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In Reply to: Many DVD player owners use only 2 channels/speakers!!! posted by Ken Chang on December 18, 2001 at 22:21:57:
funny you should post this nowjust this week i went back to watching dvds in "regular" stereo, and i really really like it, prefer it in fact.
i went the full route to HT, with full-range LCR speakers and high-tech, 360 degree ribbon drive monitors for the surrounds, all carefully dialed-in to THX specs, with a monster 18" velo sub. and seperate massive amps for each speaker--the whole, sick, audiophile obsession with magic wires, power conditioners, room acoustic treatments, technical grounds and dedicated lines...the horror!
this week i'm back to basic stereo.
what was i thinking?
what the hell do i do with all this stuff?
(fukn subwoofer has delaminated the plywood flooring of the living room!)
Follow Ups:
between watching Apocalypse Now Redux in two channel versus full blown surround sound?
yep, : the opening sequence with the chopper circling directly over your head really sets the mood -- it's one of the best sound moments in film--in a film loaded with best sound moments (clearly one of my top ten), and Col. Killgore's assualt on the surfing beach "...someday this war's gonna end." ...ok, there is a time and place for subwoofers and satellites
and I admit, that when I watched "Perfect Storm", with five full-range bastards each driven by their own mother-of-a-Madrigal amp, and the 18" Velo popping the roofing nails from my neighbor's houses--that storm was REAL! The windows caved-in and the basement flooded! It wasn't even close with just a regular HT multi-channel amp--more like a summer cloudburst that would quickly pass.
but all too often the effects channels detract rather than enhance
I've been hanging on to my Netflix rental of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and watching it over and over in ordinary stereo (Dep is brilliant!).
with the speakers (Audio Physic Virgos) well away from the front wall and driven properly by decent amplification (not HT amps)...
(wait 'til he sees these savage bats! )
...
(did I think that or say it out loud?)
i'm not much of a fan of the "13-year-old-boy" Hollywood blockbuster, with all the meaninless, spectacular violence and illogical action: your typical Dolby Digital fodder.
that being said:
"Apocalpyse Now Redux" has the best sound man in the business. take a very carful listen to the ambience next time you watch it: check out the scene at the bridge, at night. There's a calcaphony of noise all jumbled together which builds the tension and sets the mood of chaos, confusion, insanity....fear. And then pay very close attention to the sounds and they fade and focus on the gook at the wire screaming "Hey GI!" as the soldier "Roach" zeros in..."He's very close". Chilling.
Perhaps the best sound work in American Film, and you don't need Dolby Digital to know that. What you need is a carefully set-up audiophile grade stereo pair--something that embodies all the qualities we look for in a pruist analog high-end system.
great films with great sound men, gotta love it: turn the lights off
"turn out the light
"turn out the light
"turn out the light J. Morrison
and plan to over the holidays when I think I can get through all 3 hours or so in one evening. Don't want to break that one up!
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