This whole audio and music thing is a bit silly... On radio, it's been compressed to death, with just a bit of leeway given to commercials so those can be played even louder.
Movies on the other hand have beyond-real-life dynamics, especially something like DVDs with the DTS encoding. Speech is all quiet, making you turn up the volume to hear it, until the first explosion when the small loudspeakers try to jump through the wall. Much fun when you're trying to watch a movie in an apartment building like mine.
My next home theater setup will include a 5.1-channel compressor/limiter... maybe I could loan one from the radio stations. =)
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Date: 2009-06-22 09:22 am (UTC)Movies on the other hand have beyond-real-life dynamics, especially something like DVDs with the DTS encoding. Speech is all quiet, making you turn up the volume to hear it, until the first explosion when the small loudspeakers try to jump through the wall. Much fun when you're trying to watch a movie in an apartment building like mine.
My next home theater setup will include a 5.1-channel compressor/limiter... maybe I could loan one from the radio stations. =)