As well you should. Turn up the volume as loud as you like.
The point is that DialNorm is not a dynamic range filter and does not change the mix in any way. It is a global volume setting, the purpose of which is to start all movies at a similar default volume.
Beause DTS doesn't use DialNorm...
Dialogue Normalization does not change the center channel. It sets a default volume for the entire soundtrack. It's no different than raising or lowering the Volume setting on your recevier. It just uses the sound of dialogue as a baseline so that all movies are approximately the same loudness...
That so-called "signature sound" is mostly just based upon the fact that Dolby soundtracks are authored with Dialogue Normalization to establish a common baseline volume between multiple movies, while DTS tracks don't use DialNorm. This results in most DTS tracks being encoded with a default...
Again, it's not Dolby or DTS doing that. These are just encoding formats. They can deliver whatever is put into them. That's a sound mixing decision.
Dolby and DTS do not mix the audio themselves. Every movie has its own sound mixing team to do that work.
This is not a Dolby issue. It is not a DTS issue. It is a sound mixing issue.
The modern trend toward crushing dynamic range in movie soundtracks first starting making news in home theater circles back in 2015 with the DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track on the Blu-ray release on Avengers: Age of...
I'll still buy it (as I did Natural Born Killers), but yeah, that's a disappointment. Especially since the theartrical cut of this movie was nominated for Best Picture - and won for Best Editing!
Typical Oliver Stone, though. The Academy hands his film an Oscar for Best Editing and the first...