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I hope that my set up for playing DVDs is reasonably half decent (Arcam Solo Movie 5.1 going through ProAc Hexa surround speakers including centre and sub with a Panasonic DMR-BS850 linked into the Arcam for Blu ray).
But I'm disappointed with the sound balance. All the "noises-off" - things like backing music and helicopter sound effects going back and forward across the room - sound fine. It's dialogue that is bad and sometimes barely audible. If I turn the volume up to the level where one can make out clearly what people are saying to each other, all the other stuff becomes uncomfortably loud and frightens the dog. So, particularly on more modern films, I often end up putting the subtitles on.
I suspect that part of the problem is that actors in recent years have been allowed to get away with mumbling their lines in a way that would have been unthinkable in the past when good elocution was universal. But beyond top of that is it a case of crap audio mixing in putting together the finished soundtrack or can I tweak my system to give better results?
When I got the Arcam Solo Movie, it seemed that it was separating the movie soundtrack into a number of different components in a way that my previous Yamaha RX-V795RDS surround amp hadn't done. Is that just my imagination?
I see that there was a similar thread several years ago but wonder whether things may have changed in the meantime.
Many thanks for any views.
But I'm disappointed with the sound balance. All the "noises-off" - things like backing music and helicopter sound effects going back and forward across the room - sound fine. It's dialogue that is bad and sometimes barely audible. If I turn the volume up to the level where one can make out clearly what people are saying to each other, all the other stuff becomes uncomfortably loud and frightens the dog. So, particularly on more modern films, I often end up putting the subtitles on.
I suspect that part of the problem is that actors in recent years have been allowed to get away with mumbling their lines in a way that would have been unthinkable in the past when good elocution was universal. But beyond top of that is it a case of crap audio mixing in putting together the finished soundtrack or can I tweak my system to give better results?
When I got the Arcam Solo Movie, it seemed that it was separating the movie soundtrack into a number of different components in a way that my previous Yamaha RX-V795RDS surround amp hadn't done. Is that just my imagination?
I see that there was a similar thread several years ago but wonder whether things may have changed in the meantime.
Many thanks for any views.