OK, the title is poorly worded. Sorry. What I mean is I’m watching a movie right now. When they’re speaking, I have to turn the volume up,but as soon as there’s any sort of special effect sound I pretty much go deaf because it is so loud. For the record the movie I’m watching is beauty and the beast put out in 2017 with Emma Watson. Speaking I have to set the volume to approximately 45 out of 100 on my home theater. As soon as they start singing, it is so damn loud it’s insane. Why would they do this and how do I fix the problem?
I’m using a Roku for Disney plus and a Denon receiver AVR-E400. I’ve tried going into the settings for Audyssey and strong dynamic volume to medium but that only helps a little bit. Maximum is a possibility, but then the audio doesn’t even sound correct it’s like I don’t know how to explain it, but it sounds strange at that point.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem because the dynamic range that I’m having is insane. I’m glad I live in my own house an apartment otherwise the neighbors would be pissed off at me.
Edit: I have a 5.1 system
Simple solution: turn on closed captioning.
You can still curse the morons that balance sound for movies/TV etc. while still getting all the dialogue in a movie.
We enable CC on everything because my partner is not a native speaker. Turns out I’m hooked on it now for anything where any characters have accents. I catch all kinds of little details that I used to miss without quite realizing it.
I love when CC includes details that you would not be able to normally hear
If subtitles or captions are on, I can’t help but read them. It’s fine for most things. Terrible for standup comedy, though. The captions spoil the delivery.
I prefer always having CC off because I end up reading every sentence and it distracts me from actually watching the movie. I only use them for british/foreign films or for movies with bad sound mixing
Same! My wife speaks better English than she hears. And like you, I’m hooked on CC.