Hello!

I have the following setup:

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- Kodi (NVidia Shield as a streaming client Windows 10 as a streaming server). "Audio passthrough" is on.

- Two JBL 220 Speakers and a JBL 225C center, which I've added recently

- Yamaha RX-V675 AVR

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The problem I'm experiencing are low voices when playing movies with DTS audio, while other sounds like gun shots or footsteps are incredibly loud.

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I've ran the YPAO calibration after adding the center and it made some settings, which I cannot understand:

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a) All speakers were set to „large“. This is not the case: the speakers have 4' woofers.

QUESTION 1: I cannot change the setting for the two front speakers manually. The editing options are greyed out.

QUESTION 2: I can change the center size from „large“ to „small“. Should I go with „small“ or does it make no difference?

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b) The speakers levels were changed by YPAO to the following:

LEFT: 0.0 db

RIGHT: 1.5 db

CENTER: -2.0 db

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I’ve corrected the levels to the following:

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LEFT: -1.0 db

RIGHT: 0.5 db

CENTER: 4.5 db

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As you can see, I’ve raised the center levels quite a lot and the voices are a little bit louder now.

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QUESTION 3: Is it common to raise the center level so much? Do I loose sound quality by correcting the value so much (because of distortion)?

QUESTION 4: I feel that the volume of the voices is still a little bit too low. What options do I have? Adaptive DRC is already on. Should I reduce the levels for the left and right channel, while raising the master volume?