Do you know if the default speaker settings on the player are "Large" or "Small"? I think I will play around with this some more tomorrow. I am very pleased with the sound it is outputting so far, but why not try to make it even better!

Mine are at Large.

I did some testing with an SPL meter and it looks like this is correct.

I used CoR SD-DVD version and the HD-DVD version and the volume is essentially the same between the two if I use -16dB on the SD version and -21dB on the HD version.

To me, the HD version sounds like it has a little more range so that the quiet parts (like talking) are slightly lower than the SD version, but the loud parts are a little louder or the same. I guess that's why it peaks.

I will have to get a better sub, though. I turned it OFF for the SPL test because it would dominate the SPLs-- all of my speakers are full range anyway with pretty good bass response. Basically, the bass is tight and super clean through the MLs, but when I add the sub, it muddies things up considerably (compared to the MLs). I've got it set to only play below 70 Hz. But the real problem is even at 30% volume, the sub sounds like its almost bottoming out with the HD version.

I know of a better sub. Seriously, if you are running MLs, you need a serious sub to match up. Something powerful, deep, fast, accurate....Maybe a Descent. Or something even better for 1/3 of the price.

Flashburn,
You should have your speakers set to Small and the sub to on. That is the standard setting for most people. Unless you have some serious front speakers like Whispers or Martin Logans. This certainly may be the source of your difference at 2 houses. Setting each channel/speaker to Small means all the LFE signals from that channel will go to the sub output. Some discs have most of the bass/LFE in the 5 regular channels instead of in the LFE .1 channel, and if you have it set wrong you'll be missing lots of bass. DTS tracks are famous for this, I'm not really sure how DD+ is being encoded.

Nice response from Toshiba above. It's almost like this machine is...I don't know....first generation or something. OTOH, it is tricky to get analog multichannel going. Seems like this is the first time for most people, there are bound to be some growing pains. HT equipment is getting more and more like a computer, you have to gain a fair amount of knowledge just to plug the damn things in, now.

I'll try setting them to small and see what happens then. However, then this means the only difference between the two setups was the receiver and that I set the distances on my setup. But, since my speakers are set to Large, according to what you said, I would be MISSING bass, and as my windows shaking can testify to, is contrary to the fact. It was with my dads setup (Paradigms and Velodyne sub) that he was lacking LFE.




edit: I tried setting my speakers to "Small" and that led to me having barely any LFE output. Everything else sounded the same, so I think I am going to stick with the speaker size set to "Large".

Exactly. I believe the manual states it should be set to large (although without it in front of me, I could be mistaken).