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  • Leslie
    Junior Member
    • Sep 2001
    • 27

    #1

    Love the Individual Speaker Level Calibration

    Twice this week, we've rented DVD's which would have been unwatchable without the RDC-7's ability to adjust an individual speaker's level. On the director's cut of The Exorcist, the dialogue was totally inaudible. Some sort of error during encoding, I suppose. Anyway, I quickly went to the OSM and raised the audio level by 4 decibels! Heard the dialogue perfectly and its level matched that of the rest of the audio.

    Same thing happened two nights later with a British film (Snatch). We frequently experience real problems with dialogue encoding (drowned out by the rest of the sound)in British films. Once again, out came the trusty remote and in a flash, we had the dialogue track raised by 3.5 decibels to a point where it was audible. [Note: if you rent this DVD, you might want to consider using the subtitles which translate what Brad Pitt's character says -- otherwise you're basically outta luck.] This is a really GREAT feature.

    Thank you RDC-7.
    Leslie
  • Burke Strickland
    Ultra Senior Member
    • Sep 2001
    • 3159

    #2
    Leslie -

    It's a cool feature, alright. Not only good for a dialog boost with the center channel, but pretty useful for the subwoofer, too. For instance, if they had an RDC-7, folks disappointed with the bass on the Jurassic Park DTS DVD could just pump up the sub's level a few db with a quick couple of button pushes and save having to send the disc back for exchange. :>)

    Burke

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