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[QUOTE=&quot;Lee, post: 1727, member: 301&quot;]Replying to myself....Well, after posting the above, I googled hissing dtv converter and found this thread at consumer reports: <a href="http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2008/08/issues-with-dis.html">Issues with Dish's DTVPal DTV converters?: Consumer Reports Electronics Blog</a>If you scroll down three comments and read the one by DW, he talks about hiss being related to low audio signal.&nbsp; Well, bingo, one of the things that maddens me about this converter is now I need to use THREE remotes to run my TV: the TV remote and the VCR remote to power them up and the DTV remote to control it. I had initially set the TV volume&nbsp; fairly low because I'm a night owl and when I watch at night, I keep it quiet for the rest of the family sleeping. Then during normal viewing hours, I'd turn up the volume using the converter.So I decided to fiddle with the volume settings. I reset the volume higher on the TV remote (to exactly one half volume) and then adjusted it via the converter remote (also to about one half volume) and voila -- the hiss has receded A LOT! Enough that it is definitely something we can live with.&nbsp; I am now able to get the sound low enough that it won't bother others late at night and I can also get it loud enough that you can hear it well in the noiseiest situations we have.&nbsp; So that was the fix for me. I will say that it's still going to be a problem, a reduction in quality when the time comes to watch a great concert or other music on TV. At those times, I like to crank the volume up and rock out. That is not going to happen using these settings. And if I try to increase the volume on the TV in order to make it louder, the hiss returns. So it seems the only workable volume is half for both TV and converter and we will lose a lot of the maximum volume range we had with just the TV. We don't have our TV connected to the audio setup and don't have &quot;home theater&quot; -- those options sound nice but honestly, I don't want to do any more cable connections. So instead our TV is pretty high end with great speakers and settings to give really wonderful output even at high volume levels. I'd estimate we lose about a third of that volume capability with this converter box.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Lee, post: 1727, member: 301"]Replying to myself.... Well, after posting the above, I googled hissing dtv converter and found this thread at consumer reports: [url=http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2008/08/issues-with-dis.html]Issues with Dish's DTVPal DTV converters?: Consumer Reports Electronics Blog[/url] If you scroll down three comments and read the one by DW, he talks about hiss being related to low audio signal. Well, bingo, one of the things that maddens me about this converter is now I need to use THREE remotes to run my TV: the TV remote and the VCR remote to power them up and the DTV remote to control it. I had initially set the TV volume fairly low because I'm a night owl and when I watch at night, I keep it quiet for the rest of the family sleeping. Then during normal viewing hours, I'd turn up the volume using the converter. So I decided to fiddle with the volume settings. I reset the volume higher on the TV remote (to exactly one half volume) and then adjusted it via the converter remote (also to about one half volume) and voila -- the hiss has receded A LOT! Enough that it is definitely something we can live with. I am now able to get the sound low enough that it won't bother others late at night and I can also get it loud enough that you can hear it well in the noiseiest situations we have. So that was the fix for me. I will say that it's still going to be a problem, a reduction in quality when the time comes to watch a great concert or other music on TV. At those times, I like to crank the volume up and rock out. That is not going to happen using these settings. And if I try to increase the volume on the TV in order to make it louder, the hiss returns. So it seems the only workable volume is half for both TV and converter and we will lose a lot of the maximum volume range we had with just the TV. We don't have our TV connected to the audio setup and don't have "home theater" -- those options sound nice but honestly, I don't want to do any more cable connections. So instead our TV is pretty high end with great speakers and settings to give really wonderful output even at high volume levels. I'd estimate we lose about a third of that volume capability with this converter box.[/QUOTE]

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