Keep hearing voices through back surround sound speakers

[simulcra]

I have a Sony BDV-N590 5.1 surround sound setup connected to my TV through ARC. In my settings I seem to have all of the right settings in place. For example, in 'Audio Settings' my 'Sound Effect' is set to 'Sound Mode On'. My 'Audio Output' is 'Speaker+HDMI'. 

However, when I play anything in 5.1 there seems to be a variation of different things happening to the speakers on different settings but I never get the right one. 

For example, when I have the 'Sound Mode' on 'Auto', I get voices and sound coming out of all the speakers (including the back two) - I don't think this should be the case? When I have the setting on 'Demo Sound', I don't get any sound out of the back speakers at all. 

If I set the 'Sound Effect' to 'Dolby Pro Logic', I get the surround sound working out of the back speakers, however, the voices only come out of the centre speaker. I don't get any out of the front right and left speaker. 

Can anyone help me?

[Peter_S.]

Hi simulcra,

Setting the sound effect to "Dolby Pro Logic" seems to be the correct setting. It is normal that the voices are coming from the centre speaker only.

Cheers

Peter

[IamNic]

Hello @simulcra,

as @Peter_S. already commented, dialog coming from the center speaker only is normal - that is how the audio for most movies is mixed.

- Nic

[simulcra]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately when I do this, I get no sound out of the front two speakers at all. 

I don't really know why? 

Simulcra. 

[Win_88]

Hi @simulcra

What if you set Audio output to speakers and the Sound effect to Off?

Win_88