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The Cinema Standard in a Living Room

Why 85 dBC per channel is unbearable at home and what the listening standards do about it, the placement angles that matter and the ones that do not, the subwoofer crawl, and what automatic room correction genuinely cannot do.

Topic
Fundamentals
Level
Advanced
Format
Lesson
Time
13 min

Take the cinema standard from the previous lesson into a living room and the first number breaks immediately. Eighty-five decibels per channel is a comfortable reference in an auditorium of a few hundred seats and genuinely punishing across a two-hour film at home.

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