I hate that genre of tv that's made for adults, but doesn't consider that those adults might have kids who might be woken up by the tv suddenly going from a whisper to loud as hell gunshots!

Fucking breaking bad, what is your problem. Balance your goddamn levels properly!

@bentosmile I always have one finger on the volume control because so many pieces of media come mixed for big screens/ home cinema

I've heard that some tvs come with a function to reduce the dynamic range of the sound but that shouldn't be necessary

@noiob oh yeah, our amp thing has a 'late night' mode, which I guess is supposed to do that... Except it doesn't work with whatever sound mode the fire tv stick chooses 🤦

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@bentosmile @noiob Yeah, I am constantly hovering over the volume button in most media.. Sensory stuff + verbal processing stuff makes this a v. frustrating trend, people whispering a lot and then stuff that's nowhere near as vital to the plot suddenly 4x as loud x.x

I should look into a speaker setup which moderates dynamic range, I wasn't aware that was a thing! 👍

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