[jletienne]

this is the correct take for Netflix and Christopher Nolan. The answer is they used to.

I read a forum where an engineer was working on a TV show would flip the show in his living room, bedroom, guest bedroom. Walking around the house making sure the sound was balanced everywhere, driving his wife insane.

It's not engineers making that decision it's Nolan overreaching "If you see it particularly in an IMAX theater, projected, it’s pretty remarkable". source -> https://www.indiewire.com/2020/11/christopher-nolan-director...

Not sure what his deal is. 'Nolan also admitted in a 2017 interview with IndieWire that his team decided “a couple of films ago that we weren’t going to mix films for substandard theaters,” adding, “We’re mixing for well-aligned, great theaters.”' source -> https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/tenet-sound-mixing-backlas...

It's madness. Idk what Netflix's excuse is. Their spec sheet is 2600+ words. But I think the issue is this line "5.1 audio is required and 2.0 is optional." My best guess if you have 5 speakers and subwoofer it's fine. But if you're on cheap headphones or a laptop good luck.

[jnwatson]

Nope, I can’t understand the dialog even in Imax. I think Nolan has whatever the opposite of audio processing disorder is.

[brokenmachine]

Nolan's stuff sounds like shit on my fully calibrated 5.1 setup.

Also sounded like shit when I saw it in a (non-imax, but "X-Treme audio" or whatever it was) cinema.

Guess I'd need to buy my own imax cinema to make it watchable.

Think I'll just pass and watch something from a competent director instead.

[hulitu]

Netflix sound is just crap. It has nothing to do with "cinematic experience". Voice is not intelligible even at very high volume.