Rear speaker quiet?

spacemissing

Check the settings on your equipment to make sure you have it in a surround-sound mode. Next, play material that has surround content. Mono won't do, and some so-called "stereo" material has little or no channel separation, so it won't do much. Discrete surround, such as DTS or Dolby Digital, would be best. Additionally, the surround speakers usually won't be as loud as the fronts unless there is something going on "behind" you, such as a helicopter approaching from that apparent direction. Only under special circumstances should the rear be as loud as the front is at the same time.

AVDADDY

You don't appear to understand the concept of surround sound. The rear speakers aren't there to play the same sounds as the front speakers. Educate yourself::https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/home-theater3.htm

Lance

Are you using the original speakers ? Speakers for units such as yours tend to be non traditional , and as such will be more efficient and play louder with less power...Substituting traditional bookshelf speakers will considerably diminish the output volume....it might also be that you have the speakers reversed that you have the front speakers where the rears should be and the rears where the front should be ..Try reversing speakers if the problem follows the speakers then you might have broken speakers involved; if the problem stays with the rear channel then you might have a blown capacitor or resistor somewhere in the rear circuit or your settings might be stereo only.

Robert J: See the user manual here: http

See the user manual here: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/f/fw-p78_33/fw-p78_33_dfu_eng.pdf Do the rear speakers work OK when you use the "Test tone" and balance procedure on page 8 of the manual? If they do, make sure you have Dolby pro logic mode enabled [Dolby surround] - see page 9. That is probably the only mode that will produce any real "real" audio. Most so-called stereo music made for the last few decades has been Pro-logic encoded, so you should get full surround audio on the majority of music etc. If you look at the other mode options on that page, none use the rear speakers.

Patrick

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almamun

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inconsolate61

Recovered ambient sound is normally quite low, On actual theater films or surround encoded recordings, should only be present when the engineer decides to use it and quite often, only for special effects. Normally, rear channels are not supposed to call attention to themselves.

roberto

for 89 bucks,a lot of sound for the money,you might ad a used reciever from an upscale used audio viz shop,get a couple rca both ends auxillary cable,,,make more sound

Hamza

2 front speakers. And also it was a kit. So all of the speakers go with this receiver