A:Answer My experience with the w studio is the opposite of the person who answered first. Speech clarity is one of the great strengths of this unit. The quality of its speakers is very high and they are very clear. More importantly, it has three separate volume controls. One controls the overall loudness of the speakers. A second controls the volume of the sub woofer. The third controls the volume of the center channel - where most of the speech comes from. As a result, you can turn down the overall volume to just slightly lower than normal and increase the center channel volume so that speech is slightly louder than the overall system volume. Thus, the speech is easier to hear.
