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For the love of whatever you hold dear, please implement this feature. We’ve been asking for it for years. 
 

On some movies, the center channel is just too quiet. For example, I’m watching Interstellar on Paramout + via AppleTV. It is showing as multichannel pcm 7.1 on the app. The dialog is coming through at the relative volume of a forum post in a 6pt font in lower case. Everything else is like a 32pt font screed in all-caps. (Which is how I wish I could write this post)


Dedicated receivers have had this ability for decades. Stop considering this as a feature beneath you and just give it to us.

 

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Why don’t you complain to the director of Interstellar, as well, who approved the audio mix that is sent through your TV to the Sonos Arc?

While you wait to see if this eventually gets implemented (and based on all the other threads, they have a lot still to do to get to parity with the older version of the app), have you tried the options that Sonos does supply, as mentioned in the speech enhancement FAQ and the night mode FAQ?

Ah Interstellar, the movie Nolan actually created a sound mix causing cinemas to have to tell people coming to see the movie that their sound system isn’t actually broken. Nolan deliberately chose to drown out the voices with other audio in the mixes.

There are limits to what any audio equipment can do when a directors decision for artistic reasons deliberately doesn’t make things easy to hear.

At least at home one can turn on the subtitles...

Hi @ForumUser 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

Ugly but it works:

Turn off the surrounds.

Grab some towels from the closet and cover both ends of the Arc with several layers.

Prepare for the spouse to question your sanity, but approve of the improved speech levels.

Give up and turn on subtitles.

 

Don’t care who is at fault here, just missing my AVR where it only took a couple seconds to boost the center channel.

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