These days, it feels like audio professionals deliberately mix sound the wrong way. Action scenes in movies are too loud, while conversations between characters are barely audible. And it isn’t just moving pictures that struggle; music also seems to suffer. Highs and lows feel either too strong or weak, and mids are adequate at best. What’s going on?
One reason this happens to you, the consumer, is because you use different audio equipment from the pros who mix the sound, which creates a barrier between the two worlds. Those sound engineers in Abbey Road Studios utilise the sound-reproduction capabilities of some of the world’s finest high-performance loudspeakers while you, dear reader, use cans that can just about produce sound.
