For a decent soundbar expect to pay about 200 to 250 but yes it should improve. Tvs are made with incredibly cheap shit speakers usually facing backwards.
Sound bar will help, what you need is an audio compressor. Basicly a compressor brings the low volume up, and high volume down. Compressing the signal. I use one for playing guitar.
I do have the same problem I went with a 2.1 soundbar woofer. I had to tweak the EQ settings its better now but still happens.
No, only watching movies with white actors in them will make them easier to understand.
Spend an extra 50 bucks and get 5.1 soundbar that comes with a satellite box for bass.
It will send the lows and the highs out of different speakers , and overall experience better. Worth the trip to Costco
Look through the settings on the TV. Chances are it's on the wrong one. I've had this issue twice and both times it was corrected by putting it on the setting made for dialog. There is also a night setting where it will make sure to equalize the volume for people who don't want loud scenes.
I use the dialogue/voice option and it's never been an issue for me since.
What you want is called "dynamic range compression" it lowers the loud parts and raises the quiet parts. VLC has this under Tools > Effects and Filters > Compressor
Full range is great if you have a top end sound system and no neighbors / sleeping children / wife.
Dynamic range is probably also available with most home surround sound systems. (Assuming the same is true with a sound bar)
What is vlc?
VLC is an opensource media player. Runs on anything, plays everything, low overhead, no ads, no bs.
Oh neat, thanks
Honest question: have you had your hearing tested recently?
Not in years but I'm almost certain its fine. I never have a problem hearing live people.
You should get a receiver and a 5.1 or 7.1 setup. That will give you a separate front channel through which most movies will play dialogue. Then you can separately adjust the front channel to be louder than the left/right channels.
I will research it. Thanks
A sound bar will help but what will do a ton of work is adjusting the Equalizer properly
Idk
I have the same problem. Low volume (voices), turn up the volume. Loud sounds come on and wife complains.
I had a full blown entertainment audio system for a while - receiver, four speakers, and sub-woofer. Didn't help. The loud sounds were just LOUDER.
No idea about a sound bar.
Some receivers have a night mode to normalize the audio. You may want to look at the manual that came with yours.
I had a full blown entertainment audio system for a while - receiver, four speakers, and sub-woofer. Didn't help. The loud sounds were just LOUDER.
The receiver should have let you adjust the channels independently. I had the same problem with my 5.1 setup and receiver before I realized this and cranked the center channel up a ton.
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