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Denon 3805, muddy voices.

Anyone else experience somewhat untintelligable male dialogue with this reciever?... unintelle.... .. hmm. did i spell that right?

anyways

Not sure if it is the reciever, i WAS using this crap-ass kenwood HTIB center channel cause i havent had a chance to upgrade it yet. Sometimes the dialogue was somewhat hard to make out. So, i switched to a PHANTOM center mode and got the dialogue out of my Jm Lab Chorus 707s, and the problem is still somewhat there, but not as bad. I have a hard time believing the JM Labs are the cause.

Anybody else experience this?
Im only 28 and shudder to think my hearing is going downhill already. LOL
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mtrot
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I have been having the same problem with my Sony DA4ES on center channel dialog. Muddy, indistinct, unintelligible dialog. My Legacy Sig III mains are crystal clear, however.

I even bought a new center channel speaker and speaker cable, which has helped some. But this is a pretty good center channel speaker, and it should be crystal clear as well.

I do wonder now if it is a problem with the DD/DTS decoder in the receiver.
mtrot
804 posts
 
My Goertz Alpha Core MI-2 speaker cable has helped some, as well as the Oppo 970 DVD player I recently purchased.

But I now am afraid the biggest problem is my aging ears. It seems younger people are able to understand the center channel quite a bit better than my wife and I.
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