Although my hearing is sensitive in terms of noise, and I never listened to loud rock music like most people I know, I have noticed lately having difficulty getting the dialogue from some movies and television dramas. Apparently this is a common problem. I have been looking at this: https://zvox.com/collections/accuvoice/products/av100-accuvoice-speaker
What say you, does that work? I am really only interested for this reason, as I am fairly satisfied with the musical quality of our several TVs, although I am prepared to be wowed by improvement there also. My husband keeps his den TV VERY LOUD, and there is no doubt his hearing is impaired. I am wondering if something like this would allow him to turn down the volume.
What say you, does that work? I am really only interested for this reason, as I am fairly satisfied with the musical quality of our several TVs, although I am prepared to be wowed by improvement there also. My husband keeps his den TV VERY LOUD, and there is no doubt his hearing is impaired. I am wondering if something like this would allow him to turn down the volume.
IS ACCUVOICE LIKE OTHER VOICE BOOSTING SYSTEMS?
There are numerous systems that claim to make voices more clear, and most of them do provide some improvement. But most other systems focus on equalization -- a fancy name for tone control -- to make certain frequency ranges louder than others. Equalization is only one small part of what the AccuVoice system does. By combining compression, consonant-range boost, formant enhancement, minimization of bass output -- plus some proprietary techniques we would rather not divulge, the ZVOX AccuVoice system creates outstanding results. Listen for yourself!
WHY CAN'T I UNDERSTAND VOICES ON TV?
Hollywood is mixing sound for drama, not clarity. We recently Googled the phase "hard to understand dialogue movies" and got 162 million hits. Hollywood is using more adventurous audio mixing techniques – often resulting in unclear dialogue. Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post recently described a blockbuster Hollywood movie as having "a muddy, thuddingly loud sound design, in which the score and similarly thumping sound effects render spoken dialogue a submerged garble." She's not the only one complaining. Dozens of web articles in the last two years complain about soundtracks with muddled, hard-to-understand dialogue. From Downton Abbey to The Walking Dead to football announcers, it's an epidemic.