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More control over volume levels?
palmer6strings:
Ya my tv doesn't. It's about an 9 year old 32" Vizio. (Which its about time to replace that too. Starting to get shadows on the screen) Lol
But ya, if I really wanted to go hardcore, I would just go to my local music shop and order everything to have like a mini movie theater in my house and have about a 70 band EQ. Buuuuuuut that's a good 3 grand right there.
I was just curious how everyone else felt because I know even while playing my games I have to turn the music down to about 50%, SFX to about 70%, and have voice all the way up to 100% just for it to sound right to me. I'm just saying that videos should be that way too.
--- Quote from: sheep2001 on September 11, 2015, 04:55:22 PM ---funnily enough, we watched interstellar last night, on blu-Ray, and the sound mixing on it was appalling. We both really struggled to hear the dialogue. And that's through a decent Sony home cinema amp. If anyone hasn't seen it yet, don't bother, apart from the terrible sound mixing, the script is awful, and story full of holes. Biggest disappointment in a sci fi film since independance day.
But back on topic, I never had a problem hearing the dialogue with the Harry potters.
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I now know not to watch Interstellar lol.
Like the movie Parallels. It was good and so was the sound... But when the movie was over I was like WTF?! What's going on??? So many things left unanswered...
TDIRunner:
I should mention that out of the box, I had trouble hearing voices in my movies as well. That was corrected simply by adjusting the volume on my center channel speaker. I have Sony equipment which comes with the auto calibration mic. I used that first which gets the setup pretty close to what I want, and I make minor adjustments from there (with the biggest change to the center channel speaker). You can get a decent sound systems for a good price these days. It might not stack up to a $3k system, but it will still be better than what you have now.
Keep in mind that TV speakers tend to be pretty crappy. Out of the three TVs setup in my house, every single one has the TV speakers set to "off."
Araden64:
I'm the same way, I always have subtitles on because i can't hear voices no matter what i watch, in game i usually can get away by increasing the voice audio but I still have subtitles on.
I need to fit some surround sound money in my budget lol
FritzWhite:
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on September 11, 2015, 04:59:21 PM ---I should mention that out of the box, I had trouble hearing voices in my movies as well. That was corrected simply by adjusting the volume on my center channel speaker. I have Sony equipment which comes with the auto calibration mic. I used that first which gets the setup pretty close to what I want, and I make minor adjustments from there (with the biggest change to the center channel speaker). You can get a decent sound systems for a good price these days. It might not stack up to a $3k system, but it will still be better than what you have now.
Keep in mind that TV speakers tend to be pretty crappy. Out of the three TVs setup in my house, every single one has the TV speakers set to "off."
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I bought a 55 inch LG a few months back. I love it to pieces, but the sound is atrocious. I'm debating on whether to get 1 sound bar, or to do a surround type set up. I'm worried a cat will chew up the wires.
palmer6strings:
They make some pretty good wireless 5.1 surround sound systems. Less wires that way.