Swans M50W

[gl3nnn]

Do any of you own the speakers in the title?

 

I've owned my Swans M50W for about 1 year plus. When watching movies, the voices tend to get rather soft (i want to say muffled, but its not really the accurate description) while the background music and sound effects are really clear and distinct, it becomes really hard to hear the actors' dialogues, this makes me turn the volume up just to hear them speak clearly which causes the background sound effects to become even louder to an uncomfortable level for me (i can feel my surroundings and table vibrate), i don't want to wake up my whole house in the middle of the night. 

 

I have the M50W connected to a Creative sound blaster Z. Whats the issue here? Am i the only M50W owner having this issue?

[Guest]

"Recessed" is probably the word you're looking for.

 

These are generally well-regarded speakers; it could be that you aren't getting 5.1 sound properly mixed down to two channels. Normally, the center channel in a surround system handles about 70% of the dialog. Without that, it's up to your receiver or computer to mix the audio down to stereo.

[gl3nnn]

"Recessed" is probably the word you're looking for.

 

These are generally well-regarded speakers; it could be that you aren't getting 5.1 sound properly mixed down to two channels. Normally, the center channel in a surround system handles about 70% of the dialog. Without that, it's up to your receiver or computer to mix the audio down to stereo.

 

Is there any way to resolve or improve the issue?

[Guest]

Is there any way to resolve or improve the issue?

 

This all assuming that it isn't the speakers at fault, of course.

 

There may be some setting you can play around with in your audio drivers - selecting/deselecting headphone mode, etc.

 

You could try an equalizer; a light boost to the range from 2-6kHz ought to improve the presence of vocals. This ought to help no matter the cause of the problem.

 

Failing that, the expensive option is to get a receiver and connect it via optical or hdmi from your GPU. You can set how many speakers you are running on one of those and it will mix down the audio properly.

 

Final possibility is just that the moves you're watching have badly recorded dialog.