I went to the movies and it had REAR speakers!

[John Holmes]

I finally got around to taking my four year old to see, "Monster's Inc.". It was decent as far as movies go. Not as good (imo) as the Toy Story series but, enjoyable for sure.

Now on to what really impressed me. The sound was fantastic! As with the Toy Story films, they did an awesome job with it.

This location presented it in DTS and had speakers on the "rear" walls. Now I'm not sure if it was discrete or matrixed but, it was glorious! The sound seemed discrete to me.

This was good and bad. The good for me was, a theater that stepped up to the plate for a wonderful presentation. My first listen of 6.1 was very convincing.

The bad is, now I want that sound at my own HT and will have to wait until next year to make it happen.

Anyway, the bottom line is, some theaters are really getting it together and, I will be at the theater more this year, not by much but more! :B




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[P-Dub]

John, I'm a bit confused as the the speakers on the "rear" walls. All the theaters that I've been in for the past decade or two have had speakers on the "rear" walls. Are you talking about the rear center with discete sound? If that's the case, I only know of one theater locally that even supports a DD EX or DTS ES type setup. Could it be that you were actually in a theater that had pays attention to proper speaker calibaration? That is quite rare.

Speaking of which, a local second run theater has actually advertised that they've spent some money on upgrading the sound in the theater. I've avoided going there for a while, but now I may just drop in and see if I can hear the improvement.




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[John Holmes]

Paul,

Maybe where I've been was all stone age cinemas. I'm not sure. This was the first that I have been to, that actually had the rear speakers on the back wall as well as the sides.

The rear center sound seemed to work for me though! If it was discrete, I like it! :B

"A decade or two" eh??? Geessshhhh, I feel really behind/stupid. I've been to several theaters over the last few years and have never seen them. Maybe I need glasses too!!!




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[George Bellefontaine]

John, you really owe it to yourself to get 6.1 connected. Even when I'm not playing EX or DTS ES Discrete,with just the regular DD 5.1/DTS 5.1 the extra two speakers on my backwall really fill in that gap between the two sidewall surrounds.Sometimees it's downright scary when you hear things directly behind you-- especially during a scary film.




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