It only matters when you see someone speaking directly at the audience - pretty often it's directed from side or backwards or whatever. Then again, sports it doesn't matter either, as the commentators are off-screen, and music is just music. It's annoying when watching a movie, or news, or that kind of stuff.
We don't watch that often enough to matter, but we thought there was an easy fix, or adjustment we couldn't find. We played around with the buttons, it set itself a little better and good enough. IF we don't like it, we turn off the soundbar and just listen to TV. Seems like it's a common problem, and if the manufacturers ignore it, we will too :) Thanks for the comments. B & G