Improve voice dialogue on TV

[covenantuk]

A pricey solution, but the Sonos Playbar and Playbase have settings for "Night Time" and "Speech" which both work brilliantly. Turn them both on and just about all you hear is speech.

 

[Relentless81]

there has to be a solution without all the gimmicks though. The settings are fine but ill be paying for features ill never use.

I'm mostly amazed at the lack of active speakers with an optical input, there are literally none designed for a TV

 

[signs]

I'm mostly amazed at the lack of active speakers with an optical input, there are literally none designed for a TV

good reason for that , it would look awful

my advice would be make room for the amp

 

[chili]

Expensive? Not so much. There is a Onkyo AVR in MM just now for £20. That would do the job you are looking for. And 2 stereo and one centre Cambridge Audio speakers too, coming in at £115 for the 3. So £135 all in for a much nicer sounding set-up than all but the most expensive soundbars, I would wager.

Can't help you with space though. What is your TV sitting on? If it's wall mounted, what are your sources sitting on? Most stands for such equipment can take an AVR with ease. Wall mount the stereo speakers? The person selling the speakers is also selling stands for them for £20, you could always try and negotiate them into the deal for the 3 speakers. Keep the grill on the centre to help prevent curious fingers. I have a 3 & 5 year old. Curious as George. And they have never poked out my tweeters yet. But I do keep my grills on the speakers.

what or where is MM?

 

[Armageus]

what or where is MM?

MM is Members Market, you can obtain access once you reach 1000 posts as per the rules here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/help/boardUsage/

 

[signs]

MM is Members Market, you can obtain access once you reach 1000 posts as per the rules here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/help/boardUsage/

i understand the thought behind that , but a 1000 posts is a "lot" , i have/had 100% feed back over about 40 deals on the site i don't like to promote

 

[Armageus]

i understand the thought behind that , but a 1000 posts is a "lot" , i have/had 100% feed back over about 40 deals on the site i don't like to promote

It's not really the place to discuss it here, but it really isn't that bad - find a couple of interesting topics and you can easily accumulate posts through useful discussion. E.g. In less than 24 Hours I have 40+ posts in a single topic, providing people with help on Crypto coins.

 

[xs2man]

i understand the thought behind that , but a 1000 posts is a "lot" , i have/had 100% feed back over about 40 deals on the site i don't like to promote

On what site? How did you get feedback on deals here without access to members market?

It's not really the place to discuss it here, but it really isn't that bad - find a couple of interesting topics and you can easily accumulate posts through useful discussion. E.g. In less than 24 Hours I have 40+ posts in a single topic, providing people with help on Crypto coins.

Yes, I too felt the same as you, but got a little active in the motors forum, and my post count rocketed.

I don't usually like to stick my oar in either, but I got carried away and now have 4,000+ posts. Oops.

 

[chili]

you could always try the sennheiser rs175 headphones.

https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/rs-175

 

[asim18]

The reason you're not hearing dialogue in films is because of the massive dynamic range, they need to be able to reproduce loud bangs without distortion. Basically they keep the volume of dialogue low, so that when action is happening there is more headroom available in the sound signal for louder sounds like car crashes/explosions and whatnot without it distorting.

This is great in the cinema, where the sound is set so you can clearly hear dialogue and the loud bangs are fun and ridiculously loud. But when watching at home we don't want the bangs to be ridiculously loud so we set the volume low and as a result dialogue becomes extra quiet and unintelligible.

Therefore your best bet is to look for something with an option called "dynamic range compression". Another feature which will also help is independent channel volume so you can boost the centre channel (which is the one used for 99% of dialogue).



Personally, I use a software solution, Ac3filter which is excellent and free. It lets you compress dynamic range as well as adjust the mix/levels of channels independently.

http://www.ac3filter.net/forum/index.php?topic=93512.0

 

[jpaul]

the only problem is, AC3filter is an mpc player exclusive plugin though - no ?
I had mentioned mpc plugins/downmixing earlier but Relentless81 seems to be a kodi/plex user where it is not easy to use mpc player.

Seems a pity that on an htpc you cannot inject such a (ac3filter) mixer so that it applied to all hdmi outputs ie for netflix/iplayer/amazon/itunes players too. (when they have 5.1 streams)

 

[roadie]

night mode

I would have thought that this was the answer. Don't most TVs have this option?