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#166292 - 04/23/07 05:38 PM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: Hutzal]
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Registered: 12/25/02
Posts: 556
Loc: Ashburn, VA
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I dont have a bad dvd movie but I do have a few bad dvd concerts:
- "An Evening with Christopher Cross" DVD
- "Sting : The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre (2000)"
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#166293 - 04/23/07 06:55 PM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: JaimeG]
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Registered: 05/13/02
Posts: 4585
Loc: western canada
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Our absolute worst is Big Trouble in Little China.
Just awful sound. Mind you the movie is not new but it has both DTS and DD onboard and both are just horrendous. Sounds like mono but somehow in stereo.
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#166294 - 04/23/07 07:57 PM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: chesseroo]
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Registered: 04/01/03
Posts: 5190
Loc: Los Angeles
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Not in the home theatre respects, but we recently saw "Premonition" and "The Reaping" in the theatre. Both were really quite good up to the end. "Premonition" decided to go cornball in the last 60 seconds. "The Reaping" really fell apart in the last 5-10 minutes. Too bad too, they were both quite good up to that point.
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#166295 - 05/06/07 03:33 AM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: Hutzal]
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connoisseur
Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 1037
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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The Sound of Music-40th Anniversary Edition. This thing was supposed to be remastered in 5.0 Dolby Surround. Horrible sound tracking. If a character was a fraction of an inch off center the entire vocal went to full left or full right - very not seamless.
One high point, though, the pipe organ in the wedding scene was amazing! The EP500 just absolutely rocked the house.
Still a classic worth owning IMHO.
Scott
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#166296 - 05/06/07 10:52 AM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: Hutzal]
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Registered: 09/16/04
Posts: 3888
Loc: Marion, IA
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Casino Royale!
I had some guys over last night and we all agreed that the sound wasn't great. The dialog was generally clear, which is a plus, but the volume difference from "talking" scenes to "action" scenes was pretty big. I found myself adjusting the sound volume throughout the movie. The action scenes would have this very loud soundtrack cranked through them (I like things loud too). That is fine, but the scene before it was so much quieter. Maybe it was what seemed like a lacking soundtrack throughout. I mean it seemed like no musical score, and then a blasting song playing... I liked the movie, but the varience in sound level could have been better.
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#166298 - 05/07/07 03:10 AM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: nickbuol]
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Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 1037
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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I used to have this problem quite a bit more with my old Techniques avr. I figured that's just how home surround sound was supposed to be; super quiet dialogue and super loud effects. I've noticed it MUCH less with my new pre-pro. The emo also has a nice feature that allows you to set the dynamic range of the sound track, although I have not needed to make an adjustment yet.
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#166299 - 05/07/07 02:57 PM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: a401classic]
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Registered: 09/16/04
Posts: 3888
Loc: Marion, IA
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It is just with this one movie. I even played in on my regular TV with no receiver or axioms, and the volume would go up significantly for the soundtrack there too.
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#166300 - 05/07/07 11:45 PM
Re: Disappointing Movies? (Audio)
[Re: Mojo]
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Registered: 12/16/05
Posts: 1467
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I find that I am disappointed with most movies. At first I thought that it was related to my acoustically bright room and my lack of experience with a diffuse speaker design. But now I am starting to believe that the sound quality of most movie soundtracks is like most music CDs...flat and uninvolving. Just because something was recorded in DDD or 5.1 does not mean it's good.
A bunch of us watched U-571 (DTS) and The Matrix (Dolby 5.1) the other night. We were so engaged in U-571 (largely due to the soundtrack) that if the house started to burn down, I am sure we wouldn't have noticed. After a half hour of the Matrix, some of my guests were wondering if something got damaged while we were watching U-571; the difference in engagement was that great! And it wasn't the difference between DTS and Dolby 5.1 either. Or the fact that all of us had seen these shows before. The surround channels simply weren't that pronounced in the Matrix and that really took away from the entertainment experience. The audio still sounded full but it was a blah kind of full.
After everyone left, I boosted the surrounds by 7 dB and that made a huge difference to The Matrix. But I really don't believe that what I was hearing is what the sound engineer intended. The sound planes shifted so much that they didn't really mesh with the action on the screen.
What's really interesting about all of this psychologically and physiologically is that I am now drawn to music and movies that have incredible SQ even if I am not a big fan of the music or the video content itself.
I'm always playing with the surrounds during a movie.
Lots of movies are just different. I, for one, really enjoyed the matrix sound...the lobby scene sounded amazing.
I would highly recommend running a DSP program when you show a movie. Yamaha's programs add so much to the dynamics, it really is amazing.
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