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Gwc206
Contributor I
January 22, 2016
Answered

Dialogue level through playbar

Is there anyway to make the dialogue louder in my TV? The background sound is booming but we really have to turn it up to hear the dialogue. We have a play bar and sub and two play:1s for surround. Thank you.
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Daniel H
Daniel HAnswer
Sonos Employee
January 27, 2016
Hi Gwc206, afraid this is currently not possible, but we will make sure to pass on your feedback.
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sheareb
Trending Lyricist I
September 17, 2017
I have mine hooked to sony tv with variable volume enabled which means it shows some level of volume on the tv as i adjust the playbase - not sure how accurate it is but at present, im watchi g sky and its at 69%. I know there seems to ve a deadzone up to 15% but watching on the speakers i usually have abt 30% volume albeit totally appreciate its far from apples to apples!
andrewh
Contributor I
November 27, 2017
Time to raise this issue again dear Sonos. Such wonderful gear but such very average speech quality. Yes Voice Enhancement is on. But my goodness, this needs to be a focus!
    kylecnorton
    Lyricist I
    February 21, 2018
    +1 to this issue. Really disappointing
      sal995
      Lyricist I
      May 13, 2018
      Im having same issue where dialogue is coming in playbar and only music from my back play 1's you cannot hear what the people in a movie is saying can you not adjust the sound or match the sound to be the same as the playbar so it all sounds the same until you fix this common known issue. We now are using only the playbar for sound and have all the play 1 turned off as this is getting annoying where there is no fix for this
        gunkadoodah
        Lyricist III
        June 18, 2018
        Agreed this is and has been a major issue on our soundbar for 3 years now. No updates, trueplay tunings, speech enhancements, or night modes fix the issue. Always need to have the volume slider at the ready. Very disappointing
          Chris
          Chris
          Lead Maestro
          June 18, 2018
          Must be TV related how it passes as I never have dialog issues - especially with speech enhancement on.
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          gunkadoodah
          Lyricist III
          June 18, 2018
          Must be TV related how it passes as I never have dialog issues - especially with speech enhancement on.

          I wonder how this can be fixed as we have experienced this problem through both a Samsung plasma and an LG OLED TV, playing content through Apple TV.
          Chris
          Chris
          Lead Maestro
          June 18, 2018
          what about via other sources. Maybe the appletv compresses the sound in a manner causes you issues (as it also is dependent on of course persons hearing ranges).
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          Chris
          Chris
          Lead Maestro
          June 18, 2018
          https://www.cultofmac.com/396048/pro-tip-get-your-apple-tv-sounding-just-right/
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          josueluly
          Lyricist I
          July 30, 2018
          This is a mayor drawback. Whenever there’s action scenes, dialogue gets lost. It’s not clear. In many cases, I have to pit subtitles to avoid missing a line. Just needs more focus on the center channel range. Need clearer dialogues. Please...here us out.
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