[eli5] Why is it so hard to hear the dialogue in a lot of movies and shows when everything else is so loud?

Question

I’m constantly having to turn the volume up and down depending on the what the scene is. It’s not just me either. A lot of people I know have resorted to just turning on the closed captioning so they can hear what they’re saying. I don’t remember this being an issue before.

In: 2005

Answer 1

See if you can change your audio settings from Surround 5.1 or (Dolby) to Stereo. I had this exact same problem on my tv with Netflix for movies, it keeps defaulting to surround 5.1 which is really annoying until I remember to change it to stereo.