Heres my settings for the 770. Keep in mind, this is for a room about 10x12ft and i prefer to have more omph in my sound. I like to feel it. If its too much bass for you, just turn down the sub. but i find the sub and bass from the bar have to be at least 60% if you really want to feel the sound and have it come to life in movies. Anything less than 4 bass on the bar and it really starts to thin out the sound too much. 4 is just perfect. Dont play the sub past 10 cause it distorts at high volumes, but at 9 and below you can run it at very high volume and no distorting.
level - DRC - off
Tone - bass - 4, treble - 6
Audio - sync - on, dual - main, AAV - on, effect - on. The AAV is essential to have on because it boosts the voice and mid range considerably when playing at low volumes. Otherwise, everything will be muffled.
HDMI - control - on, passthrough - auto, ARC - on
On remote:
Soundfield: movie for every input. Movie and game sound near identical except the voices are a tad crisper in movie.
voice - 2
Sub level - 8 out of 12.
With these settings, i play an action movie and it rumbles my walls nicely. One of the best scenes i tested with is from the avengers. Dont remember the scene number, but the scene has a nice full range bass drop and with these settings you can feel it hit your gut nicely. If you want to test out what your sub is capable of, scenes with bass drops are one of the best ways to do that cause it starts off at a higher frequency bass note then rolls through and ends at the lowest frequnecy. On cheap or less powerful subs it will bottom out near the end because its not capable handling that frequency, and on really good higher end subs it will hit as low as the sub is capable of 20-23hz.
Also, insidious has a scene as well with a full range bass drop. I used that as well when testing. I was very impressed how deep the sony hit in those scenes. This sony sub is a very capable sub.
When did you buy yours? The sony needs at least 50-60 hours to fully break in. Out of the box, it sounds like garbage, even when tweaked. But once its broken in, the sound really opens up, night and day difference. Fully break it in, then tweak it is what i would suggest cause theres no point listening to it when its not fully opened up.
level - DRC - off
Tone - bass - 4, treble - 6
Audio - sync - on, dual - main, AAV - on, effect - on. The AAV is essential to have on because it boosts the voice and mid range considerably when playing at low volumes. Otherwise, everything will be muffled.
HDMI - control - on, passthrough - auto, ARC - on
On remote:
Soundfield: movie for every input. Movie and game sound near identical except the voices are a tad crisper in movie.
voice - 2
Sub level - 8 out of 12.
With these settings, i play an action movie and it rumbles my walls nicely. One of the best scenes i tested with is from the avengers. Dont remember the scene number, but the scene has a nice full range bass drop and with these settings you can feel it hit your gut nicely. If you want to test out what your sub is capable of, scenes with bass drops are one of the best ways to do that cause it starts off at a higher frequency bass note then rolls through and ends at the lowest frequnecy. On cheap or less powerful subs it will bottom out near the end because its not capable handling that frequency, and on really good higher end subs it will hit as low as the sub is capable of 20-23hz.
Also, insidious has a scene as well with a full range bass drop. I used that as well when testing. I was very impressed how deep the sony hit in those scenes. This sony sub is a very capable sub.
Its the voice clarity that kills this out of the box. With voice at 1 its too sutle and with the voice at 3 its too sharp and bright. I really wish sony had 4 levels for the voice setting because 2 is good but it has to be tweaked. Voice 2 is really the only option to use and you have to have the treble on higher levels or else your voices will sound muffled. When i first bought mine, i was so dissapointed by the voice clarity that i just about returned it on the 3rd day.
When did you buy yours? The sony needs at least 50-60 hours to fully break in. Out of the box, it sounds like garbage, even when tweaked. But once its broken in, the sound really opens up, night and day difference. Fully break it in, then tweak it is what i would suggest cause theres no point listening to it when its not fully opened up.