[SML] hdmi audio booster

[Richard John Archer]

Maybe it's just the little tiny speakers on most LED tv's.   Saw one of these in the catalogue.   Then again some of us are of a certain age where maybe we just can't hear anymore….

http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=84896

Age aside, I was watching an old (1958) episode of Perry Mason on "Me TV"  and was amazed at how little background "noise" was in the way of hearing the dialogue.  ……and no ramp of of "dramatic" music just before the commercial break so you can get around  FCC rule  "  the commercial can't be louder than the show"  ….… (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act {CALM})  …think about the commercial break in just about any Bellisario  produced current TV series..

DickA
TDF, Cornell U




On Aug 16, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft wrote:

> Is there such a beast?  Back before digital TV I could put a compressor
> in the audio line and tweak levels if needed.  Now there's no access to
> the audio and some movies are so quiet we can't hear them with the
> volume all the way up.
> 
> If this exists then the only other thing would be a way to get the
> ^%$%#@! audio to sync up on some videos.  Seems we've taken a few steps
> back with the way compression has been implemented.
> 
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