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Why do I have to turn the volume up or down when I watch movies?

  • January 5, 2025
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Good afternoon, I have a Beam gen2 bar and two era 300, I am somewhat disappointed because I have to lower and raise the volume depending on whether there is dialogue in the movie or if there is music or sounds, I don't know if this is normal because it is very annoying to have to be with the controller in your hand to decrease or increase the volume.
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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • January 5, 2025

The sound levels are set by the audio mixer of the film or program. A soundbar can only play the data at the volume it’s sent. 
 

You could try the settings in the Sonos app, which might (or might not) help. 


Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • January 5, 2025

The Beam only has one level of dialog enhancement, the Arc also. The Arc Ultra has three which is why I upgraded.

I really hate most movies where you need to turn on closed captions or blow out everyone else in the house to have the dialog loud enough to hear. The Ultra helped this.


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  • Contributor I
  • January 6, 2025
Ok, thank you very much, I suppose that the dialogue is heard low and the ambient sound or music very loud depends on the movie. thank you so much