Which movie sections/parts do you reference for surround sound glory?

KASR

I was watching CARS from Pixar/Disney this past weekend and I continued to be amazed by the sound authoring/editing of Pixars stuff. It begged the question of the rest of our audiophiles and HT-enthusiasts:

When it comes to surround sound referencing/glory - what movie section do you refer to?

Here's an example breakdown from the top of my head:

Cars - The scene where Lightning McQueen revs his engine to scare the tractor/cows. Most of the racetrack scenes.

Master & Commander - opening battle scene, from the ambient ocean sounds/first canon shot to the fogbank escape - great stuff!

Band of Brothers - part two: Day of Days - Jumping into Normandy

So what's on your list?

vc69

The Jericho missile test at the beginning of "Iron Man" for TrueHD.

I have yet to own a good DTS-MA disc.

anton.chigurh

Band of Bros. ....the forest in Bastogne with the fox holes and exploding trees.

dorokusai

Debbie Does Dallas.

Knucklehead

dorokusai wrote: »

Debbie Does Dallas.

lmao

suprafantx

House of Flying Daggers (part 3 the echo game).

bobman1235

I reference all the ones in the 19 other threads on this topic.

AsSiMiLaTeD

^^ There's only 19 other threads?

KASR

bobman1235 wrote: »

I reference all the ones in the 19 other threads on this topic.

Crap - you're right....after using the search tool I found the two threads promptly: the latest being active from Feb. 8th 06 to Feb. 25th 06.
The second one is back in '04.

I'll get to cracking on that list, since God knows nothing reference worthy has been released since then!

Edit: AH ha! Correction! Three threads now, I'm a roll! This one is from 11-29-09...missed it by thaaaat much!

Edit: Holy cow...the search is on fire! 12-28-08! For a search engine, the polk forum actually handles boolean searches pretty good! So good on Polk Web for that

bobman1235

Or this one from a week and a half ago.

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91990

zombie boy 2000

Game. Set. Match.... Bobman.

KASR

bobman1235 wrote: »

Or this one from a week and a half ago.

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91990

I got that one...we're trying to hit 19 here.

steveinaz

What is this "surround sound" that you speak of?

Knucklehead

steveinaz wrote: »

What is this "surround sound" that you speak of?

you sparked my curiosity.....

From Wiki.....

History
The first documented use of surround sound was in 1940, for the Disney studio's animated film Fantasia. Its multichannel audio application was called 'Fantasound', comprising three audio channels and speakers. The sound was diffused throughout the cinema, initially by an engineer using some 54 loudspeakers. The surround sound was achieved using the sum and the difference of the phase of the sound. In the 1950s, the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen experimented with and produced ground-breaking electronic compositions such as Gesang der Jünglinge and Kontakte, the latter using fully discrete and rotating quadraphonic sounds generated with industrial electronic equipment in Herbert Eimert's studio at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). Edgar Varese's Poeme Electronique, created for the Iannis Xenakis designed Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, also utilised spatial audio with 425 loudspeakers used to move sound throughout the pavilion. There are also many other composers that created ground-breaking surround sound works in the same time period.

KASR

Knucklehead wrote: »

you sparked my curiosity.....

From Wiki.....

History
The first documented use of surround sound was in 1940, for the Disney studio's animated film Fantasia. Its multichannel audio application was called 'Fantasound', comprising three audio channels and speakers. The sound was diffused throughout the cinema, initially by an engineer using some 54 loudspeakers. The surround sound was achieved using the sum and the difference of the phase of the sound. In the 1950s, the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen experimented with and produced ground-breaking electronic compositions such as Gesang der Jünglinge and Kontakte, the latter using fully discrete and rotating quadraphonic sounds generated with industrial electronic equipment in Herbert Eimert's studio at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). Edgar Varese's Poeme Electronique, created for the Iannis Xenakis designed Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, also utilised spatial audio with 425 loudspeakers used to move sound throughout the pavilion. There are also many other composers that created ground-breaking surround sound works in the same time period.

Holy cow! You learn something new every day!

concealer404

Screw the new 22.2 format, these dudes got 425.0!!!

vc69

steveinaz wrote: »

What is this "surround sound" that you speak of?

Knucklehead wrote: »

you sparked my curiosity.....

From Wiki.....

History

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Edgar Varese's Poeme Electronique, created for the Iannis Xenakis designed Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, also utilised spatial audio with 425 loudspeakers used to move sound throughout the pavilion.

Damn Steve, that's a lot of ears.

MrGlobe

The new Indiana Jones, before the movie starts the THX intro is effing awesome. Its probably the longest THX intro I've seen as well.

Knucklehead

MrGlobe wrote: »

The new Indiana Jones, before the movie starts the THX intro is effing awesome. Its probably the longest THX intro I've seen as well.

I love that stuff!

Xharlix

Opening scene to "Star Trek" on Blu ray.

ryanjoachim

MrGlobe wrote: »

The new Indiana Jones, before the movie starts the THX intro is effing awesome. Its probably the longest THX intro I've seen as well.

Also, near the end where they just escaped from the temple and the water starts filling in the crater. Good stuff there.

NeilGabriel

KASR wrote: »

Holy cow! You learn something new every day!

for many, it is more often than that....

nguyendot

I like the Fifth Element.... especially the diva scene.

2nd on the Star Trek opening scene.

bigaudiofanatic

Star Wars pod racing scene
Star Trek opening scene