Hi I recently moved into an apartment and want to buy new speakers but with every speaker setup I've had I have the same issues:
1) In order to hear the voices in movies, you need to put the volume up really loud. I purchased an Onkyo/Energy 5.1 setup for my family and while watch a blu-ray movie, I'm constantly there with the remote raising and lowering the volume. For instance, if there's an action scene with lots of sound effects, I have to lower the volume and then raise it once the action's over and people start speaking.
If I play the same movie played through the internal TV speakers, I can hear the actors speak perfectly fine even at really low volumes.
2) I can hear the subwoofer from the room below even when the bass is pretty low. The apartment I'm in has above average sound insulation but recently someone moved in above me and I hear his subwoofer every single night and it's extremely annoying.
So I want better sound, but I want to be able to hear people speak clearly at lower volume levels. Also, I don't want to annoy the people below me. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks.
1) In order to hear the voices in movies, you need to put the volume up really loud. I purchased an Onkyo/Energy 5.1 setup for my family and while watch a blu-ray movie, I'm constantly there with the remote raising and lowering the volume. For instance, if there's an action scene with lots of sound effects, I have to lower the volume and then raise it once the action's over and people start speaking.
If I play the same movie played through the internal TV speakers, I can hear the actors speak perfectly fine even at really low volumes.
2) I can hear the subwoofer from the room below even when the bass is pretty low. The apartment I'm in has above average sound insulation but recently someone moved in above me and I hear his subwoofer every single night and it's extremely annoying.
So I want better sound, but I want to be able to hear people speak clearly at lower volume levels. Also, I don't want to annoy the people below me. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks.