Why is it required to turn the sound bar up to 60+ on some streaming services/shows whereas others work fine at 15-20?
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I only experience that with illegal streams, sometimes they’re super quiet and the next episode will blow out the speakers. No explanation for except that it’s probably something the uploader did to the file.
I use a 4k fire stick and I always have to put the volume twice as loud as the cable box tv. Im not sure why though it is a little bit annoying.
At least part of this likely comes down to how the sound is mastered and mixed; some shows/services just generally master their baseline volume to be louder than others.
Sometimes this is due to thematic vs practical concerns; an action movie is likely to have a sound mix with louder vocal levels than some other shows, because the voices need to be heard over or in contrast to gunfire and explosions without the explosions being too loud, so if an explosion is too loud at volume 30, then the voice of the audio will be mixed to be clearly audible at that same volume level.
Contrast to a highly suspenseful horror or drama where the juxtaposition of people whispering to jump scares or emotional scenes with people loudly yelling or crying, and the volume becomes more dynamic, but at the cost of needing to turn up the volume to hear the whisper-y bits.
It shouldn’t be that way. Something is funky with your setup. Perhaps one service is set to surround sound while the other is set to stereo. Or if they are using different inputs on your sound bar maybe the soundbar settings are out of sync. Hard to say for sure without knowing the exact set up you are using for streaming, video and audio.
You might see small volume difference between one platform and another but generally speaking you shouldn’t have to change the volume more than a few points, if at all, if everything is set properly.
I believe it’s the bitrate of the sound you are listening to. Some streaming services have higher audio bitrates which produce louder sounds and some others use lower bitrates. On Spotify you can set the bitrate you want to stream on and you can hear the difference.
Why the fuck can’ty we just have a World wide standard for volume on any device or platform? I mean, even in the days of CDs it was a joke. Why couldn’t they standardise that shit?
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