War of the Worlds DVD warning

Musophile
Musophile Posts: 89
edited April 2008 in Music & Movies
I could have sworn I saw a thread here but I didn't find one so I just wanted to pass a warning. The audio tracks is filled with low end bass. I was shaking my house with the dvd. Be careful not to blow out your speakers by listening too loud to this dvd. The movie is awful compared to the original, but my god I've never had such a crazy dvd audio track so I had to buy it. :D
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited May 2006
    Muso, do you run your HT without a seperate sub? I know your LSi 25's have built in powered subs.. does that work pretty good for ya? Just curious is all.
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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    Yeah, you have to be careful with the volume and crossover settings. If you have the volume set high, they will rumble the house, but they sound awful. They can still rumble well without being set super high. You just have to tweak them with your system so they are tight and punchy rather than loud and muddy. To put it in perspective, I was in another room about 20 feet away where I couldn't hear the movie, but suddenly I was feeling the movie. Lol!
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  • Polk65
    Polk65 Posts: 1,405
    edited May 2006
    This has a sick audio track. :D

    Is this the thread you were thinking of?
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34592
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited May 2006
    Which scene(s) in War of the Worlds ?
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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    Anywhere the aliens pop out of the ground or stomp around danger boy. It's crazy audio.
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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    Polk65 wrote:
    This has a sick audio track. :D

    Is this the thread you were thinking of?
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34592

    Lol! Yup that's the one. It's like one stinking huge lfe track. :D
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  • .Jon
    .Jon Posts: 98
    edited May 2006
    i know it has some killer bass but the foghorn noise coming from the tripods might have killed my cs1 lol
    vsnares
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited May 2006
    NOW YOU TELL ME!

    Actually I had my mains set to large by accident and watched this movie. It blew the kevlar off of my B&W. Had to go to the dealer to replace 2 drivers on one of the speakers. My Krell killed it. Good sound though :)
    Venom
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited May 2006
    venomclan wrote:
    NOW YOU TELL ME!

    It blew the kevlar off of my B&W.
    Wow - my speakers just use sound to recreate the movie - yours throws stuff at you? Now THAT is high end....

    Michael
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2006
    Yeah it's crazy. I know a few people that replaced their subs due to this soundtrack because their old ones could not deal.
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited May 2006
    McLoki wrote:
    Wow - my speakers just use sound to recreate the movie - yours throws stuff at you? Now THAT is high end....

    Michael

    Yeah, the true 3D experience. I thought we really were being invaded.
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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    venomclan wrote:
    NOW YOU TELL ME!

    Actually I had my mains set to large by accident and watched this movie. It blew the kevlar off of my B&W. Had to go to the dealer to replace 2 drivers on one of the speakers. My Krell killed it. Good sound though :)
    Venom

    Rofl! Get on it Polk! We want speakers that throw shrapnel at us too!
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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    What kind of subs were they buying Wingnut? That's the next purchase for me.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2006
    Svs!
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited May 2006
    sounds like someone took some extra liberties with the LFE track.
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  • MattN03
    MattN03 Posts: 558
    edited May 2006
    venomclan wrote:
    Yeah, the true 3D experience. I thought we really were being invaded.


    lol :eek: We saw it at the theater and wasn't impressed, but I may have to rent it so we can try out the new H/T system. Glad I bought a SVS!! :D
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited May 2006
    Matt Nitrate, its insane. You will enjoy it. You have been warned.
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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited May 2006
    McLoki wrote:
    Wow - my speakers just use sound to recreate the movie - yours throws stuff at you? Now THAT is high end....

    Michael


    WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    ROFLPMP:) :D:):D:):D
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited May 2006
    so it's not a dvd warning but more of a system warning. Careful how you mistreat your speakers while watching this movie.
    Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.

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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    Yeah it's a system warning. I'm enjoying playing it once in a while but it's kinda crazy and can be easily abused like you say.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited May 2006
    Ok, yeah that's some insane bass in a lot of the movie. wow.. it shook the room several times.
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  • Musophile
    Musophile Posts: 89
    edited May 2006
    Lol...glad you enjoyed it Danger boy.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited June 2006
    I finally brought out this movie (bought it a while ago), fired up the DTS track, and it absolutely rocked... outstanding SQ, but a goofy disjointed movie. I'll use it for a couple of demo tracks at best.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited June 2006
    I wanted to just slap that little whiny girl and her brother. They ruined the movie for me.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited June 2006
    Same here Noel! Regardless of the LFE track, I hated this movie because of those damn kids. I kept yelling at the TV to the aliens...TAKE THEM, TAKE THEM!
    ND13 wrote:
    I wanted to just slap that little whiny girl and her brother. They ruined the movie for me.
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  • goldear
    goldear Posts: 4
    edited June 2006
    This is ironic since it was this very movie that blew my subs, which led me to putting together a complete 7.1 LSi system...and joining this forum. While I always enjoyed my old and aging Citation 7000 speaker system for HT, it never quite made it as a music system. As a result, I often used a second room setup for music, rotating speakers in and out on a regular basis. As a long-time owner and fan of Paradigm's Reference line, I almost went back to them for my HT system; that was until I got a chance to listen to these at Sound Advice.

    And while I still enjoy my original Infinity Renaissance 90s for 2-channel, the quality of these Polks has me seriously considering consolidating my music/movie listening. Though the Ren-90s still sound great for 2-channel, the combination of the LSi15/LSiC/LSi9 and FX sound incredible with discrete multichannel material. In fact other than the lowest end, the 9s/15s have some of the same mid/upper-end attributes that I love about the Infinity; incredibly open, detailed and transparent...much larger than their size belies.

    I couldn't be happier...especially since I got all of these speakers for less than what the retail was on a pair of these Infinities new (circa early 90s). Thanks Speilberg.

    -Chris
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited June 2006
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this movie suck ****?
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • goldear
    goldear Posts: 4
    edited June 2006
    Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with the movie...but the sound was unreal. Sadly, I never saw the movie in the theaters so when I stepped away I wasn't expecting the horns to do the damage they did to my subs. When I came back, they were bottoming-out.
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  • garcianc2003
    garcianc2003 Posts: 20
    edited June 2006
    Speaking of movies that sucked **** and had great sound... try "Hussle and Flow". It is not over-the-top bass, but that deep "fat" bass common to rap music and some awesome percussions on the high end. Want to blow more speakers and subs? Try "Underworld".
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  • speakergeek
    speakergeek Posts: 555
    edited June 2006
    The DTS sound track is 8dB louder than the DD soundtrack, according to the dialogue normalization on my receiver (DD=-4, DTS+4 for an 8dB difference), so that is why people are blowing their speakers. The DTS version is probably clipping the heck out of the amp. The sound is killer though when the aliens are coming out of the ground, and start zorching everything, but the DTS version is MUCH louder than the DD version. But be careful when listening to the DTS version.
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