On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:39 PM, CJB <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure about loudness of narrators, what I find extremely irritating > - to the point of switching to another channel - is the overly-LOUD > dramatic music. This is so loud that the narrator cannot be heard, and > I then have to switch to using subtitles.
God yes, I have only very mild hearing loss, but I do have hyperacusis, and (a) cannot tolerate the volume of the music, and (b) cannot make out the speech. They tell me that "object-based media" may one day solve this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/object-based-media Don't ask me why it couldn't have been built in to the DVB specs 20 years ago, at a coarse level all that would be required is to send speech separately from other sound, and have the receiver mix it. > And even Attenborough's > narration is not faultless - often his diction fades almost to silence > but then perks up later. This variability in sound levels is not due > to his unprofessionalism per se but sloppy sound engineering and > editing. CJB To be fair, he's 91, and his voice is weaker than it was a decade or two ago. Still would rather listen to him than mumbling twenty-something actors (never thought I'd start moaning about that before I hit 40!) S. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
