Can't hear TV dialogue? I found 3 methods to dramatically improve the audio quality

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Say you're watching an edgy new streaming series and find yourself turning up the volume for every scene where two actors are engaged in a dramatic dialogue. It seems like both characters are whispering -- until an explosion happens on screen, and the sound is the opposite, almost deafening.

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What's up with that? It's not just the imbalanced proportion of sound that bothers you, and it's not that your hearing is going bad. Keep reading, and you might find an easy fix for improving (and balancing) your TV's audio quality.

In the scenario above, my first recommendation would be to turn on your closed captions. While enabling video subtitles is an obvious solution for understanding the dialogue ...