What do you use to show off your Home Theater

All great movies but how about any STAR WARS sound highs and lows explode at once and Im not a scifi nut I just know awesome when I see it on spike right now.on my 42 inch 420 m vizio LCD 120hz java set true sound.Yamaha suround 300 watt speaker system theater with a10 inch Loleta floor direct base and old klipch for a center speaker
 
I would say Iron Man is a good one. It starts out with AC/DC's "Back In Black" and then gets really wicked with the sound effects during the action scenes. It can rattle the whole house.
 
For Music DVD I use Peter Gabriel's "Growing up" tour. Sledgehammer gives a true sledge through the baseline after the intro. So impressive with outstanding picture- and sound-quality.

The Eagles are great too, I use the farewell Tour I, where "You belong to the City" always is a pleasure to listen.

When it comes to movies I always use "The Bucket List" with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. The scene where they are in the plane and jumping with the parachutes in to the deep is WHOA and gives always belly tickle when seeing it on the big canvas. The roaring sound of the Shelby Mustang in the next scene overlayed with "Radar Love" finishes this and leaves every visitor I have impressed on the couch after only about 5 minutes of watching in total. Highly recommended!!!!

Beside it's a wonderful movie itself.
 
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This is a fun thread to read from the start. You can see a bit of how times have changed.

I use House of Flying Daggers on Blu-ray as my reference movie. It usually makes people who normally don't think surround is special rethink that position. I haven't heard another movie where the surround is used like a brush. Most movies they seem to just pump some sound into the rears, or make a jet plane fly over. War movies just tend to put some explosions in the rears. HofFD however paints the sound all arouond you and it is clean and clear. Listen to the Brothel Echo scene or the Bamboo Forest scene and you will be amazed at how the sound is used. I wish more Hollywood movies would take the time to use sound that way.

The amazing thing is it isn't even a fancy audio format. It's just plain old uncompressed PCM. Try it, you'll like it.
 
Watched District 9 last night. When the mother ship wakes up and gets ready to take off, I thought my house was going with it. No kidding, the LF waves were just incredible. Good disk to test the limits of your system.
 
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I may have missed it, but I don't think I've seen Master and Commander: the far side of the world listed yet. When I want to blow someone away with the HT demo, that disc comes out every time. From the subtle creaking of the ship and the splashing waves, to the full on cannon battle. Gets em every time.
 
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I may have missed it, but I don't think I've seen Master and Commander: the far side of the world listed yet. When I want to blow someone away with the HT demo, that disc comes out every time. From the subtle creaking of the ship and the splashing waves, to the full on cannon battle. Gets em every time.
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While not quite a dramatic as the cannon exchanges, the footsteps of the crew running on deck that sound like they're coming from upstairs are pretty good too.
 
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Black Hawk Down has (as far as I know) the lowest recorded bass of any DVD or recording ever. If you want to check out your subs, somewhere in Ch4 right when someone say’s "F**K Irene" there is a 10-12Hz fundamental from the Blackhawk’s in the background. I had to watch my sub (cone move) while the scene was playing to believe it, it didn’t even rattle anything in the room, just light pressure pulses from the corners of the room beating on your chest. It’s quite an impressive effect if your sub will go that low (in room) and you can get enough amplitude to feel full glory of the low blade pulses. My dual Maelstrom 18” Sonosubs will do moderate levels in room during this scene, but I can only imagine how much better a Tumult or 2 must feel like during this passage.
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Blackhawk Down..Emmy nominated "best Soundtrack" and another good one is U571..
 
Only on Blu-ray.

For Picture: "Toy Story 2" & "Speed Racer".
For Sound: "LOTR Trilogy" & "Domino". (And "Master & Commander", of course, how could I almost forgot that one.)

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Master and commander for sure, I actually just watched the first scene now, I came on here to get more ideas for good movies to test with!

I am very familiar with all of the sounds that are made aboard a sailing vessel (hemp rope and wood blocks, etc), and the sound engineers have done an amazing job capturing the audio and mixing it.
 
Have to love it when a thread from 2003/4 gets revived in 2010. I did a double-take when I started seeing so many posts from Thor again! :D

A lot of stores here still use many of the same movies mentioned back then for demo-ing HT gear. Not much has changed! At least one place typically shows the King Kong movie (the remake from a few years ago), especially the fight scene between KK and the T-Rexes where they crash down through the aerial tree roots. I would predict that Avatar will soon be added to the list (especially once 3-D gear comes out: then it and Clash of the Titans will probably begin to dominate the showrooms, along with trays or baskets of 3-D glasses).



VinylHanger said:
Debby does Dallas, or any of the Taboo movies with Tajea Rea...oh, wait those movies don't sound very good......Oh, well...I don't have a HT system either, but with these movies, I've never noticed :D

Does anybody know if the Japanese movie Ran has been put on DVD? I would get a HT system up just for that movie alone.
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I just did a search for "Tajea Rea" on Google. The ONLY direct hit was the above post from this thread, and a few partial matches from foreign-language sites. Anyone know the correct spelling of the name, so I can see what (whom) VinylHanger was referring to? VinylHanger, can you double-check the spelling, for the rest of us curious males? :D
 
Wanted DVD with Angelina Jolie Voight, Morgan Freeman, and James McAvoy, is a fantastic movie for audio and video. The surround effects and Dynamic Range are off the hook, especially in Blue Ray!

I can not over state this movie too strongly. Especially listening/viewing on an all McIntosh 7.1 DTS system, including projector in wall McIntosh rears and Stewart Screen on a wall painted Eqqshell Black. 135" of high def video! Mind blowing effects, and super sharp picture quality. I have the special edition box set with all the extras from Amazon.Com for 39.99 used. The Bullet Bending scenes are ssmokin

Next favorite is: House of Flying Daggars, my previous demo DVD

Third previous: Eagles, Hell Freezes Over..DTS

After that: any Star Wars Prequils, esp. the Light-saber duals.

My Blue Ray player is NOT McIntosh, but a good used Marantz BD 7004. McIntosh didn't have a Blue Ray player at the time, but when a good nicely priced used one comes my way, I will be pulling the trigger on the MVP 881 player. My current McIntosh Piece is the MVP871. I figure selling both units will get me 3/4 of the way there for a used 881, if not all the way, if I am patient and wait a few years.

All this IMHO,...check out Wanted!

Peace,

Phil
 
newguy1 said:
Master and commander for sure, I actually just watched the first scene now, I came on here to get more ideas for good movies to test with!

I am very familiar with all of the sounds that are made aboard a sailing vessel (hemp rope and wood blocks, etc), and the sound engineers have done an amazing job capturing the audio and mixing it.
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+1 :thmbsp:
 
Star Wars, Planet Earth, Lord of the Rings, Allison Kraus and Union Station live, Harry Potter, anything with lots of action and dramatic sound tracks
 
I'm sure it has been mentioned before, but just for iterating it again with a stronger emphasis: BARAKA on BD. :thmbsp:
 
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newguy1 said:
Master and commander for sure, I actually just watched the first scene now, I came on here to get more ideas for good movies to test with!

I am very familiar with all of the sounds that are made aboard a sailing vessel (hemp rope and wood blocks, etc), and the sound engineers have done an amazing job capturing the audio and mixing it.
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last year i bought the blu ray of 'master and commander' but i have yet to watch it on my projector/screen setup.
i did see the sd dvd a few years ago and loved it.
 
kung fu hustle is another good one on dvd. With the chinese stringed instruments of death. Very musical quality to test your upper freqs, and plenty of hard hitting impact to satisy your subs for the evening.

Tons of humor as well.
 
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