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Hungryjack
May 9, 2003

I hate it when I'm watching TV in the front room and my wife is in bed because I'm trying to hear dialogue on the center channel and then someone gets shot or an engine revs and the whole house shakes because I have to have the volume jacked up. or else it gets too quiet to hear the dialogue that is coming out of the center channel. Then my wife gets pissed and bitches at me to come to bed, but I don't want to come to bed. I want to watch TV.

Is there any general advice for this or would I need to go into detail on my setup?

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Hungryjack
May 9, 2003

King Hotpants posted:

Raise the level on your center channel? I assume your receiver can do that.

That would be far too easy :) OK, I'll dig out the manual and jack with the settings.

OK, here's another quick one:

I have a receiver in my front room for my home theater (A) and a receiver in my computer room for my computer (B) and a receiver in my garage for working out there and BBQs and such (C).

I have stereo RCA cables strung through my attic connecting these three receivers together in a mesh topology so that I can tune any of them in to whichever source is playing on the other. This is nice for streaming web music out to my living room or listening to the game when friends are over and I'm outside turning the steaks.

My challenge is that my home theater receiver is my best receiver and it does not convert audio between sources (RCA/digital coax/optical) and so unless the source I want to hear is hooked up via RCA, there will be no sound.

Is there a box that I can run an optical sound into, a digital coaxial into, and RCA stereo into and it will convert and put out sound to the RCA cables? Alternately, could I also hook up all of my audio sources via RCA in addition to their current hookups and get the same result?

Hmm, help me out on option 1 and I'll try option 2 tonight when I get home.

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