I just got the S760D today. Hooked it up to the optical out of my Samsung TV. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but the sound is really soft. It's night time and I've got the volume all the way to 60, and I'm not worried that my neighbours are gonna complain. This just doesn't seem to be right. All the reviews I've read on this speaker claim massive sound.

The TV model is UA65KU6000, I've got the TV sound setting to audio output and PCM. The reason I put it on PCM is when I hooked the system up, it was by default in Dolby Digital, and the vocals were very muffled. It sounded like the vocals were being played only by the subwoofer. The only way I could get the vocals of the TV show I was watching to sound normal was to set output as PCM on the TV, and 2.1 (Dolby Digital off) on the speakers. If I turned DD on, I got the same muffled vocals.

So to recap, there are 2 issues:

1) Volume is much MUCH lower than what I heard this speaker is capable of.

2) Vocals are muffled on any setting other than PCM (from TV) and 2.1 (on speaker).
Someone plea se help me. What am I missing / doing wrong?

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First, an update. The 2nd issue seems to have fixed itself. I'm now getting proper volume for the vocals on both 5.1 Dolby Pro Logic (I mistakenly said Dolby Digital in my first post) as well as 2.1 (DPL switched off). When I hooked it up it was playing Life Story from Netflix, which is not encoded in 5.1. That may have been the issue - the encoding of the source material - which cut the vocals out from everything but the subwoofer. David Attenborough sounded like he had Barry White's vocal chords transplanted into him. When I later tried the movie Book of Eli, also off Netflix, and which is encoded in 5.1, everything was great.

To answer your Q yes, there is a 3rd option on the TV, DTS 2:5. Tried it, and it also is giving me all the correct frequencies from each speaker.

HOWEVER, the volume still seems a little soft. Now when I say "soft", it's taking into account all the stuff I've heard about this speaker. It's actually loud enough that I can feel the bass and the room is filled with sound when turned all the way up to 60 (max volume). I just thought it would be louder, is all. I'm just wondering if there is a run in period for new speakers, during which the amp doesn't give full volume. To protect or run in the speakers, maybe?

Either that or I'm getting deaf from all the abuse growing up playing with SPL car audios