What? Cant hear the voices


My wife and I 55 yrs ish are now having trouble hearing the voices clearly over laugh track and music backrounds on TV shows and movies on DVD. We have a great 38 inch Lowe HD tube TV, embedded in a great two channel sound system. Right now we get the best sound just using the two stereo speakers (Von Sweikert Vr4 SR's) and turning off the TV volume. My question is the best way to proceed. Is there a way to just add a center speaker and a reciever to handle it perhaps with prologic 2? Not interested in surround etc, just clearer voices. Thanks
gammajo

Showing 1 response by flrnlamb

yeah, I thought I responded to this post already, but apparantly not. This sounds like a speaker/seating placment problem, and acoustics issue! If you can't understand the dialoge on good speakers/gear, that's your problem(s). You're bass is probably booming, and off-balance with the rest of the system, and you may or maynot be treating acoustics and "reflection" issues well enough, that your image is getting "smeared", and dialoge is vague. All of the above likely.
Do you find yourself going "up and down" on the volume all the time to compensate for loud passages vs quite ones, with low volume dialoge? You should also consider the noise floor in your room, and sound issolation.
Yep those are your problems..