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Check that the audio format of whatever you’re watching matches the output of your listening device. If you watch a movie using 5.1, but your TV is stereo, then yes all of the loud shit is going to be very loud and crowd out the dialog. This might not be the silver bullet for everyone, but it costs you nothing to check your settings.
Some movies are actually just mixed super poorly, though.
What would be the solution if the movie is using 5.1 and my TV only has stereo? What would be the correct setting?
Stereo
Use stereo for the movie. Some apps, like Netflix (iirc) has a setting for that.
Good luck finding a BluRay that doesn't just have a 7.1 mix, but also Stereo.
Yeah, I think all of my totally legitimate blu-ray movie rips only have 5.1 or 7.1, I've never seen stereo outside of TV series.
I think one of the Pixar or Dreamworks BDs I'd rented recently had a 2.0 mix and I was amazed. My 90's HiFi speakers are amazing for stereo and it's a shame that I cannot make good use of them for watching movies.
Only works if the original media has multiple mixes. Some stuff made for the small screen does, but very few films go through the process of doing separate audio mixes.
Some TVs have a virtualization option that can help.
Just because your TV can decode a better signal than it can playback, that doesn't mean that will give you the best user experience.
And that doesn't take I to account Hollywood laziness with not actually making a proper stereo mic and instead just using the original theater mix that assumes you have a 15,000 watt 20 speaker system.