Troubleshooting: sound quality
Real buyer questions on troubleshooting: sound quality, answered in plain terms.
Usually settings and expectations, not hardware. Movies use every speaker in the room; music is stereo, so it lives or dies on your front pair and how you drive them.
Troubleshooting: sound qualityTwo different things, and the fix depends on which one you have. Hiss is the electronics' noise floor. Hum is electrical, and it deserves more attention.
Troubleshooting: sound qualityPartly normal, partly fixable, and telling the two apart is the whole answer.
Troubleshooting: sound qualityThree suspects, and the fix depends entirely on which one it is: the room, the pairing, or the settings. Do the free ones first.
Troubleshooting: sound qualityThe AVR displays what it receives. "Dolby Digital" on the front panel means Atmos is not arriving at the receiver, so the leak is upstream, not in your speakers or the AVR. Nine times out of ten it is the source's output mode or the HDMI path.
Troubleshooting: sound qualityThe room and the settings, almost never the subwoofer. Boomy bass is a placement and level problem in nine out of ten rooms we visit, so do not shop for a new sub yet.
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