If, like me, you’re a major Harry Potter fan, you’ll need to check out the inspiration for Diagon Alley, Gringotts Bank and even the name of The Dark Lord himself. Rowling write the books in cafes in Edinburgh, but many of the sights, sounds and smells of the city inspired her characters and locations. Have you read all the books and watched the films? Growing up in Edinburgh meant that I got as close as I could to my dream of being a real-life boy wizard. Not only did J.K. If those three parameters are optimized (positioning, levels, room) but you still have dialogue issues, you might simply have a lousy center speaker-this often happens when people automatically buy the 'matching' same-brand, some-model-line center after hearing just the L/R speakers in a store where it as demoed with music not movies (or after reading some gushing internet review about the L/R speakers).This article has links to products and services we love, which we may make commission from. Room acoustics can come into play-people sitting right up against a wall behind them, for example.

Many receivers' remote controls have shortcuts for boosting the center and subwoofer levels temporarily, then automatically revert to your previous settings the next time you power up. The other is not adjusting the center speaker's trim level as needed, depending on content.some folks just keep whatever initial settings that Audyssey or some other RC tool chooses, usually with poor results. stuffing it inside a cabinet pointed at shin/knee level. positioning of the center speaker is one of the most common causes of voice issues.e.g. It's slightly bothersome that, in the Harry Potter film case, voices are at that point where I think to myself 'They could have made it 2.5-5db louder and it would be perfect'.Ĭlick to expand. What's important is that I make that change at the start of a film and it usually stays there. Some movies I have to go to -10db to get what I'd consider 'movie theater volume', and in others they are so loud that I bump it down to -20db. The fact that I notice between different movies that there's a greater db gap between voices & action sounds depending on the movie. I think what I'm doing is just complaining about the inevitable, maybe. I can't say that I've had to actively volume up or down on any movie I watch. I typically keep the volume around -15db to 17.5db for the Harry Potter films. I'll say this: I've watched 5 harry potter films already the past few days and I haven't really had to touch my remote once. I probably made this issue sound worse than it really is, or made it sound like I have some kind of setup / equipment problem.

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