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Several posters are talking about theater sound being a great thing, but I think it's miserable: basically a volume war, which my ears are going to lose. How ca
by appleflaxen 9y ago
Several posters are talking about theater sound being a great thing, but I think it's miserable: basically a volume war, which my ears are going to lose. How can theaters get by with such loud volumes, when a work site would be shut down by OSHA if the workers didn't have hearing protection.
There is obviously an issue of how long you're exposed, but no theater should be allowed to push the volume into the range where hearing loss could possibly occur.
And in the case of Netflix... it's never an issue because I control my volume.
- goostavos 9y agoMy local AMC plays movies so loud that I can hear the dialog for some movies through the walls in an entirely different theater. It's kind of the ubiquitous theater experience for me now to just have some kind of foreign noise going on -- people crunching popcorn, talking to each other, or, the most absurd, another movie that is not the movie I'm watching. So, yeah, bring on the death of the theater, please.
- some-guy 9y agoI agree, mainstream theater sound is absolutely awful. IMAX is one of the most uncomfortable experiences out there. Local theaters in my area with smaller screens tend to not be as ridiculously loud.