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I was and then happy to find this folio equally I was searching for info on how to deal with loud background music on Television set shows! I had my hearing checked by an audiologist at an ENT office concluding year, and my hearing is actually better than average for my age (sixty). The problem I have is the constant ringing. It's always in that location. I honestly can't remember a time when I didn't have information technology. I thought it was normal. I've also noticed that unless I have my TV volume up high, it'south difficult for me to hear the talking voices because the background music is loud and drowns it out. Does anybody else have this problem? How practice yous deal with information technology? I likewise have trouble hearing in loud restaurants because of the loud background dissonance. Nobody else seems to call back it's that loud, but it drives me crazy!
Alue Member

Tinnitus Since:

01/2016

Cause of Tinnitus:

Audio-visual Trauma

Y'all might take a await at this: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-brain-amplifier-compensates-lost-ear.html
There was a thread about it here: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/brains-amplifier-compensates-for-lost-inner-ear-office.13280/
Information technology'south not unusual for people to take hidden hearing loss, normal thresholds, only distorted hearing. The brain might be compensating for hearing loss caused by loss of auditory nerve fibers.
Thank you! I'll check out the links.
Nick Pyzik Member

Tinnitus Since:

half-dozen/23/15

Cause of Tinnitus:

Listening to in-ear headphones & playing in a ring

http://thousand.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/m...y_new_contributor_to_age_related_hearing_loss I have the same problem and I'm 21 years old. Huge difference in age. The problem is I destroyed my auditory nerve fibers through loud noise over time. Please read this article, information technology explains the mechanisms backside why you tin can't hear likewise.
You lot're not the only one with this issue. I've e'er wondered why they don't accept an sound carte du jour on TV's where the soundtrack could be turned downwards and/or the dialogue could be turned upward. I hateful, information technology'south definitely possible for manufactures to offer that simple choice.
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I tin hear everything commonly but background music has always bothered me. Ane Netflix program I watched, tin can't remember the proper noun of it, actually had music with lyrics playing equally loudly in the background as the actors speaking. (Possibly it was an episode of Gray'south Anatomy. ) Midsomer Murders is a great bear witness, but the music at the start bothers me with its loftier-pitched tones.
YouTube videos accept gotten ridiculous because people seem to think that they take to add groundwork music that's every bit loud every bit the narrative. Commonly I put the book at the everyman possible setting, where I can barely hear what's being said but at least the music doesn't blast me out of the room.

It didn't utilise to be this fashion. Now we get assaulted past music everywhere. It's no wonder I never mind to information technology at home anymore.
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I've noticed this with British shows a lot. Like with Dr. Who, the soundtrack is recorded at such a high level that I often miss the dialogue. And movies in general ordinarily become overboard with the soundtrack. This could easily be corrected by giving people an audio equalizing selection on their TV menus, other than bones treble and bass.
My pet theory is that nowadays all TV shows and movies take their audio mixed past people wearing high def headphones, so naturally they hear everything perfectly including the dialogue. Yay for them.
Y'all're probably correct. My pet theory is that in the last decade or so, the volume everywhere has gone upward, equally if loud equals heady or "cool." I don't know, but it's been bugging me for a long, long fourth dimension.
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In music production terms, what yous are referring to is known as "brickwall mastering". This involves using a limiter which stops any signal getting past the threshold the engineer sets. Essentially, this allows you to max out the volume of whatever you're mixing/mastering, which in turn increases the quietest level yous tin get. In other words, if you were to turn down your hifi during a song, it would be a lot louder than a song mixed in the early 90s and prior. On top of this the music is compressed to keep the overall wave course within a certain parameter.
Musicians by and large hate this procedure and it has go to be known as the "loudness war". It seems different producers and mastering engineers are competing to go one pace louder, sparring against one some other to make their mixes even louder. The skill is to brand information technology louder without in that location being any clipping or distortion, but some albums exercise show signs of clipping on proficient stereo systems, such equally Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Expiry Magnetic (Metallica); there are others but y'all go the point.

By maxing out the sound in this way it becomes very compressed, meaning there is very fiddling dynamic range in the music. In other words there is no departure between a soft or quiet part of the rail and a louder chorus for instance. The whole thing simply becomes one loud cake of sound that has inappreciably any contrast.

I'll only add that the loudness war seems to be coming to an end, every bit more and more than people are getting fed upwardly with information technology.

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