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Promising diagnosis, manual isn't helping

Posted by author@escapeclause.net on August 25, 2007 at 06:00:12:
So far, of all the forums where I've asked this question, this is the most intriguing possibility because it's something that would effect a major change in the way the signal is being handled out the back of the DVD-player. I can toggle "sleep modes" and "virtual surround speakers" and "dynamic range control", even fiddle with some quick changes to the room acoustics, and these things all make some difference -- but the sound still sounds really, REALLY wrong, even when I'm done. I don't know anything about this five-channel stuff (in case you haven't noticed) but the symptoms I'm having certainly sound more like what you'd hear of all of the center-channel signal was being dropped on the floor.

Two problems, however: first, I'm only running two channel stereo, and other posters in other forums have said, "If you're running two-channel analog audio cables from the DVD player, there's no way you can be dropping any of the channels on the floor because the down-mix is automatic (which doesn't seem consistent with my experience, but that's what they've said); and, second, I find no reference in the 77-page owners' manual to a "phantom mode" into which I could program it for proper handling of the missing center channel.