Movies are too loud! Except when talking

[uberubert]

Ok, so I think movies are too loud in action scenes compared to their volume in talking scenes. I can barely hear people talking, and at the same volume bear the loud action scenes.. I'm ranting about it here

What do you think about todays movies?

 

[JonnyFive23517]

For Star Trek Into Darkness I was lamenting not having ear plugs with me.

 

[Hocky]

It is a double edge sword, I think. Large dynamic range is important. Real life has large dynamic range. But I agree, sometimes (and more than occasionally), it is taken too far.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

This is a very common issue and it has little to do with the way movies mastered. Have you noticed how this is none issue in the movie theater?
The best way to fix it is room treatments and after that proper Auto room setup - preferably Audyssey XT at-least (or audyssey xt32 even better)

 

[j_garcia]

Was going to say something similar. At home, you can at least do something about it and it is more likely a setup issue as opposed to a movie issue. In the theater though, I agree, tending toward too loud.

 

[ImcLoud]

The intro to Hangover part 3 was stupid loud, I played it on blu ray the other day and my subs were smashing the house apart, stuff was falling all over the place it was intense, and nothing was happening, it was just the intro, just crazy bass.. I think it was HO3, I watched that and The Heat {waste of time, both movies for that matter, my brother roped me into them} I don't know which was crazy bassy, but one of them was just stupid...

Anyway, yes I notice this, the worst offenders are the older batmans, Im like "what are they saying" and then turn it up and by then the talking is over and something is exploding waking the ghosts in my house....

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Oi Mate, The Heat is a good movie, if you don't take it too seriously

 

[darien87]

For Star Trek Into Darkness I was lamenting not having ear plugs with me.

For Star Trek Into Darkness I was not lamenting having a blindfold with me.

 

[ImcLoud]

Oi Mate, The Heat is a good movie, if you don't take it too seriously

They are already starting number 2, I wasn't crazy about it, I would much rather watch birds make a nest in a tree far away then ever see that movie again...

 

[3db]

This is a very common issue and it has little to do with the way movies mastered. Have you noticed how this is none issue in the movie theater?
The best way to fix it is room treatments and after that proper Auto room setup - preferably Audyssey XT at-least (or audyssey xt32 even better)

Just curious, are the movies playing in the theater mastered exactly the same way as on a Blu Ray? If so I would have to agree with you. However, why is it that its only certain blurays/dvds that have the problem? I think that tweeking ones home set up will help but it will not cure the badly mastered discs.

To the OP, if the dynamic swing is too great for your ears espcially at night, you should have facilities on your AVR such as nighttime mode ( I think that's what Denon calls their) to limit the swing between loud and quiet. Yamaha has what they call ADAPTIVE DRC to limit the swing as well. I never use it.

 

[fuzz092888]

IIRC the movie theater audio track is different from the HT audio track. I believe there are more channels and I would assume they don't master the track into overly hot like they seem to do on some BD discs.

I could be way off base, but to me it seems like some BD's are coming out with their tracks mastered way too hot because they're being mastered to deliver maximum wow factor off of HTIB systems and the like. Whereas on a half decent system that someone has put together, it can feel overwhelming. I know when I watched "Into Darkness" at home, I couldn't stand to have it anywhere near 0 on the receiver, which is a sure sign to me that it's mastered much hotter than many other movies I have.

The room could very well be the problem for certain issues, but for overall SPL I would guess it's probably not the case.

Just curious, are the movies playing in the theater mastered exactly the same way as on a Blu Ray? If so I would have to agree with you. However, why is it that its only certain blurays/dvds that have the problem? I think that tweeking ones home set up will help but it will not cure the badly mastered discs.

To the OP, if the dynamic swing is too great for your ears espcially at night, you should have facilities on your AVR such as nighttime mode ( I think that's what Denon calls their) to limit the swing between loud and quiet. Yamaha has what they call ADAPTIVE DRC to limit the swing as well. I never use it.