Compressed audio to Blu-ray quality sounds muffled

Hello!
I am having difficulties keeping the audio quality of a HQ video, edited in Final Cut Pro, after compressing it with Compressor 4 to Blu-ray quality.
In Compressor 4 I used Dolby Digital Professional option for audio (ac-3) but after compressing, the audio sounds smothered/muffled in comparison to the original.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
I have tried many things, including making the sound level higher in FCP before sending in to Compressor and changing the audio settings in Compressor quite some times.
Please help!

Try this: In the Inspector>Encoder pane>Audio, set Dialogue Normalization to -31 and in the Preprocessing pane, choose None for Compression Preset. Otherwise, experiment with different Compression Presets.
Good luck.
Russ

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