> When listening to a movie, I usually just accept that I have to turn on subtitles (even though my hearing is fine) and will have to read the dialog if I don't

> When listening to a movie, I usually just accept that I have to turn on subtitles (even though my hearing is fine) and will have to read the dialog if I don't want to wake up my kids with the house shaking when there's an on-screen explosion. Some audio receivers feature some kind of "baby's asleep" mode that boosts the center channel & vocal-range frequencies while suppressing everything else. Folks who don't want the real Theatrical Experience (which I think is actually most home viewers) probably ought to just leave that mode on all the time. An alternative for systems without that feature is to just manually boost the center channel.