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Feb 05, 2006

Poor Super Bowl Audio Mix?

Was it me, or was the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mix for today's Super Bowl out of balance? I have a nicely calibrated system, but the center channel audio from Al Michaels and John Madden was much quieter than the ambient crowd noise. The crowd noise itself was quite loud from the rear channels. ABC's Monday Night Football usually sounds much more balanced on my system.

Some folks on AVSForum think it might have been an issue with the local affiliates. That would be KGO-TV, in my case.

Update: I watched the game via antenna, which delivers a better picture than the Comcast DVR [superbowlcomcastdvr, comcastdvrwar, comcastdvrdst, newcomcastdvr, comcastdvrdead, comcastdvrdelete, comcastdvravsforum, comcastdvrcodes]. Folks on the Yahoo HDTV SFBay group noted that the sound was fine over Comcast, but bad via OTA.

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