Found a trick for watching shows with bad audio mixing

I got tired of missing dialogue in shows like Tenet and The Batman where the music drowns out everything. Cranking volume just made the action scenes hurt my ears. So I tried turning on subtitles and lowering the volume to a comfortable level for quiet parts. It sounds weird but now I can actually follow the story without jumping for the remote every 5 minutes. Has anyone else done this or found a better way to handle shows that mix sound poorly?

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the_angela1d ago

Actually it's not the mixing that's bad on Tenet. Christopher Nolan intentionally did that for the time travel vibe.

charles_wilson1d ago

Yeah but even if it was intentional, the dialogue in Tenet is straight up buried in a lot of scenes. I rewatched it on a proper home theater setup and I still had to crank the center channel like crazy. Nolan has been doing this since The Dark Knight Rises honestly, I think he just prioritizes the sound design score over people being able to catch every word.