Av reciever with good dynamic range controls?

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I have a Denon 1507 AV receiver, but it has virtually no control of dynamic range, if I were to play the fellowship of the ring for example, setting the volume high enough to hear the epilogue dialogue would cause hearing damage in the subsequent battle scene. Are there any av receivers with more extensive control of dynamic range so it can be compressed better to correct the failures of the audio producers?

 

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Hi mate

I would suggest checking your speaker levels and make sure they all @ 75db using a spl metre then your issue should be gone.

It's harder to check the sub level with an spl you either need to do it by ear or using REW

Newer Pioneer av amps have DRC but I couldn't tell you how effective they are never used it as never had your problem
DRC is designed for watching films later at night when you don't want that sudden impact that wakes the munchkins up

The setup wizard set every speaker to the same output automatically using the microphone. When playing in 5 channel stereo everything sounds fine, so it's definitely a dynamic range problem.

I'll try increasing the centre speaker output though.

The only good dynamic range control is turning it OFF. Last time I checked, explosions are louder than conversations.

Yeah and they normally cause hearing damage too. Don't want to experience that when watching movies thanks.

 

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There's a couple of points here;
1) we know what the amp is but not the speakers. That could be very significant.

The speakers are the Tannoy EFX 5.1 set.

I've measured the distance from the speakers to the mic so that is correct. I've also tried turning the sub off and it's still too loud. I'm not talking about explosions here but everything being too loud all of a sudden.

This dvd in particular,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYkcrgced9U

from 1:30 here the sound becomes incredibly loud if I have the volume high enough to hear the dialogue at the start.

 

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The strange thing is it sounds great in stereo mode, great bass with the horses hoof beats resonating as they pound into the ground in the flight to the ford and loud dramatic music, but in DD 5.1 the horror starts.

 

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I wonder, is the player set to default to stereo or mixing down 5.1 to stereo. Have a look at the player settings.

Says dolby digital 5.1 on the front when playing a blu-ray or dvd.

I will fire this same disc up in the morning - I only have on blu ray but there is likely the dolby digital sound track on there as well as the DTS HD Master and let you know how it sounds.

Did you try it out?