Is painful. I'm watching 24 on WMP, and the voices are so much softer than the rest of the frequency spectrum that I have to up the volume, which makes the rest go up to an unbearable level... Is there something I can do to remedy this or do I need to whip out another pair of headphones?
The following applies if you are using a DVD player ---> digital out ---> then an A/V receiver where you plug your headphones.
In the DVD player you must choose the stereo soundtrack, or you must set the "stereo downconversion" (or something with a similar name) to ON if choosing the multichannel sountrack. Either that, or in the receiver you would need to choose stereo downconversion if it´s getting the full 5.1 Dolby Digital or DTS channels from the dvd player through the digital in.
If your receiver is processing 5.1 channels, you will be listening to only the L and R channels on a headphone, missing the center channel (which has most of the dialog), plus rear channels and subwoofer will also be missing on the headphones. In those conditions the dialogs can be barely hearable. Actually, in many multichannel masterings the dialog is completely absent from the L and R channels, only the center channels has it on most of the movie, so you wouldn´t hear any voices at all through headphones unless choosing the stereo soundtrack or downconverting multichannel to stereo.
Some receivers might apply some form of multichannel-to-stereo auto-downconversion for the headphone out when processing multichannel digital inputs though, but I wouldn´t count on that.
Originally Posted by Schalldämpfer /img/forum/go_quote.gif Is painful. I'm watching 24 on WMP, and the voices are so much softer than the rest of the frequency spectrum that I have to up the volume, which makes the rest go up to an unbearable level... Is there something I can do to remedy this or do I need to whip out another pair of headphones?
What is your setup here? Are you just using an internal soundcard on your computer? If so, your computer might have some speaker configuration type DSP enabled. I'll often find the defaults for soundcards tend to bump up the bass and volume so that voices sound muffled. If it's also set to a 5.1 configuration, the sound that's in the center channel gets softened as well. So I'd first make sure that your sound settings are all for headphone use, and try messing with bass and treble settings on your soundcard.
Yeah, it's Windows Media Player. I switched over to VLC and my Ety, and it's all better. I'll try it later with my Sennheiser again, but right now, I'm absorbed.
If you do, please read the FAQ main page (http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/ind...itle=Main_Page) in order to set it up properly. This works great with any video type media on any computer, plus it's easily customizable.
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