Same but I also have watched stuff at other people's place and realized some people don't invest in speakers at all. Makes a huge difference.
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I've been to the theatre a few times with the wife to see some musicals. I literally have no fucking clue what's being said or sung. Its all just noise while people prance about on stage to me.
I do enjoy it but I feel like a dog watching TV with its owner or something. I end up just watching everything else instead, watching for cues from the orchestra at the bottom, and seeing if I can see the stage hands and which pulleys work which props.
I... I just... You're right....
I'm a dog watching TV.
I can finally explain it to my wife.
Apparently this isn't an autism thing any more. It's a pervasive problem lots of people are having in the last 10 years or so.
I do have auditory processing problems, and frequently misshear people in the real world. But practically never when watching things, even Nolan films. I literally don't understand how more than half of people report needing subtitles on full time. I'd love to find somone offline who has this problem, and watch something with them to try to experience what they are.
If you don't understand how it feels to need subtitles, try listening to a yanny/laurel video and see if you're able to hear both.
For us folks with auditory processing disorders, it's like the rest of the world hears yanny while we hear laurel. Without subtitles, we are simply incapable of parsing the sound as yanny.
I heard yammy, not yanny, every time. Which at the end of the video seems to be wrong. I did hear laurel when it was pitched down.
But that doesn't really help what I'm saying, because I'm not listening to your speakers in your room with you.
Or when eating crunchy food
I really feel like the audio mixes are not intended for regular stereo speakers anymore… I pull a lot of soundtracks out in audacity for the sake of making ringtones and I almost never see a clean center channel… logically this should be dialogue and maybe some extra effects when they would be overwhelming, like an explosion, etc. but that’s not what I see.
I’m reminded of comments regarding Tenet where Nolan said something like “… you mess with the picture and nobody cares, you mess with the audio and people loose their minds.”
Hummmmmm 🤔
Don't worry. I've got a decent surround setup and I still can't hear shit. They just don't enunciate like the theatre trained actors of the past.
Another solid point.
This feels like something a Python ninja could turn into a real cool visualization. Unfortunately I’m a python janitor.
Do you have trouble understanding people in the real world?
How often?
turns up center speaker to +15dB manually dialogue is now at a reasonable volume
What is this madness? The worst part is forgetting you did that.
Yeah, I did tweak mine as well tbh. Only by about 5 or so. Makes it a little better, but I do like to be able to see the words.
I just wish we had adaptive brightness for the subs. Big white text is fine until you're watching a really dark movie and now all you can see is subs at the same brightness as the sun.
And you are correct. It's also one of those mainly US things. In other languages it's far more balanced with voices.
Interesting… not to be a jerk, but now I want to compare foreign language films with foreign language dubs.
It would make sense that the dubs don’t really have an effects heavy mix simply because it would be more work.
Indeed, this conclusion is that they are being remixed for Germany (of course not always).
We don't like (added missing word lol) being able to understand voices then getting deaf from the next action sequence.
Not the wurst thing I’ve heard this week ;-)
There's a lot of other issues, especially with newer content, but I have found that watching movies with headphones helps.
Over the summer we use window AC units which are quite loud, so we finally decided to ignore our expensive speakers and I bought a cheap headphone amplifier with 4 independently controlled outputs, plus some Bluetooth adapters for when they are needed.
The downside is that our ADHD friends like to be able to talk during movies and the setup makes that difficult. But other than that it's great.
It’s hard to beat a wire for realtime sound 🤓 I’ve been doing the same lately. It’s amazing how much a little bit of white noise makes.
I saw a paper years ago that attributed the accelerated cognitive decline in old age to hearing loss. Really interesting and sad, and after trying to convince my dad to try a hearing aid… I can definitely see that being a factor.
I’m the opposite. Anything that overlays on the screen is actively frustrating to me. I’ll deal with it for foreign film, but for English, I always turn them off, even if they’re defaulted on.
I compulsively read so if I have subtitles on I end up splitting my focus and don't enjoy the visual spectacle.
Thanks for this... I'm doing a presentation on different disabilities and accommodations, and this will help make my point that accommodations tend to help everyone
Good luck!
I always need subtitles when I watch anything
for me if a character speaks with certain accents I have trouble making out what he or she is saying.
other times there's lots of noise in a scene and with my partial hearing loss I wouldn't have a prayer of hearing anything the actors and actresses are saying.
My mom back in the day was all about Coronation Street. We're Canadian though and she was not good with accents. Her answer turn the TV up... A lot. Usually when the reruns were on on Sunday mornings at about 8:00 a.m. brutal as a teenager
I watched "We're all going to the worlds fair" without subtitles and had absolutely no idea what was going on. I think I understood maybe 10 lines of dialogue throughout the entire movie. I read the wikipedia synopsis afterwards and it's a shame I didn't understand it because I think I would have really liked it :(
That's not a autismus thing. Basically everybody has this problem nowadays. https://youtu.be/VYJtb2YXae8