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Has a movie creator explained the shift to incompressible dialogue coupled with obnoxiously loud music and effects and stuff. It's really annoying but strangely

Has a movie creator explained the shift to incompressible dialogue coupled with obnoxiously loud music and effects and stuff. It's really annoying but strangely persistent so ther must be a very concerned effort

acuozzo 5y ago
High dynamic range sound mixes have been with us for a long time. Have you ever watched Lawrence of Arabia in a movie theater? If you do the mixdown to stereo poorly and/or refuse to compress the DR and then play the result from built-in TV speakers I guarantee that you won't be able to hear the dialogue at an acceptable volume even though the film is from 1962 and features clearly-spoken lines from former professional stage actors.
pessimizer 5y ago
I think it's the interpretation/bias of louder as better/clearer. If the sound effects are louder, they're seen as better. This bias even works on the small scale when testing audiophiles: You play them a sample of music twice but tell them the sound is coming from two different sources. If you play one sample slightly louder than the other, they'll identify it as coming from from a higher-quality system. Sound people complain about compression (muddy), not wide dynamic range (drama and depth.)
- brokenmachine 5y ago
  This is well-known and one reason some audiofools are rightfully laughed at for not doing when comparing speakers or cables or whatever they want to wax lyrical with flowery descriptions about. All AB testing of audio equipment should be done with volume matched. Even 0.1dB difference can skew results I believe. Also the switching should be as quick as possible because auditory memory is short. More bass also corresponds to better reported listening tests. Harman did a lot of great blind testing on this and came up with preferred frequency response curves and speaker characteristics (smooth directivity rolloff and a target in-room response).

acuozzo 5y ago

High dynamic range sound mixes have been with us for a long time. Have you ever watched Lawrence of Arabia in a movie theater? If you do the mixdown to stereo poorly and/or refuse to compress the DR and then play the result from built-in TV speakers I guarantee that you won't be able to hear the dialogue at an acceptable volume even though the film is from 1962 and features clearly-spoken lines from former professional stage actors.

pessimizer 5y ago

I think it's the interpretation/bias of louder as better/clearer. If the sound effects are louder, they're seen as better. This bias even works on the small scale when testing audiophiles: You play them a sample of music twice but tell them the sound is coming from two different sources. If you play one sample slightly louder than the other, they'll identify it as coming from from a higher-quality system. Sound people complain about compression (muddy), not wide dynamic range (drama and depth.)

brokenmachine 5y ago
This is well-known and one reason some audiofools are rightfully laughed at for not doing when comparing speakers or cables or whatever they want to wax lyrical with flowery descriptions about. All AB testing of audio equipment should be done with volume matched. Even 0.1dB difference can skew results I believe. Also the switching should be as quick as possible because auditory memory is short. More bass also corresponds to better reported listening tests. Harman did a lot of great blind testing on this and came up with preferred frequency response curves and speaker characteristics (smooth directivity rolloff and a target in-room response).