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And how about movies. I am as much a fan as anyone of having the highest quality home theater experience possible, but some movies (generally the ones with the
by baddox 8y ago
And how about movies. I am as much a fan as anyone of having the highest quality home theater experience possible, but some movies (generally the ones with the highest quality audio mixes) are impossible to listen to in my apartment (while being a decent neighbor) without using dynamic range compression.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoGood point. What works great in the cinema gives a home play needing subtitles for the quiet parts or it'll take the windows out later.
- tremon 8y agoBut as the parent says, these can be applied after-the-fact (in most modern movie players it's called "night mode"). This doesn't mean the original recording has to be shipped with deteriorated sound. In a way, loudness compression is like a hash function: the operation itself is largely mechanical, but destroys information in the process. Shipping with good-quality audio should be the default, and let compression be applied on playback. In fact, most home theatre systems already do sound post-processing in the form of room correction anyway (Audyssey, Dirac), so why not the let player do the compression?
- baddox 8y agoI don’t disagree, although I wish movies would ship with a professional audio mix with lower dynamic range, since that would be a lot better than the often noticeable compression built into receivers and playback devices.
- meawaythrow 8y agoI might be part of the problem but I agree. I find it disconcerting having to turn the volume on my headphones up to 50% or higher just to hear a movie when that amount of amplification on music or standard Youtube content would blow my eardrums out... and occasionally almost does when I forget I had my volume turned up.