Just installed a Yamaha 5.1 YHT-4950UBL home theater system and the sound is amazing compared to my old Sony soundbar.

Experimented with every DVD/Blu-Ray in my inventory that had interesting music or sound effects and all were excellent *except* for one annoying little anomaly.
While playing Disney's live action Aladdin, during the scene where Aladdin is introduced to Agraba w/great fanfare there's one point where two swords are clashed together.
On a friend's cheap Polk mini-system the sword clash is sharp & distinctive, exactly what you'd expect.
With the Yamaha it's muted and dull, almost non-existent.

I've tried every sound field and everything else I could think of but nothing seems to help.
Any ideas as to the cause and possible fixes? TIA!...

Tomac

Excessive variance in the frequency response of your speakers.

Any fixes for that? Thx!
ETA: I get the same anomely using the receiver's headphone jack, could this be corrected via EQ?

Tomac

reproducibility in headphones would essentially exclude the speakers being the source

That's what I was thinking. Used to be an ET in the Navy but that doesn't get me much past the hardware side of this.