I play on a nice surround sound system and so far, all my games (except Halo) sound amazing.
In Halo 4, I can’t hear the music all that well.
In cutscenes, the sound quality drops for some reason and everything sounds muffled.
In the campaign, the music just isn’t loud enough. I’m playing through the broadsword trench part and I barely hear the epic music over the sound of explosions and gun fire.
At the end of the last level when you are flying over the man cannons, I only hear the epic “inspirational” music when I take cover and the gunfire stops.
What is weird is that the music is fine in Spartan Opa. I can hear it perfectly there.
Sadly, I think this issue will be overlooked. Of all the things Halo 4 copied from Call of Duty, I wish one of them could have been audio options. I would turn up the music in a heartbeat.