Sputter

Thanks JSS. I guess I'm going to have to rent Looper again to see what I'm missing. I watched it with the wife at -12 MV. If a particular scene caught my LFE interest, then I'd replay at reference after finishing the movie. Nothing really caught my 'ear' the first round...from the looks of the ratings, it should have!

 

Perhaps it's just the scenes that Bosso grabbed? But just comparing the scenes above between Recall and Looper, you would think Recall would definitely be the better ULF film when comparing the two.

 

Does anyone else feel this way?

It was for me but Recall was more 'action' oriented ie more of it for longer periods of time. Both are equally good for thier storylines. imho

Watching Dredd last night I noticed I wasn't getting 7.1. I had to switch from PCM to Bit stream on my player for 7.1. Is this normal, I assumed PCM and Bit Stream would have been the same.

Max, it was the DTSHDMA 5.1 version of Looper.

I am going to exchange my copy for a new one.

It'll be interesting to hear if it makes a difference. Mine was fine.

It does have tons of ULF. Anyone else want to bump Immortals up to 4-Star execution? More 'ayes' than 'nays' will change the rating. I am on the fence on this one....

 

JSS

I recall liking it, I wouldn't be embarassed to say 4 for execution.

I'll link the new TASM graphs to the ratings post for TASM, thanks for adding the BD content as well, Bosso!

 

Now, for a surprise:

 

The Dark Knight Returns:

 

Level - 5 Stars (281.71dBHz)!!!!!!!!!

Extension - 3 Stars (18Hz)

Dynamics - 5 Stars (27.8dB)

Execution - 3 Stars - A majority of the film is highpassed, take a look at the average graph. But note that the levels are so high that even while highpassed, a good bit of ULF is present (check the MaxMin graphs below). The sound is done poorly in this film, bass included. One star for the highpass, one star for lack of crispness and overall 'honky' and 'compressed' sound of the track as a whole. While without doubt the loudest bass movie ever recorded, it lacks quality. I mean, does the damn score have to be blaring at nearly 95dB while dialogue is going on? Crazy. I had to increase the dB scales for both the PvA and the MaxMin graphs to accomodate this film.

 

Overall - 4 Stars

 

Recommendation - Definitely Rent. This track will test any system, but could have been so much better.

 

Please see the comaprison to WotW and FotP.

 

JSS

Max, I was going to comment on the sound track but noticed you mentioned it just as I was hitting 'quote' lol. It was such a bad sounding track and lacking in definition, it almost sucked having to listen to it. (imho) Of course don't say that on AVS, I tried but a quite a few people thought it sounded great. Go figure.

Updated TR. Had to change a scene (forgot to change the SL cap in it) and I added a scene. I plan to buy the BR and check if the levels are higher. I suspect they are.

Dave,what was the source of your graphs? dvd?

Hmm...

 

Do we need to run Audacity captures on individual channels to see where the clipping is?

 

I'm thinking of giving Total Recall 4 star execution (4.5 overall), and a RENT recommendation. Anyone disagree?

 

JSS

Sounds right to me if you're basing it on the story, Audio/Visual it's a blind buy.

I'm going to add it to my collection because audio/visual is darn good. The story was just ok for me but it's worth another watch imho.

Marc, I also enjoy your posts.

No doubt we are a very tiny group vs the rest of the population even though we are likely the most interested. I don't know the dollars and cents of it, would it really add that much more cost to the project to work with those last few Hz? I suppose it's time and money and the lion share of production is 120-20hz. I'm curious just how much more days/cost it might be.

Jim