maxmercy Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 San Andreas - Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1 Analyzed) Level - 5 Stars (113.79 dB composite) Extension - 2 Stars (21Hz) Dynamics - 3 Stars (23.82dB) Execution - TBD Overall - TBD Recommendation - TBD Comments - High SPL and rolled off (like Thor and Pacific Rim), but ZERO clipping (unlike Thor and Pacific Rim). This is non-dynamic, filtered high SPL done right. Good to see a a clean presentation in a loud film. I'm sure significant digital compression was used as from a zoomed out-perspective, I expected to see clipping at -0.5dB everywhere, but no flat-tops were found upon closer inspection. JSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan611 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Not the best movie, but the audio was well done I thought. I thought it might go lower, so that's a bit disappointing. I do own it, but voted to rent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audiofreak71 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I agree with you Rowan611 so so movie audio was nice but I wished it had more extention in the low end, I figured for what the movie was about it would be all about ULF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I wasn't all that impressed with this audio track for whatever reason. It reminded me of STID in the fact that it was just so LOUD, LOUD, LOUD which is reinforced by the dynamics score. At least it is a clean loud I suppose unlike STID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 Star Trek 2009 showed you can have a 5-Star level, >30dB dynamics and a relatively clean presentation all in one film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Star Trek 2009 showed you can have a 5-Star level, >30dB dynamics and a relatively clean presentation all in one film. ST 2009 is one of my favorite audio tracks. Wish STID would have had the same sound design as the 2009 film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MemX Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 ST 2009 is one of my favorite audio tracks. Wish STID would have had the same sound design as the 2009 film. I'm not laying money either way on whether the next one will be good or bad in the sound department! I do wish the directors and sound people on these films could visit Bosso and the other big systems with single digit Hz playback, to really understand what they should be mixing (and so they can suffer ST:ID at the level they inflict on us if we're trying to listen to it properly!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredhead Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 SAN ANDREAS (Atmos soundtrack defaulted to 7.1 Dolby True HD) (taken from sub out with 7 channels re-directed) Scale: 33:50 36:05 37:23 38:25 40:45 41:54 55:25 1:25:00 Someone please tell me the reasoning behind putting a filter on the soundtrack to a movie about an earthquake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeamdman Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 First post edited to read non-dynamic and filtered high SPL done right. BTW, I only mean clean presentation in the fact that there are no flat-tops. Lots of compression or soft limiting does beat flat tops, but not by much. JSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredhead Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating here. After all it's just a fun earthquake movie with the Rock and there are plenty of worse soundtracks for bass. I just imagine the guy behind the mixing console who was looking at footage of a city crumbling and figured, "HPF at 20Hz makes sense for this one." Blows my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MemX Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Can we not stalk these people through evil facebook or similar, and send them links to these threads to make our views clearly known? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infrasonic Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Someone please tell me the reasoning behind putting a filter on the soundtrack to a movie about an earthquake. Because LOUD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infrasonic Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating here. After all it's just a fun earthquake movie with the Rock and there are plenty of worse soundtracks for bass. I just imagine the guy behind the mixing console who was looking at footage of a city crumbling and figured, "HPF at 20Hz makes sense for this one." Blows my mind. First of all, they don't think like that. Second, because they are doing playback on a system like a cinema usually has which is many ported 18's tuned in the 25-30hz range. Pretty much every cinema on the planet is set up like that. That's why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredhead Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I like MemX's idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluescale Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Can we not stalk these people through evil facebook or similar, and send them links to these threads to make our views clearly known? lol They would just point you back to the AVS review where the film is given a 100 out of 100 for audio: http://www.avsforum.com/san-andreas-3d-blu-ray-review/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 Something tells me Ralph Potts loves compressed pop and techno music, because this film is the equivalent. JSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaea Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 The dam burst scene was really quite incredible, and a cut above the rest of the film in my opinion (as far as fun audio intensity) - having just watched it a couple nights back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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