Bad sound when watching movies etc..

Hi,
I bought an Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter Cable @ ebay a while back, and recently Ive started using it with my macbook air (running OS X Mountain Lion)
I have this hooked up to my receiver and the image quality is superb, but the sound is not that great..
I often use to watch movies (.mkv files) and all movies have very poor sound quality. Even when its DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1..
Have someone experienced something like this?

Anyone ???? I doubt I am the only one who have had this problem..

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