Subwoofer workout - DVDs with Seismic Bass

[HMenke]

With all the new subs being completed in the last few weeks, I thought it might be fun to find out what DVDs people have found to shatter the plaster. When I built my sonotube, I never intended to induce seismic tremors - but have since found out DIY earthquakes are fun!

My favorites so far:

• Finding Nemo (Darla tapping on fish tank)
• Titan A.E. (most of it, but especially the ice field and the planetary synthesis)
• War of the Worlds (machine emergence and death rays)
• Master and Commander (under attack)

What is amazing to me is the added experience having deep, impactful bass can bring to these films. I was completely missing all this before!

As a side note, my wife now calls my old Paradigm PS-1000 box subwoofer "the little one". :B

[Nathan P]

I'll add the opening scene of SW EII, that thing kills my little 10 inch, of course, that is good because now my dad wants a new one

[HMenke]

Cool, I'll have to try that one out. One of my previous favorites had been the asteroid field in SW EII, but it doesn't have as much deep bass as you'd think.

[Joe L.]

Try "Flight of the Pheonix," or "Batman Begins," or the DTS version of "The Haunting" or any of the "Lord of the Rings" DVDs.

They will all give your sub a workout. It does not need to crack the plaster to add to the movie experience.

I'm constantly amaized at the low frequency content on a lot of movies out there put to set the mood. Subtle tremors, heartbeats, vibrations are equally important as the major seismic events in my opinion.

[kgveteran]

We've been watching "Zethura".Towards the middle where the Astronaut enters the plot.It's a cool movie also.

[HMenke]

Joe, I'll definitely check those out. Just finished "King Kong" and it had tons of sub action, including subtle mood setting as you talked about.

kg, "Zathura" is one of our favorites - haven't tried it with the new sub but now it's also on the list!

[howburger]

My vote is definitely for WOTW for non-subtlety and Batman Begins for subtlety. There is a thread over at AVS with some more.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=656467

Harold

[khellandros66]

Jurrasic Park DTS
Saving Private Ryan DTS
Band of Brothers
Phantom of The Opera (scene where the phantom says "DID I NOT INSTRUCT THAT BOX FIVE WAS TO E KEPT EMPTY!!!")

Music Wise
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
The General's Daughter
anyhting AK1200

~Bob

[Habs4life]

U571, the depth charges are nasty.

[Chris D]

Perhaps we could move this thread over to the Home Theater section so everybody can participate?

Some good stuff here.