Post by housetech on Mar 2, 2021 15:04:30 GMT -5
Bought a soundbar for the TV.
I get so aggravated with crappy, unintelligible dialogue with some movies & TV shows. It seems audio to some mixing engineers is about the effects & background music being more important than the dialogue. Some shows are so bad that I turn on the subtitles. ENOUGH. When watching the news, didn't want to fire up the XMC system but the Sony TV speakers were fingernails on a chalkboard & didn't work.
So, I picked up a ZVOX soundbar and can understand dialogue again. (even with Dirac, I had trouble with some shows) I considered building XMC curves for preset 2 to fix it, but like my settings as is.
Wife said, "You can hear the difference between mp3 and FLAC but you can't hear speech? You spend $thousands changing out components for the finer details and you spend a couple hundred bucks on a soundbar? Are you nuts?"
Ya, she ripped me a new one, laughingly. But she had to agree the dialogue is so much better. ZVOX uses hearing aid technology to filter background & boast speech and it works.
Read the reviews from many people making the same complaints I had. None of us want to admit that our systems don't do everything perfect. The unit is far from what I would prefer. No, I'm not nuts, the end result works on those lousy audio recordings.
Recommend for those folks fighting to hear crappy dialogue, better.
I get so aggravated with crappy, unintelligible dialogue with some movies & TV shows. It seems audio to some mixing engineers is about the effects & background music being more important than the dialogue. Some shows are so bad that I turn on the subtitles. ENOUGH. When watching the news, didn't want to fire up the XMC system but the Sony TV speakers were fingernails on a chalkboard & didn't work.
So, I picked up a ZVOX soundbar and can understand dialogue again. (even with Dirac, I had trouble with some shows) I considered building XMC curves for preset 2 to fix it, but like my settings as is.
Wife said, "You can hear the difference between mp3 and FLAC but you can't hear speech? You spend $thousands changing out components for the finer details and you spend a couple hundred bucks on a soundbar? Are you nuts?"
Ya, she ripped me a new one, laughingly. But she had to agree the dialogue is so much better. ZVOX uses hearing aid technology to filter background & boast speech and it works.
Read the reviews from many people making the same complaints I had. None of us want to admit that our systems don't do everything perfect. The unit is far from what I would prefer. No, I'm not nuts, the end result works on those lousy audio recordings.
Recommend for those folks fighting to hear crappy dialogue, better.
