Need recomendation for DVD with long sustained subwoofer

[avnair]

Hey all,

Here's the situation: I have a Pioneer SE-DIR800C Wireless Dolby Headphone set... I've had a recurring problem when there is a subwoofer track in a movie, there will be a distinct rattling in the rear headphone. They'll fix it, then it'll come back after a while. So this time Pioneer has the unit shipped off to a different service company, and they send it back, having done nothing at all. So I gotta send it back again, but this time I need to give them examples from movies to test so they'll finally fix the damn thing once and for all.

The main movie I've been using to test is Close Encounters of the Third Kind, during the scene where the kid is getting abducted, on the DTS audio especially, the subwoofer is sustained for about a minute and a half. I'd like a couple more examples so they don't claim the rattling is part of the actual sound on the DVD. I don't have a whole lot of action movies in my personal library so any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[avaserfi]

My suggestion to you would be look into a calibration test disc such as Avia or the Rives audio CD. Since they actually have test tones on them you can have the sub run at a specific frequency for as long as you want by setting your player to repeat. This is easliy reproducable and an easy fix.

 

[avnair]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that.

 

[j_garcia]

The SVS site has a good list of things for testing subs, a number of which might be appropriate too, but test tones are likely to give you what you are after. At this point I would have just told them to keep the darn things and refund my money.

 

[jvm051]

War of the Worlds always comes up as a reference for subs.

 

[j_garcia]

WotW has a few intense scenes, but it is a bit hot too.

 

[Leprkon]

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