• SirLeToet@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    They often claim you need a proper audio setup.

    I have an expensive (be it old) surround sound setup. Marvel and many other modern movies suck absolute arse. Having to pause and fiddle with volume going from a barely audible conversation to deafening noise in a single scene.

    Fuck that noise, audio seems optimized for smartphone speakers nowadays.

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          13 hours ago

          Which is why it sounds bad, because 99% of the audience is watching on a stereo TV they got at Wal-mart.

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            4 hours ago

            Even with decent amps and good speakers and all leveled some movies suck, a lot of shows suck and it’s a random crapshoot what works. Older movies work well.

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      Fuck that noise, audio seems optimized for smartphone speakers nowadays.

      No, it’s optimized for 42-speaker, billion-watt Imax screens. Where I have to wear earplugs.

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        13 hours ago

        We went to the re-airing of interstellar on imax. The sound when the ship was getting hammered with hail was so loud my ears were ringing and we left. Making movies painful should not be the point.

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          Same. I never saw it when I had an original run in the theater and was so excited for the re-release. Couldn’t get to one of the true film IMAX showings of it, but went to an IMAX theater and oh my God did they just have the damn sound cranked… So muddy, so loud. Makes me appreciate my home theater that much more…

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      17 hours ago

      Boost your center channel and/or enable dialogue enhancer.

      Won’t help with Marvel movies (their mixing sucks ass) but most others.

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        13 hours ago

        Let me find the center channel setting on my two speaker stereo real quick.

        Movies from the 90s and prior sound perfectly fine even with loud explosions and whispers and a large dynamic range. Today’s mixes are just straight up dog shit.

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          9 hours ago

          that would be the occasion to find the [enable dialogue enhancer] setting (or a reasonable facsimile, mine is called the same) in the tv. if you have a center channel, leave it off.