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Comment by Yizahi

19 hours ago

I'm listening to a majority of video content in my stereo headphones on PC. They are good and quality of every source is good. Everything sounds fine except for some movie and some TV shows specifically. And those are atrocious in clarity.

Regarding internal speakers, I have listened to several cheap to medium TVs on internal speakers, and yes on some models the sound was bad. But it doesn't matter, because the most mangled frequencies are high and low, and that's not the voice ones. When I listen on the TV with meh internal speakers I can clearly understand without any distortion voices in the normal TV programming, in sports TV, in old TV shows and old movies. The only offenders again are some of he new content.

So no, it's not the internal speakers who are at fault, at all.

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Avamander  9 hours ago

Do you really expect a downmix of eight channels into two to sound super clear?

New content especially comes with more channels, more channels that will get muddled into your two for output.

Do you spend the effort of specifically selecting stereo tracks (or adjusting how it gets downmixed)?

  • throw-12-16  1 hour ago

    Most of these guys would rather debate the perceived morality of the current state of audio mixes over just buying some better speakers.

    It's pretty annoying.

throw-12-16  18 hours ago

I'm not a speaker sales person, believe whatever you want.

  • Yizahi  18 hours ago

    Do you realize that phones, tablets, laptops, most PCs don't have an option of "just add speakers"? You are technically correct, yes full Dolby Duper Atmo 9.2.4.8.100500 system is better. But people without them are not using their setups incorrectly, they have valid setups they have valid use case and they don't get basic level of quality which IS possible and WAS possible just a few years ago with proper channel mixing.