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OK,
I am not a videophile and rarely watch movies. But last night the wife got me the last Star Trek movie from Netflicks.
My surround sound system is midfi at best. But on this disk and occasionally others I had a hard time hearing the dialogue and had to "go back" a few times to hear things and even then on a scene or 2 I couldnt figure out what they are saying.
Anyhow, is it the disk and have others experienced this?
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Yes, it took about 30 seconds into the movie for me to notice my speakers appeared to have pillows in front of them. Soundtrack and dialogue both affected. My system is hi-rez enough that microphone placement and room acoustics can easily be heard interacting with dialogue.
Movie was a standard disc. (non Blueray) Video was first rate. One scene where the dialogue WAS clear was when Jim and old/future Spock met in the cave on the ice/snow planet.
Watched the blue ray version last night ( I use the analog outputs of my Oppo BD player), sounded great.
If you have a matched system, properly placed and calibrated, that shouldn't be an issue. Maybe the playback level was too low.
Side note, I thought it was a great movie, although when the old Spock character showed up, the term "jumped the shark" came to mind :^)
I dont care for movies much either.Ive been watching some because of blu ray.years ago I changed my center speaker hookup.I did not like the voice only in the front.theres 2 in the rears also.I had to buy a speaker selector so I could play all 3 at the same time.I like it a lot better on everything I play.
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Sound was fantastic. The uncompressed audio is as large of a step up from DVD's as DVD's were above video. (OK, that's on a log scale)
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My wife and I viewed it on Tuesday with no dialogue intelligibility issues at all (front speakers are Polk LSi25s and an LsiC).
Thanks for the reply.
I might be my system then but I think the wife might be the difference.
Mine was sleeping so I was trying to keep it quiet, so perhaps some of the tougher parts would be discernible if I could play it at normal volumes?
Action films certainly are not intended to be watched at reduced sound levels! The audio was quite loud (though not "blasting"), similar to that in a good movie house, when my wife and I viewed it on Tuesday. The "old-style" Dolby Digital soundtrack on the Blu-ray disc is superb.
Possibly setting your player or receiver's dynamic range compression (DRC) to "On" might help dialog audibility for late-night viewing.
...those particular chunks of dialogue simply weren't rerecorded ('looped') for intelligibility. I've run into parts where I couldn't understand sections of dialogue no matter how many times I tried*. Second is that your CC level is set for music and needs to come up a halfdozen dB for movies. I know mine gets adjusted up and down often.
* But I'm an audiophile--I can't hear anything. :-)
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Hey Jeff,
I think it is the first one. I DID adjust center level and it didnt quite help.
Thanks for the response.
no problem here and I don't use a center channel.
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