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The Blu-Ray standard supports eight or nine audio codecs. Some of these may be poorly rendered by your Blu-Ray player or television setup.

If you have "surround sound" speakers, Dolby 5.1, whatever, there may be something amiss there.

We just have a plain old 1080p television with a left speaker and a right speaker.

My wife and I probably don't see or hear well enough to appreciate Blu-Ray. Or maybe DVDs are so much better than the video tape cassettes we used to rent we don't expect anything more.

Thanks for the heads up on "First Man."


On Edit: I just went up to check our television. You might want to check the "DRC" (Dynamic Range Compression) feature in the audio setup menu of your television. Switching it "on" may be helpful in movies like this. The setting might also be called "Loudness" or "Normalization." It's not something you want to leave on for ordinary soundtracks.