I got Philips speakers (5 speakers) and I can barely hear anything from the back 2 speakers. the front 2 are working fine but i can barely hear a thing from the ones in the back. I tried changing the speaker setup in the audio options but it keeps putting it back at 7.1 I think I need 5.1 but it won't let me change and when i do manage to change it (without exiting the audio options) the back 2 speakers still barely work.Please helppp!!!!!
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are new to surround sound. The rear speakers aren't supposed to play all the time. The purpose of surround sound is not to to give you multiple speakers around the room tha all play the same level of sound, but to give you multiple speakers, all playing sound independently in order to give you a realistic sound experiance. What you should be witnessing is something like this: Center Channel - This speaker is used primarily for dialogue. Almost everything that people say on the TV screen will come from this speaker. Front L and R - These speakers produce most of the sound effects coming from on the screen, such as explosions, doors opening and closing, etc. If you can see the event happening on the television screen, you can bet that your front speakers will be playing those noises. Rear L and R - These speakers are used for off-screen sounds. For instance, if in a movie, a phone rings off in the distance and can't been seen on the TV screen. This is where your rear speakers come in. They are there to help give the sound stage depth. They also usually play the sound track music with the front L and R speakers, since the soundtrack music isn't coming from a specific location. Think of the last time you watched a movie in a movie theater. You didn't hear all of the sound coming from all directions at once. Instead, you heard the actors voices coming from the screen. You heard soundtrack music coming from everywhere. And you heard different sound effects coming from different locations, sometimes from the left, sometimes from the right, sometimes front, and sometimes rear. This is exactly how your home theater speakers should sound. That's actually why they call them home THEATER systems.
