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
While I had a career in audio, it was not on the film side. However, I believe this is because the sound if mixed for a theater settings where it’s much easier to hear the dynamics and it makes the loud sounds jump out at you more. But at home, it can have the opposite effect. You end up setting the volume based on the loud stuff, but then the dialog is harder to hear.
I suspect it may also make a big difference if you have a surround speaker system. In that setting, the dialog has it’s own dedicated middle speaker as opposed to being folded down into a basic stereo left/right of everything combined.
Personally I wish TVs had an option to compress the dynamic range as an option. Especially with how TV commercials get so loud these days.
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