Focal 706S voice reproduction

[TankTop5]

I’m not sure how to describe what I’m hearing but I want to say voices can sound almost too good. When HD TV first came out and people were complaining about the soap opera effect, that’s almost how I feel voices sometimes sound. I’ve already mentioned my setup in a different thread but I’ll repeat, NAD 705 receiver, Focal 706S bookshelf’s running in stereo off of XBOX One optical audio with a converter to RCA’s and almost exclusively movies from any number of streaming services. What I’m hearing is sometimes the movie scene sounds natural like it’s all happening together and other times I feel like I hear when the dialogue was recorded in a sound room and all the other sounds were dubbed in separately. Is this just the downside of quality sound reproduction and hearing when the studio skimped on their audio budget or am I just imagining this?


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[Pedro Alvarado]

we were walking around a store and looked at the 4k tv"s she told me that the face on the tv looked more clear than my face

 

[everettT]

The source audio is the issue.

 

[killdozzer]

Hoping it may help; what you describe reminds me of running a 5.1 material through stereo set up.

 

[TankTop5]

Hoping it may help; what you describe reminds me of running a 5.1 material through stereo set up.

That’s exactly what I’m doing but I did switch the Xbox to stereo output. Perhaps the optical audio output only does surround?


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[Leemix]

Its the curse of a good system that you can easily hear when the sound mix isnt well done. But it should usually be enjoyable anyway.


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[TankTop5]

Haha, I’m silly. I knew one of the tweeters wasn’t working and ordered one from Focal. Didn’t realize how big of a difference it would make with the sound stage and imaging (maybe confusing the two) but worlds of difference. I’m also realizing how much of a noob this makes me


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