Why is the dialogue so quiet in my movies? - The Audio Players & Recorders

do you have a center channel speaker hooked up? Most dialogue in movies should come from the center channel.

Dialogue comes from the center speaker usually. If you are only using two speakers, then you must set the receiver for stereo output only.

Check your center channel. Most dialogue is routed to the center channel in surround.

Goto the DVD movie main Menu look for Close Captioning turn it off.Will have no more dialogue printed on the screen bottom.

Your center channel speaker is not working. In modern 5.1 movies dialogue only comes from the center channel. Older movies were stereo/mono so the dialogue would come from both the front speakers.
See if the speaker wires are intact and not loose. After that to confirm if the speaker is OK or defective exchange the center speaker with one of the working ones.If the center speaker does not produce sound, you will have to replace it. But if it works, that would mean that your center channel amplifier is not working & for that you will need professional help.
CHECK CABLES FIRST FOR LOOSE CONTACTS.

Hello there,

It sounds like everything is working correctly to me. Voices / spoken dialogue should mostly be from the front speakers and surround audio (music, effects, etc) from all speakers.

The TV screen is in front of you so the people on the TV screen are also (technically) in front of you. Naturally, I would expect the spoken dialogue to come from the front speakers only - except in some instances, where dialogue in the movie is from a character not currently on screen. If you had voices from both in front of and behind you when the characters are only in front of you, it would be totally disorientating.

If you have audio from all five speakers during a movie then all of your connections and settings are correct. The problem you are describing is really just a description of how surround sound works.

I hope this helps. If I misunderstood the question or the problem, please let me know.

Regards,
BElectric.

turn the other speaker decibal levels down then increse main volume until you are satisfied.

Hey there, When it comes to 5.1 speaker systems (from my knowledge anyway) the central front speaker in this case the one looking like WALL-E's head is the speaker that outputs the dialogue in games/movies. So, with this said, have a quick look and see that there are no wire-frays, all is connected "well and proper" and then test it out on a movie/cut-scene of a game you know well and listen in close to it to see if it's working.
Hope this helped,
Jared