LFE content is flagged and handled appropriately. However, if I play back a movie through my 5.1 analogue outputs (instead of through my AVR-4800), the bass is down by 10 dB.
There seem to be a lot of complaints about bass levels from the multichannel SACD camp. Outlaw, the masters of bass management, have stated that some players automatically attenuate the bass by 10 dB and some studios are mixing the bass at -10 dB.
Curiouser and curiouser. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Topic - LFE, DVD-A and SACD? - Jim Pearce 11:39:09 04/14/03 (21)
- Re: LFE, DVD-A and SACD? - John Kotches 12:15:25 04/14/03 (20)
- John, it gets stranger still... - Jim Pearce 12:59:37 04/14/03 (19)
- I have a question regarding this Denon filter... - MT 15:28:54 04/14/03 (1)
- Re: I have a question regarding this Denon filter... - Martin 07:08:30 04/22/03 (0)
- Re: John, it gets stranger still... - John Kotches 13:50:14 04/14/03 (16)
- Re: John, it gets stranger still... - Kal Rubinson 15:02:07 04/14/03 (15)
- Re: John, it gets stranger still... - John Kotches 20:50:11 04/14/03 (8)
- John, take a look at Michael Bishop's comments.... - Jim Pearce 11:29:29 04/16/03 (0)
- Re: John, it gets stranger still... - Kal Rubinson 18:44:18 04/15/03 (6)
- Re: John, it gets stranger still... - John Kotches 20:37:52 04/15/03 (5)
- Not necessarily. - Jim Pearce 12:00:18 04/16/03 (2)
- Re: Not necessarily. - John Kotches 13:00:51 04/16/03 (1)
- Agreed, we're way off track. - Jim Pearce 13:28:25 04/16/03 (0)
- Ah... - Kal Rubinson 08:02:31 04/16/03 (1)
- Re: Ah... - John Kotches 09:03:10 04/16/03 (0)
- Perhaps I wasn't clear... - Jim Pearce 20:16:36 04/14/03 (2)
- Re: Perhaps I wasn't clear... - Dave Kingsland 03:43:28 04/15/03 (1)
- You're right, Dave. - Jim Pearce 06:38:13 04/15/03 (0)
- Re: John, it gets stranger still... - Dave Kingsland 16:57:26 04/14/03 (2)
- I agree - Joe Murphy Jr 08:08:16 04/15/03 (1)
- I disagree. - Jim Pearce 08:31:40 04/15/03 (0)