Bob believes that modern media sound mixing often causes frustration by creating extreme disparities between dialogue and effect volumes.

“I have I have kind of bad hearing sometimes I've always felt like movies and TV I'm like why the [ __ ] did you mix it so that the explosions make my entire house rattle but then the conversations at normal human volume are like it's like I don't want my I don't want the volume that loud”

Mark suggests that sound mixers often damage their own hearing throughout their careers, which potentially affects their professional judgment regarding audio standards.

“It's damaging and just because so many of these sound mixers have blown their ears out through their careers and so many people who do music have literally damaged their hearing so people don't understand that people have been doing music for a long time and can form these opinions their ears are si”