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[–] 23 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    What if, hear me out, they changed the format a bit to supply 2 separate audio tracks. One for voice, one for effects. Then we could adjust it ourselves.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    They kinda do that with surround. Dialogue is mostly isolated to the center speaker.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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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