You mention re-calibrating ARC, so am I to assume that you are running an Anthem receiver or pre-amp?

It would be far better off if you are, to provide a copy of the speaker calibration printout. as it's run in Windows, if you load something like CutePDF if you don't have a pdf print or aren't running windows 10.

From the few times that I have played with ARC, I found that the defaults didn't even come close to letting the speaker run as full frequency. There is quite a bit of configuration that you can do inside of ARC. For dialog you will need to give your center speaker a bump around the 120hz to 220hz. it could be that your room is sucking those frequencies down and your are loosing your dialog as a result of that.


Anthem: AVM60, Fosi DAC-Q5
Axiom: ADA1500, LFR1100 Actiive, QS8, EP500, M3, M3comp, M5