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Owasso_Landman t1_j258ys8 wrote

Are you using a sound bar or speakers? Modern televisions have awful speakers and with prestige Directors/Producers now making TV shows they are probably mixing them with the assumption they will be heard on premium sound systems as opposed to a show like NewsRadio that’s a very basic three camera studio show. (just a hunch).

Also some speakers have a “dialogue” setting. You might check that.

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poet3322 OP t1_j25ddov wrote

No sound bar or speakers. I don't think there's a dialogue setting on my TV, but I'll check again in the audio settings. Thanks.

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Owasso_Landman t1_j25eeym wrote

Even a cheap sound bar will be better. Downside to modern thin TV’s is shitty speakers. Unfortunately you just missed all the Black Friday sales. If you mostly watch alone you might be able to connect Bluetooth speakers (like a jam box) or headphones to your streaming device. I do this with my AirPods when I don’t want to wake people up in the house.

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crashfrog t1_j27yck1 wrote

> Are you using a sound bar or speakers? Modern televisions have awful speakers

They’re honestly not, not on a TV larger than 40” and made in the last ten years (they’re using the same computational audio correction that’s in laptops now) and no reciever at any price point can fix a bad mix or a mumbling actor.

It’s the mixes and the actors that are bad. Your 400W reciever isn’t going to make “naturalistic” mumbling intelligible or fix fight scenes lit by tea candles, it’s just going to make your neighbors one floor down hate your fucking guts.

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