Very good explainer from Tom Scott.

The hero we deserve, and the one we need!

You leave Timothee Chalomet alone! Vocal fry is acting!

• Bus station loudspeakers in Pondicherry

It's like that again on streamers like Prime

What about video players with no volume control? Or video that starts off at 140dB SPL right off the bat with 250% THD as well?

all hail before the holy VLC googler

What I hate most about this attitude is a disregard for the fundamentals that make a film hold up over time: the story/plot/world building, way, way, way more than the graphics or other bells and whistles.

Sound design and graphics are very important, but if you're sacrificing dialogue for the vast majority of watchers, for you to have a wank over dynamic range, then you don't have your priorities straight.

They really ought to release multiple audio mixes. This is really getting annoying, and if wanting to hear dialogue is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Preach, brother. I don't get the fetish with aiming for 'natural' dynamic range in a movie in the first place. I need these people to explain to me why reproducing the relative sound pressure of a fucking explosion relative to normal speaking volume is somehow desirable to me.

Fuck your dynamic range, it doesn't enhance the media what so ever.

enables loudness equalization

Thx a bunch! Will try with Inna

Have you checked that all your speakers are in phase? Specifically that the positive on amp cable goes to the positive connect on on the back of the speaker?

If your system is otherwise matched especially the left/centre/right then it should function.

Depending on your surround sound amp/processor some of them can get stuck in stereo vs surround.

A quick test is here.

Verify the dialog with a well mixed movie or dvd though that adds another level of possible issues. (most appletv stuff works as expected)

Good luck with it.