Good DVD for center channel testing?

[corey]

I'm looking for suggestions for DVD's with scenes with good dialogue for center channel speaker testing. Perhaps with a bunch of people walking around & talking, so that voices move between L R & C speakers.

Any thoughts?

[j_garcia]

I don't understand? Pretty much ANY DVD with a decent recording will do this.

[GregBe]

If you are looking for voice matching between your L/C/R, the Pixar movies have a ton of voices that pan across the front three. The Toy Story movies come to mind, but I think all of their films do this quite a bit.

If you are looking for straight dialogue out of the center channel, try X2. The opening scene has Patrick Stewart's voice isolated. With the deep extension of his voice, you can see how the bass sounds out of your center speaker. If it sounds too chesty or too thin, keep looking.

[corey]

I don't understand? Pretty much ANY DVD with a decent recording will do this.

Maybe I watch too many action/adventure movies. I'm trying to think of scenes with people just sitting or walking around talking. Something that will highlight differences between a very small, poor proforming center & something more substantial.

I've got both Toy Story's. I'll give them a try.

[j_garcia]

OK, that makes more sense. How about Eagles: Hell Freezes Over DTS? Lots of center channel activity blended with the mains. Maybe something that splits the difference like Pulp Fiction - fairly dialogue intensive, but will still fill the need for a little adrenaline :D Crash.

[MACCA350]

This might be what your after. 'The Incredibles' the scene where Mr Incredible is in his bosses office, as the boss is pacing left and right, his voice follows him on screen through and between all 3 front speakers, great soundtrack:D

cheers:)

[ParadigmDawg]

'The Incredibles' has become my favorite movie for "showing off" my system. I play it where the dialog is fairly quite so everyone is just kicked back and thinking "this guy paid ...what... for this system" and then the action kicks in and it blows you away. You can see the grins come on everyone's face and then they just start laughing. So far after this audition all I have heard is wow...

[j_garcia]

Animals and small children run when I put on The Incredibles...

[ParadigmDawg]

My neighbor knocked on the door to make sure everything was ok and our houses arent that close together.

What fun!

[GlocksRock]

'The Incredibles' has become my favorite movie for "showing off" my system. I play it where the dialog is fairly quite so everyone is just kicked back and thinking "this guy paid ...what... for this system" and then the action kicks in and it blows you away. You can see the grins come on everyone's face and then they just start laughing. So far after this audition all I have heard is wow...
What chapter on the movie is this?

I've been using the opening chapter from Toy Story II to demo my system, so if I can find something better, or a little different I'd love to give it a try.

[Nuglets]

'The Incredibles' has become my favorite movie for "showing off" my system. I play it where the dialog is fairly quite so everyone is just kicked back and thinking "this guy paid ...what... for this system" and then the action kicks in and it blows you away. You can see the grins come on everyone's face and then they just start laughing. So far after this audition all I have heard is wow...

I think it would be more impressive if the dialog is where it should be as well as everything else so they are blown away by everything the system has to offer, clear accurate dialog as well as awesome special effects.

If you like it that people are not impressed by the dialog and question you when you tell them how much you paid, I'd be happy to trade you for my CC-170. :D They will definitely say "this guy paid what for this system" :eek: when they hear the horribly muddy dialog coming from that sucker.

[Nick250]

OK, that makes more sense. How about Eagles: Hell Freezes Over DTS? Lots of center channel activity blended with the mains. Maybe something that splits the difference like Pulp Fiction - fairly dialogue intensive, but will still fill the need for a little adrenaline :D Crash.

Excellent suggestion. HFO is very good bench mark DVD. I use it all the time for when I get a new piece of equipment or have moved stuff around etc.

Nick

[Nick250]

What chapter on the movie is this?

I've been using the opening chapter from Toy Story II to demo my system, so if I can find something better, or a little different I'd love to give it a try.

U-571, opening scene is my show off DVD.

Nick

[billnchristy]

House of Flying daggers.

If you cant hear the nature, subtile noises and breaths then take it back and get a better one.

The bean scene as well.

[ParadigmDawg]

I think you missed the point.

I think it would be more impressive if the dialog is where it should be as well as everything else so they are blown away by everything the system has to offer, clear accurate dialog as well as awesome special effects.

If you like it that people are not impressed by the dialog and question you when you tell them how much you paid, I'd be happy to trade you for my CC-170. :D They will definitely say "this guy paid what for this system" :eek: when they hear the horribly muddy dialog coming from that sucker.

[ParadigmDawg]

The Incredibles" Typical Pixar Studios animation perfection. Adults, kids, anyone can watch this DVD and have a great time. Some well done, heart-stopping bass. Recording levels uneven during previews and movie intro. Sound is right on feature however.

"Building comes down", Scene 6 (0:22:59)*
"Syndrome", Scene 13 (0:52:01)*
"Ouch", Scene 15 (0:58:15)*
"Sticky balled", Scene 16 (01:02:30)*

What chapter on the movie is this?

I've been using the opening chapter from Toy Story II to demo my system, so if I can find something better, or a little different I'd love to give it a try.

[j_garcia]

House of Flying daggers.

The bean scene as well.

The scene is Echo Game. This is an excellent disc to use overall for sound, but make sure you watch it in Chinese on the SD DVD, because the English dub is poorly done, the sound seems quite muffled compared to the Chinese track. I picked this up on BluRay last week and it looks spectacular. Unfortunately, I don't have an HDMI receiver yet so I can't listen to the lossless audio track....