Ok, now are you speaking of the music while watching the movie or separate from it?

The movie is not that scarrrrryyyy. I never turned the TV off not even once

Lasher

I envy you buck.
Most HT owners I know do not have equipments that can be considered audiophile grade. Some have decent components but the speaker placement and room treatments are not done properly if at all.

So, I’m going to take a wild guess and say most people would answer the way curegerog did to my question on theater versus home theater sound. It could be geographical. It may just be that theaters in and around Chicago have decent set up.

Lasher, I’m just wondering why you wanted to start a new thread instead of adding to the existing one http://ubb.outlawaudio.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000131.html . Just nitpicking…

i still like going to the movies... yeah its a ripoff, but so what. the theaters around where i live are good for the most part. all of them except 1 or 2 are very new and have good sound. i watch a bunch of movies at home, more than the theater, but the good ones i try to see at the theater first. some movies i like more at home (audio included), while others i enjoy at the movies. i thought lotr3 was better at the movies. i thought the last lotr was also better at the theater than in my ht, maybe just a bad transfer to dvd or something. the audio was still good, just not great. you guys could always rent the movie, and buy it later...

Spiker: I forgot that thread was even there............ooops. Well I only make 1 mistake about every 10 years so at least it's out of the way

Lasher

No doubt. It's good for us to get up and out once in awhile.

a rare agreement with me is always fun, too!

I wouldn’t say I have an ‘audiophile grade’ (I’m not sure how to define what that means) HT. It’s just that I have not been greatly impressed by the audio I hear in theatres and find my home audio gear to provide better overall definition and lower bass extension.

And my comment about a theatre being a business and not an audiophile’s dream is not said as an angry stab, but I hope rather even-handed. Theatres are there to make money, not impress those of us who are audio-finicky. If they didn’t make money, they wouldn’t be there, feature films wouldn’t be made and I’d have no DVD’s to wait for!

there are a few distinct advantages to dvd: you can watch from a couch in your underwear drinking a beer, and pause it when you have to take a leak from drinking too much. no noisy people, no sticky floors, no slow exit, less money for 2 people to see. there are some good sounding theaters and some bad sounding theaters, some are even thx certified. hopefully they will understand (continue or begin to in your case buck) that audio is a key element to a good film.

Theaters also have to deal with multiple surround speakers often being in front of the listener... it's really difficult to create a "sweet spot" over the entire floor of the theater...

You've got far more control over that in a personal HT environment... on my couch, the ideal spot is only about 2 people wide...