steve
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Post by steve on Oct 20, 2005 19:35:24 GMT -7
I just had a chance to watch Batman Begins in the home theater. Wow. That movie is *by far* the most bass-intensive film I've ever auditioned. It blows away any of my other "favorites" - Spiderman 2, BHD, SPR, Master & Commander, I Robot, etc.
If you want to give your IB a real workout, try this movie. It's unreal. - my hair was vibrating some 15' from my 4x18 Avalanche IB line array throughout almost the entire movie.
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Post by jman on Oct 20, 2005 20:10:46 GMT -7
Odd, I didn't hear anything under ~40hz when I saw it in IMAX.
I'll see about doing some spectrographs of it. Were there any particular scenes that stand out?
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steve
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Post by steve on Oct 20, 2005 20:46:58 GMT -7
Pretty much the entire film...
According to the directors commentary, they remixed the audio for home theater - I guess the director, Nolan, is a HT buff. I heard elsewhere that in one scene, there's a 2Hz signal -- something about "scarecrow." But that phrase is used a lot in the film, so I can't pinpoint it any better.
This was the first time I saw it -- going to have some people over this weekend to watch it again, and I'll try to note any spectacular scenes.
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Post by titch on Oct 20, 2005 21:58:01 GMT -7
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ken
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Post by ken on Sept 14, 2006 15:38:55 GMT -7
hey steve........how much power are you feeding your ava's mate? also how are they wired load wise...l'm currently running stereo 8 ohm giving my 4x ava18's 225w each max......still got to eq etc when l get time....just tossing up whether to go bridged 4ohm or not.....cheers ken  |
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Post by PeterW on Sept 14, 2006 21:46:45 GMT -7
i watched that movie with one of my homemade horn subs, and it blew me away in the way that the bass was "arranged" if you will. I remember hearing that they spent extra time souping up the LFE channel for the DVD version of batman begins.
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Post by chrisbee on Sept 15, 2006 2:03:53 GMT -7
hey steve........how much power are you feeding your ava's mate? also how are they wired load wise...l'm currently running stereo 8 ohm giving my 4x ava18's 225w each max......still got to eq etc when l get time....just tossing up whether to go bridged 4ohm or not.....cheers ken Putting a housecurve on your IB will certainly help the LF pressurisation effects. Which really add to the drama of film watching. If you have peaks in your response you tend to set the sub at the level of the loudest peaks and miss everything else that is happening in the bass. Get cracking with REW and BFD. My IB runs 2 pairs of AE IB15s for 8 Ohm per channel using the EP2500. I'm now too afraid to have the IB play any louder even without LFE! Watching films like LOTR is simply exhausting.  I ought to buy Batman Begins. I hired the film before I finally sorted out my EP2500's input signal level. Now I even get 3 bars lighting up on my BFD! (Very occasionally) ;D |
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Post by ken on Sept 15, 2006 15:09:47 GMT -7
yeah gotta get time to set up the fbd and play with it  will do most of the finishing touchs today on the array install and hopefully get some pics up on here in the next couple of weeks  ib's are starting to get more heard of now in audio communities here ( aussie's) and hopefully more people will get into it btw my waf actually approves of the array as it only protudes into the room 250mm and is the same width as our 100" screen , so its nice and symetrical to her  cheers ken |
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Post by chrisbee on Sept 16, 2006 0:09:34 GMT -7
Great stuff, ken. We want to see pictures! Cult motto: No pictures? It didn't happen. |
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Post by poormanq45 on Sept 16, 2006 15:42:05 GMT -7
btw my waf actually approves of the array as it only protudes into the room 250mm and is the same width as our 100" screen , so its nice and symetrical to her cheers ken I think this is a big selling point that can be used. "But honey, you said you didn't want a big box in the room, right"  |
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