Comment by PunchyHamster

> I don't find the source anymore but I think that I saw that it was even a kind of small conspiracy on tv streaming so that you set your speakers louder and then the advertisement time arrive you will hear them louder than your movie.

It's not just that. It's obsession with "cinematic" mixing where dialogues are not only quieter that they could, to make any explosion and other effects be much louder than them, but also not enough above background effects.

This all work in cinema where you have good quality speakers playing much louder than how most people have at home.

But at home you just end up with muddled dialogue that's too quiet.