I’ve always struggled hearing what the characters are saying without cranking the volume completely up. Then an action scene suddenly happens and it’s deafening loud and has to be turned down again. This has always frustrated me. Great movie otherwise.
shareThis has plagued movies for years. It has only gotten worse, too.
shareIn my experience, unless you have speakers almost everything you watch has to have the volume cranked up to hear the dialog. I myself refuse to get speakers though. I don't have room for them.
shareI run into the same problem with porno movies.
shareI don't recall this being an issue with T2 as this movie would certainly subscribe to an old school type of sound editing, but movies with any type of action made from 2010-on would certainly have this annoying feature. In the past 10 years it has become much worse but we only have ourselves to blame really, as the cause of it is said to be because studios believe audiences are often on their phone multi-tasking and the sudden increase gets their attention back to what they're watching.
This is also why modern TV shows constantly have the climaxes of music because a major scene change.
It's entirely possible that you are watching a modern reissue of T2 which may have a remastered sound mix that has been made to be more like the modern trend of pumping it up to avoid audience distraction.
VLC has a compressor/gain function which is very handy to keep everything the same, but it does spoil the original sound mix of the title you're watching. I use this feature when watching TV shows at 1.5x speed as the dialogue tends to get quieter the faster you run the file.
FM radio stations also do it to all the music they play, as do nightclubs. Been going on for decades.
Put it on 2.0 stereo and off DTS. Also if your TV has a "Clear Voice" feature in audio settings, use that.
shareTurn up your hearing aid
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