Hi,
( Not a busy forum these days but ), I looked at your mdat file ( thanks for that ) and it's clear that you have a very ( very ) live room needing a bunch of treatment .
It's little wonder that you have a problem understanding dialog when the room's RT60's are in their current range . ( Your preferred high level of sub-bass exacerbates the situation ) .
Here's a white paper ( written by 2 acousticians ) that lay out some room performance goals after treatments ( mostly for 2-chnl sound > though I consider these goals quite applicable to multi-chnl as well ) .
Acoustic Frontier's Acoustic Measurements Standards pdf
I've also attached ( below ) another useful pdf created by an enthusiastic REW user ( many good references on the back-page ) .
Finally, HTS member jtalden has helped users align many subs ( though he is lately MIA ) / I suggest you do a search for his name ( and scour the results for his participation in alignment threads ).
- He's definitely the go-to guy around here for common-sense alignments .

( Not a busy forum these days but ), I looked at your mdat file ( thanks for that ) and it's clear that you have a very ( very ) live room needing a bunch of treatment .
It's little wonder that you have a problem understanding dialog when the room's RT60's are in their current range . ( Your preferred high level of sub-bass exacerbates the situation ) .
Here's a white paper ( written by 2 acousticians ) that lay out some room performance goals after treatments ( mostly for 2-chnl sound > though I consider these goals quite applicable to multi-chnl as well ) .
Acoustic Frontier's Acoustic Measurements Standards pdf
I've also attached ( below ) another useful pdf created by an enthusiastic REW user ( many good references on the back-page ) .
Finally, HTS member jtalden has helped users align many subs ( though he is lately MIA ) / I suggest you do a search for his name ( and scour the results for his participation in alignment threads ).
- He's definitely the go-to guy around here for common-sense alignments .