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How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - GTX - 29-May-2016 First evening trying phantom as home cinema speakers. Simple setup composed of a Panasonic viera plasma TV 60" streaming Netflix (wireless connection). TV optical out into one the 2 phantoms silver (software 1.7.1). Dialogue 2 floors away connected to apple router. Phantoms' network connection is PCM. Room 7m x 4m, TV/Phantoms placed on the long side, 3m apart and 3m from listening position (10° toe-in). The good: latency has almost disappeared vs last time I tried a couple of months ago. Very clear soundstage. Clear, well defined voices. Good bass. The question: to get decent volume I am running the Phantoms @95 volume level! With music 95 would make the house rattle, why is it that the sound level is so low? Am I doing anything wrong? Any other advice to improve the sound quality of this setup? RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - Axel - 29-May-2016 Just a guess, but is there a setting in the TVs menu to adjust the sound output? RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - GTX - 29-May-2016 Thanks. Looked for it but did not find anything. My understanding is that optical out (PCM) does not feature any volume setting, being just a digital signal. Am I getting this wrong? RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - Jean-Marie - 29-May-2016 You certainly have something in the chain that does digital attenuation in the chain. For Phantoms, a volume setup to 70 corresponds to zero dB attenuation, meaning that at 0 dBFS you reach 99 dBA for the white and 105 dBA for the silver. RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - Silvertouran - 29-May-2016 Maybe you have to put the optical from the TV into the Dialog and not into one of the Phantoms. Not ideal obviously if your Dialog is 2 rooms away though. I only have 1 Phantom so I don't have a Dialog and i have no issues with volume from my TV which also has no volume control when using optical out. RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - ondastar - 29-May-2016 (29-May-2016, 00:03)GTX Wrote: First evening trying phantom as home cinema speakers. Simple setup composed of a Panasonic viera plasma TV 60" streaming Netflix (wireless connection). TV optical out into one the 2 phantoms silver (software 1.7.1). Dialogue 2 floors away connected to apple router. Phantoms' network connection is PCM. Room 7m x 4m, TV/Phantoms placed on the long side, 3m apart and 3m from listening position (10° toe-in). Check your Panasonic manual for control of the ARC (audio return channel) and the role of the HDMI controls. There is a lot of cross reference discussions on the AV chats on this topic. RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - dogbait - 30-May-2016 GTX check if your TV has a setting like 'Boost volume on downsample'. When a 5.1 signal is down mixed to stereo the volume comes out lower. Most apps (like Plex for example) will have a setting to raise the volume to handle that. RE: How to get Home Cinema right with Phantom - jannem - 02-Jun-2016 I have exactly the same setup with a Samsung TV and it works fine. I agree with the statements above you have digital attenuation somewhere in your chain prior to Phantom. |