There is too much dynamic range in the audio of modern movies and TV...

[OutHouse]

I want to know what TV he is talking about. lol

LG

they all sound like they are in a coffee can.

 

[Kneedragger]

We have enough here let's start a petition or something stupid and get this changed! If we get that Star Trek guy that uses lens flares every minute we can make people aware. Who's in?!

 

[Jeff7]

And worse, advertisers think their product is more meaningful than a movie's main action sequence.

Imagine animals like birds or frogs with their loud songs or croaks, or birds of paradise that have all kinds of ornate feather displays. They're just going to crazy and outlandish lengths to get attention in the hopes of scoring a mate. Some of them are evolutionary burdens too. If you're a delicious meat-filled bird, being bright red and orange might make it pretty easy for a predator to find you. You're going into war, but you've been outfitted with something sparkly from a Vegas showgirl's wardrobe.


Many advertisers have the same level of dignity as those animals. If they could just show a big naked butt on TV in the hopes of garnering some extra attention as a result, they'd do it.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Is your home theater properly calibrated? I've never experienced that problem with mine.

Sounds like you have your subwoofer set too high in the first place.

Just because it goes to 11, doesn't mean it SHOULD be at 11.

My Paradigm I typically set to 4 of 11, iirc. You should be able to have the rest of the speakers quite loud before the house is rattling due to excessive subwoofer usage.

My setup is not professionally calibrated, but I do have my crossovers set up to match the speaker sizes. My center channel is +3dB to help with dialogue. And no, my subwoofer is not maxed out, from what I remember it's set to about half the maximum power - just enough to hear the base while listening to music and most movies, but not enough to rattle your chest or anything in the house. Watched X-Men Days of Future Past two days ago, and for the most part the sound was good, I could hear the voice track just fine, explosions were just a tad too loud, but overall I'd say that movie had a good sound mix. Yet, quite often I come across badly mixed movies that just defy the common sense, Transformers is a good example, the sound effects are just way too freaking loud in relation to the speaking volume.

 

[alkemyst]

My setup is not professionally calibrated, but I do have my crossovers set up to match the speaker sizes. My center channel is +3dB to help with dialogue. And no, my subwoofer is not maxed out, from what I remember it's set to about half the maximum power - just enough to hear the base while listening to music and most movies, but not enough to rattle your chest or anything in the house. Watched X-Men Days of Future Past two days ago, and for the most part the sound was good, I could hear the voice track just fine, explosions were just a tad too loud, but overall I'd say that movie had a good sound mix. Yet, quite often I come across badly mixed movies that just defy the common sense, Transformers is a good example, the sound effects are just way too freaking loud in relation to the speaking volume.

Most people are way off when doing this by 'ear'.

Also many automatic samplers get the subwoofers wrong due to many factors...

 

[JimKiler]

We have enough here let's start a petition or something stupid and get this changed! If we get that Star Trek guy that uses lens flares every minute we can make people aware. Who's in?!

HA! I noticed that in the first Star Trek movie and now I see other movies mimicing it! Next thing you know that bass drop will be in all action movie commericals...too late!

 

[BurnItDwn]

I like it for my home theater, which is generally always pretty loud,.

For the living room, which I just have a pair of low end polk speakers and an old reciever, we usually just use the dynamic range limiter. Reciever is overkill for its current use though....

 

[Jeff7]

HA! I noticed that in the first Star Trek movie and now I see other movies mimicing it! Next thing you know that bass drop will be in all action movie commericals...too late!

Or the (old) teal&orange problem.