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Not being 20-something, I can't speak for them, but for me: A lot of dialog is mixed way down in relation to the music and background noise, actors tend to spe
by AlbertCory 4y ago
Not being 20-something, I can't speak for them, but for me:
A lot of dialog is mixed way down in relation to the music and background noise, actors tend to speed up and drop the volume at the ends of their sentences, and of course there are those pesky accents.
I'm seeing a lot of other good reasons in this thread, too.
- balderdash 4y agoI think it’s this, if you want to have the volume at a level where conversations are understandable, the action scenes or other “high tension” moments are way too loud, and you spend your evening ride the volume control…
- ryandrake 4y agoYea, this is our family too. Volume button up and down, up and down, for 3 hours. I don't recall this being a problem with older movies, either. I feel like maybe modern moviemakers have access to sound pipelines with crazy vast dynamic range, and audio engineers feel they have to use every setting from "mouse quiet" to "nuclear bomb" in order to do their jobs right.
- fleventynine 4y agoThe best thing I ever did for my den was put one of these between the TV and the speakers: https://www.fmraudio.com/rnc.html https://www.fmraudio.com/rnc.html Twiddle a few knobs and now everything is the same volume and I can keep it at a nice low level and not wake the kids, but still hear everything.
- AlbertCory 4y agoInteresting. Audacity has various compression settings. Have you tried that?
- fleventynine 4y agoSure, but my TV can't run Audacity :)
- AlbertCory 4y agoAdmittedly I haven't tried this so probably misguided, but if you can stick that box in front of the TV, could you not put a computer instead?
- fleventynine 4y agoYes, a computer with a good low-noise ad/da converter can be an excellent compressor. But it's likely to be much more expensive than a used RNC.
- stubish 4y agoOne cause of this is sending 5.1 audio through two speakers, where the center channel just gets dropped along with a lot of dialog. Another cause is of course crappy mixing.
- knaik94 4y agoI have never seen software or receivers that drops the center channel instead of doing a proper downmix. The exception is when the user has incorrectly set up the speakers to identify as 5.1 when they have only a 2.0 or 2.1 setup.