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Closed captioning is great to avoid this.
If it needs closed captions, either it has foreign languages or the audio mixing is terrible.
Damn near everything has loud volume in it, and they do crank it up for explosions. When I used to watch TV, I remember the volume of commercials being way louder than the actual program. Closed captioning solved that one too.
Ads are still louder than the programming. Years back, there was a congressional hearing about that, congress asked advertisers to lower the volume. I don't think advertisers listened.
Dynamic range has merit for whispers and explosions, but too many professionals have fallen into the trap of "explosions should be painfully loud". The audience has suspension of disbelief for a reason called "not suffering pain". It's the same reason Shakespeare's stage plays dont toss a bucket of blood on the front row for "realism".
Professionals also insist on mixing audio for Dolby reference levels these days, which is an absurd 85db. That forces listeners to either suffer pain and hearing loss, or adjust volume to a more reasonable level...and now they can't hear the whispered dialogue that is in vogue.
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