During exciting explosive scenes with On Demand movies the audio becomes dull and not full of life. It sounds great during dialog and musical scores however when there is something loud it simply dampens as if some sort of sound equalization is going on to keep the audio track at one volume. Watching the same movie on Disc the audio is simply stunning and exciting scenes rock the system as it should. This happens on two different boxes in the house whose receivers are both Yamaha but different models. Living room is the main DVR Media center and Basement the smaller slave box. I have tried all three Dynamic Range audio settings, however “none” sounds the best by far during normal dialog / non action scenes. Everything is going though HDMI from the cable box to the Yamaha receiver, then via HDMI to the TV. Cable box is set to fixed audio, Surround, Dynamic range "none". Receiver is set to straight audio and is showing a 5.1 surround sound when the movie plays. Both systems have at least one 15” Sub and with Blu Ray, DVD, Netflix and Amazon the audio is significantly louder with much more depth and range, the kind of earth shaking audio quality with crisp highs and sub terrain lows one would expect from a large mid range surround sound system.
I unplugged the slave box to reset it, still not luck. TV stations likfe TBS, FX have much more audio punch and are not affected by this audio equalization during exciting / explosive scenes.
Last movies rented were “Deadpool” and “The 5th Wave”
Anyone else having a similar issue or better yet a solution?