War of the Worlds (2005) DD mix is off?

[nova]

Are you guys serious??? My 3805 had no problems with WOTW, not impressed with the soundtrack. Watched Polar Express and WOTW back to back, seems to me PE was more dynamic and had a lot more LFE than WOTW.

 

[Rik]

Set all speakers to small and made it though the problem scenes with no difficulty. I guess I have a good excuse to get a sub now.

 

[MACCA350]

Thought I'd chime in. I watched WOTW last weekend. Is sounded pretty good, had some great LFE usage going below 20Hz as the trucks drive past in the opening sequence where you first see Tom Cruise. As tripods first emerge from underground had great subsonics, and some of the distant gunfire later in the movie sounded cool.

I normally have my 3805 set at -7 for all movies
Speaker are LCR 8ohm Surrounds 6ohm, efficiency is 90db all round, levels are:
C 0.0
L -1.0
R -0.5
Sub 0.0,
Surrounds hover around -2.5

This setup gives, at the listening position, around 115db peaks. On the weekends I bump the sub up a couple of notches which gives me 120db-122db peaks(which was measured with the sub at 20% volume) I haven't measured with the volumes higher than that, but I watched Jurassic Park superbit version with the sub at 30% volume and the servo turned down to give it more leash and it must have been pushing over 125db at my seat That was loud, it had the whole house and a few of the neighbors houses shaking

I found the mastering of WOTW about right, now 'Underworld' was a hot mastered track, you turn the compression up on that one and even the dialog gets lowered.

cheers

 

[xboxweasel]

I too listened to the DTS soundtrack. I was bloody awsome. I have not enjoyed a movie soundtrack this much in a while. I always wondered about comparing DTS to DD. I know a lot of people prefer DTS. Me too. It has to be better since only a select few movies are released with that format. DTS also have a much higher, hence it takes up almost twice as much room on a DVD than DD.

I will have to test those scene that BJP was mentioning.

Eh brian32672, what are you using to come up with your dB readings? Are you using dedicated amplifiers at all? Can you tell me what it means when an amplifier has a "x"dB voltage gain? There are actually a lot more specs that I don't know the meaning off.

Aren't theaters set to around -85dB?

 

[jmgillespie]

I didn't care much for the sound I thought the bass didn't quite sound right but that was movie problem not a dvd.

 

[Methost]

I saw it and LOVED it. I had to listen on my crappy HTIB DD system, and it kicked my subs *** ... but I LOVED it! I can't wait to get my new system set up and watch this again. The fog-horn sounding tri-pods were just freaking me out. If my wife doesnt get this for me for christmas (dont know how she could have missed the hints) then Ill be buying it myself on the 26th.

 

[mfabien]

I didn't care much for the sound I thought the bass didn't quite sound right but that was movie problem not a dvd.

Not knowing the different component of your sound system, it is difficult to assess your opinion as expressed.

Member Rik, who had a problem with this movie, eventually told us that his front speakers were set to LARGE and, as a result, the power of the movie's LFE simply overwhelmed the speakers. He also said he didn't have a subwoofer. Is your case could be similar?