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Originally Posted by Wittmann
When people are speaking, to drown out their voices with some insane row is downright disgusting. Sometimes an old gentleman is sitting in his room relating his experiences in WW1 or WW2 and the cretins who produce the program drown his frail voice out with some infernal racket. Other times even the program presenters commentary is drowned out by this attitude to destroy everything a person says with some unimaginable racket.
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As we get older we tend to loose hearing preferentially in the part of the audio spectrum that encompasses speech. If you are listening to the audio via your TV's built in loud speakers the problem is compounded. The sound mix is probably prepared by engineers with younger ears and a better sound system than we are hearing it on.
Some audio systems are designed to work around this issue and have a speech boost setting to lift the speech component relative to the background noise. My Yamaha RX-V673 amplifier/receiver has a setting called "Dialogue Lift" for us oldies.