if i were to listen to movies at levels of -20 to -25 dB rel. to Reference Level, i would often have a hard time understanding dialog.
to compound the problem, it's not every Blu-ray movie where they normalized the audio level to "0" (reference level) with a 0dB normalization offset;
good examples:
LOTR Extended on Blu-ray plays good at -7dB.
Inglourious Basterds plays well at -9dB.
Black Swan plays well at -10dB.
if you have any problem playing the above at Ref. Level, try these.
those 3 movies would be intolerably loud if played at Reference Level.
i can't see any good reason why they offset the playback level like this.
Some that play very well at Reference Level (all Blu-ray):
Super 8;
Godfather collection-the Coppola Restoration;
Hanna;
The 3 Bourne movies;
Saving private Ryan;
the only times i had headaches watching movies or listening to music was when i was upgrading my audio system and it was not calibrated.
Last edited by J. B.; 05/30/12 04:26 PM.
