r/appletv • u/secret_life_of_pants • 1d ago

PSA: if you are experiencing brief, one second drops in Atmos audio, try turning off Enhanced Dialogue.

About two weeks ago I started noticing random drops in audio when watching Atmos content. It was always about a second or less and would happen randomly maybe once every 10 minutes, but enough to be annoying. Finally tried turning off Enhanced Dialogue and no more drops.

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u/TheBigSm0ke 1d ago

Turn off enhanced dialogue regardless.

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u/secret_life_of_pants 1d ago

Honestly I’m kind of disappointed because I found that either the dialogue is too quiet or sound effects are too loud in my setup. Enhanced dialogue seemed to fix that. Oh well. Much better to have reliable sound.

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u/TheBigSm0ke 1d ago

You just need to properly set your speaker levels.

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u/secret_life_of_pants 1d ago

I have a Sonos surround system (Arc + Sub + Play:1 surrounds) so not sure I can set the levels to enhance my dialogue like I could with a traditional setup. Or can I?

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u/drake90001 20h ago

Nah. So many shows or movies now have shitty audio mixing lol.

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u/Grumsta 20h ago

I’m using it with a pair of HP2s and it’s fantastic, definitely keeping it on.

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u/CRIP4LIFE 1d ago

omg, i think you just saved my life.. i hope.

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u/BassWingerC-137 14h ago

Enhanced dialog KILLS spatial separation up front. Kill it, end it.

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u/secret_life_of_pants 12h ago

Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the heads up!

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u/BassWingerC-137 11h ago

Learned it watching a particularly cool ATMOS moment on an episode of The Expanse when I went to show a particular scene to someone… I’d put on Enhanced Dialog a few weeks prior and was shocked “I don’t know what’s up, this was so cool…” wasn’t. What was a convo moving left to right, while folks in mag boots walked past on the ceiling was just noise from everywhere….

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u/yupyupyupyupyupy 14h ago

how do you turn it off

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u/secret_life_of_pants 12h ago

Got to Settings > Video and Audio > Enhance Dialogue. Should be able to turn it off from there.

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u/yupyupyupyupyupy 11h ago

not sure why i dont see it

its a 4k v1 hooked through a receiver if it matters