At first I thought it might just be me, but online and in person, I’m hearing more and more people talk or joke about how crazy loud movie theater speakers are getting. Lots of people (including myself) are resorting to wearing ear plugs just to watch a movie without getting ear pain. Meanwhile, I almost never see anyone complaining about *not* being able to hear a movie in the theater.
Is there a secret wave of people who can’t hear theater speakers that I’m just missing? Or is something else going on?
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As far as I’m aware, movie theaters don’t have that many volume steps. From my reading at the time (maybe specific to Dolby) they have a scale of 10 or 11. And the default level is 7.
Ehat often happens is that a movie comes in and isn’t quite mixed properly. So they have to increase the sound level to say a 9. And then the next movies comes around and they don’t always put it back. Which results in way too loud a movie.
The truth is most big theaters don’t really care. The Dolby near me is almost always too loud and the projectors have been calibrated properly once in the past 2 years.
If you complain they eventually send someone to fix it. But it’s not very long until something happens to screw it.
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