Oh, so it was not just me. Ten years ago I was able to listen to movies in English without subtitles and now I need to enable subtitles again unless I have headphones on
https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/
"I appreciate SDF but it's a general-purpose server and the name doesn't make it obvious that it's about art." - Eugen Rochko