Hi there. I bought the Beam with the intention of then getting sub and two surrounds for a 5.1 system. The problem I am having with the Beam is muffled speech, bad enough that I cannot understand even with high volume.
I have Samsung Q70 TV and it's passing through Dolby 5.1 (Dolby 2.0 on channels that are not outputting 5.1) from Sky Q box. I also have Android box and Apple TV. Speech is the same on all. Ido not get any problems using TV speakers, or a cheap Samsung sound bar.
I have tried just about all settings and tuned with Trueplay, but speech still completely muffled and cannot understand anything without turning the volume rediculously high and even then, other sounds drown speech out. Reading internet forums, this seems very common. Some have said adding sub and surrounds really helps. My question is, does anyone have experience of the muffled speech problem and does the sub and surrounds really make a big difference?
This week I'll either be adding Sonos sub and surrounds, or writing Sonos off and getting myself a different system. At the moment, I'm thinking different system as my Beam experience has been really poor and not sure it's worth spending another grand as an experiment to see if I have actually hear any dialogue. Could it be that my Beam is faulty, there are so many positive reviews for Sonos? But also many reviews with similar problems..
Many thanks
Dave
