Is it me, or does anyone else increase the volume on their televisions to numbers you've normally never had too when watching movies?
Is it me, or does anyone else increase the volume on their televisions to numbers you've normally never had too when watching movies?
My TV lets me use Bluetooth earbuds with it which is nice. But it's made me notice the inconsistencies between the volume levels of different channels and streaming services.
Not to mention a lot of modern shows and movies being extremely quiet during scenes with dialogue, and way too fricking loud during action scenes and when music is playing. I blame modern audio mixing and Dolby.
Very based James. Now you can kino while the bvll satisfies April
That's an odd thing to say out of nowhere
>what do you mean? don't you hear that dogwhistle? the cuck dogwhistle that only cucks can hear? Why can't anyone else hear it? It's so loud! And only cucks can hear it! So why am I the only one hearing it?
t. every person who posts shit like that
Someone wrote a big article about why audio sucks so much on everything. I noticed it on some movies, some Walking Dead eps even some HBO shit where I never had an issue.
Part of is that speakers on many modern LCD tvs are on the sides, behind or under where they fire out and are supposed to reflect.
Other is how things are audio-produced these days for a "wide range of devices" instead of say this is just for a movie theater, this is for a front-firing old CRT tv etc. My old Sony 36" Bravia LCD from 2006 had excellent audio. My Vizio a la 2019 not as much. I have to jack it up.
It makes perfect sense that shitty speakers will make speech harder to understand.
Part of the reason why I only use Genelec™ professional studio speakers to watch my movies!
Well these days you've got crappier speakers and drivers. When the poor buy a "75" LCD TV" at Wal-Mart or those upcoming Roku integrated shit tvs they're about to push it's no wonder they're that bad. I got a Sony back then specifically for the visual and sound quality and it lasted a good 12 years.
Roku TVs aren't new and they're pretty nice actually, at least for bedroom TVs.
I've had one they're still shit tier. It's a step about Hisense or Hitachi. The Walmart buyout will likely produce worse quality. There are plenty of affordable Sonys, Vizios or Samsungs for a bedroom etc.
I have no complaints with mine, given the price. It's nice that I can control it with the roku app on my phone and the private listening option to stream the audio to my earbuds via my phone is great.
The interface is not quite as snappy as having a dedicated Roku device, but it's not so slow it's a problem.
If you still use tv speakers you only have yourself to blame, they were never meant for anything beyond making indecipherable noise in a waiting room.
People have had TVs for 70 years and didn't have trouble hearing dialogue until now.
before flat panel tvs they had forward projecting speakers
Because until flat panels became the standard, you could fit decent sized speakers in most TV's. That's why soundbars became a thing. The companies just took what used to be included for your set and slapped it into another product you have to buy to get the full experience. It's basically DLC for your TV. We're probably a few years away from smart TV's locking you out of any functionality unless you subscribe to their service.
That's because movie audio is mixed for theaters.
Use VLC and set up the audio normalizer.
>he doesnt leave his volume on numbers ending in 0,2,5,or 8
homosexual detected
bro. i do this but do not know why.. 25, 50, 48, 62
For me the only acceptable levels are either even or prime numbers
get a soundbar. why would you watch a tv with bottom firing speakers no shit you cant hear it
Yea it's fricked up I've never owned a TV after about 2005 that I was truly satisfied with.
The displays themselves get better but every other user experience element gets worse.
I miss the days when I could change the channel and the channel would change, instead of having to wait sometimes a full second.
I don't want my TV to be a very shitty mobile phone computer, which they mostly are.
What's the most surprising is that the OS/UI is always laggy no matter the tv. I have never used a tv-streaming app and just a Roku/Chromecast or Nvidia Shield because they're that bad. A non-laggy UI would have been ideal at this point.
It's not the speakers it's the sound mixing
his post said nothing about audio
for me it's currently car radios
borrowed my mom's vehicle and it's got a fricking touchscreen thing for maps and music and phone connection.
Holy frick, it takes a solid 3 minutes to fire up and if someone left the radio loud you're waiting at least that 3 mins to turn it down.
I try to press a different radio station, it lags on me, and thinks i did a long press, overwriting the shortcut with my current station. The map has sat and refused to load for an entire 20 minute drive. It will loudly bing at you if you're connected device gets a message, it will put a huge popup on the screen giving you options for what to do... and no matter what you press it will say "NAW MAN CAN'T DO THAT WHILE THE VEHICLE'S MOVING"
So if I happen to get a text at the same time i'm trying to do something on screen that I'm allowed to do, like climate control shit, I have to wait the solid minute for the popup to go away by itself because interacting with it will make it take longer to disappear.
I am so fricking sick of this shit
>if you're connected device
oh no
I'm an ESL moron i guess
better kill myself
>I just caught you using your phone while driving, bucko, do you have any idea how illegal that is? A ticket? No no no its off to the pee pee poo poo rape dungeon for the rest of your life for this horrible crime.
>Oh you were just using the big frick off touch screen in the middle of your car that lags like a b***h and that you need to stare at to do anything because you can't actually feel the buttons or knobs? Well then drive on sir, have a nice day.
yeah shits mad moronic
>usually have it somewhere around 20
>some kinos force me to put it all the way to 40-50 to even hear the dialogue
>forget it's set that high and nearly shit myself when i watch something else
Tards will blame the speakers, but it's the shit audio mixing. I can play a movie from the 90s and hear perfectly fine, I can go to a theater and see a Nolan movie in the best audio setup money can buy and not hear a single clear word.
yep. First time i really noticed how bad it was was when I saw TDKR in theatres.
I flat out missed some dialogue because the music was overpowering it. It's one thing to have LOUD music and quiet conversation separate, but that flick had them concurrent with one another.
>We haDESHI to giDESHI with thBASARA and we BASARA
It is both.
Speakers suck with middle frequencies, but my dick is also almost 7 inches.
it's a combination of naturalistic "mumble acting" becoming the norm and audio mixers setting the center channel too low because muh autistic audiophile home theater setup
>muh autistic audiophile home theater setup
Don’t be poor. Kino with my surround sound system literally enhances it in ways where I can’t even enjoy watching tv at other people’s houses
No good movie has ever been made with anything other than monaural audio.
no, because I have a reciever and 7.2.4 surround like a non-pleb
>Watch a lot of youtube
>volume is consistent on 99% of videos
>watch literally any other streaming service
>constantly have to bring the volume up 50%
There's definitely something wrong with the audio, but it's across the board so there's probably some israeli trickery
>setting the volume on the TV
Wut?
Yes, I watch TV and streaming on volume 10, but need to go to 23 at least for films
Internal speakers on anything but high end sets suck ass these days. Both my living room and bedroom TVs are connected to external computer speakers because the default ones sound either inaudible or just really thin like a broken radio speaker.
Maybe it's just my ears but I remember on old CRTs the speakers sounded fine. A sound system used to be a bonus, now it's almost required to buy speakers or an overpriced sound bar.
Do you need more than a pair of Yamaha HS8s?
>everyone complains about they can't hear shit
>listening on the TV speaker in 2024
you people are unbelievable
>le sound bar shilling
TV speakers used to be serviceable until about five years ago. Again, sound systems were bonus if you were autistic audiophillia, now it's like what
said, they've monetized what was built in and adequate.
The transition from Plasma and CFL backlit LCDs to led backlit LCDs is what killed speakers. There just isn't room anymore in the thin monitors for half decent speakers.
This has coincided with MUH DYNAMIC RANGER Black person LITSTEN TO THIS DEAFENING STRINGS MUH CINEMATIC IMERSION that's negatively effected sound mixing. Put these things together and you have very bad audio in the modern era.
Most soundbars people like artificially boost the midrange where people are speaking. Even my old expensive center channel basically didn't make noise below 100hz driving at this same effect.
>TV speakers used to be serviceable until about five years ago
absolutely not
a stereo receive and two tower speakers are literally on another planet and can be got for like $200
I said "serviceable" and "adequate" you fricktard, not reference quality THX-tier. If you wanted that you invested into a receiver, a subwoofer, and external speakers. Built-in speakers weren't perfect but you could hear shit and it sounded fine. Now it's all muffled tinny dogshit unless you buy another 200 shekel soundbar with your 8K OLED.
>not reference quality THX-tier
I said a stereo setup for $200
wtf is your problem bro you're spazzing
And I said built in TV speakers used to be satisfactory enough that you didn't need to spend another penny on anything else, be it tower speakers or a 7.1 setup unless you were autistic enough for quality
wtf is your problem bro you're illiterate.
>t. zoom zoom
>And I said built in TV speakers used to be satisfactory enough that you didn't need to spend another penny on anything else,
except you're completely wrong
from crt to flats shit always sucked
>except you're completely wrong
>from crt
I'm sorry you watched shit on an 8 inch zentih with monaural sound. Must've sucked living in poverty.
... relatively. But there were better times, were there not?
are you shitting me? box/crt TV speakers were loud as frick
max volume on my NuTV I still can’t hear shit, you pretty much need a soundbar
>Built-in speakers weren't perfect but you could hear shit and it sounded fine.
yeah no
A receiver and two old standmount speakers will sound worse for dialogue than a current tv speaker.
Because they'll try to reproduce the shit audio given to them and because toe-in for a phantom center isn't something most people know how to do and it's not easy on shitty craigslist special speakers.
>using tv speakers
Tale as old as time at this point but I have different volumes for each different thing I’m using whether it be for TV or playstation or whatever. DVDs always require volume at 75 but if I’m using a free trial of some streaming shit the volume is at 25. Can’t hear what they’re saying but God forbid a gunshot goes off or someone revs a car’s engine and blows your eardrums out.
This is all extra annoying because I don’t have a clicker for my TV and have to keep getting up and fiddle with the tiny buttons on the back of the TV. I guess in current year I’m lucky the TV even has buttons, but.
> ffmpeg-normalize
checkmate nolan