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Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)
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Audio standards are also a fucking mess. Getting a surround sound system to actually work is a nightmare because there's more surrounded sound audio standards than there are atoms in the universe, and the "auto" settings that are supposed to take care of it just don't.
And if the format of the media you're watching doesn't match your speaker setup, the audio ends up being awful.
As somebody who recently set up a Denon 5.1 system, that's not been my experience. I mean, there's certainly a lot of tweaking, wires, and configuration to do, but it's not because of the audio standards. Dolby just fucking works, and everybody uses it.
The main problem is trying to figure out how best to upmix stereo inputs to get it to sound decent, and make sure you can get a decent mix of narration and music. I've found it's best to just trust the microphone-based auto-configuration for speaker levels, and use the other options like multi-channel stereo and the dialog enhancer settings to make it work better.
Which Dolby? I have to change the settings when I change services or individual programs to find which setting actually results in the surround channels playing audio.
Do I need it to use Prologic, DTS, Atmos, Pro Logic II, Neo, Digital Plus, or Aura?
It doesn't matter. Your audio receiver will know which one is it and decode it.
Yet somehow it never does, or just defaults to "virtual surround"