Re-listening to region 2 special edition Saving Private Ryan (chapter 2, time 6m:06s where the boats near the beach on the surrounds (I’m monitoring only the surrounds) the whistle blowing left surround is some 4dbA to 5dbA less on dts with the SPL meter over Dolby digital.
DOLBY wins!
Also the framing on the bluray is cock-eyed out of place over the DVD edition sigh, why pay for less image on format that I thought was going to make a difference.
The more things change. The more they stay the same.
I’ve switched back to Dolby digital now. I heard this in DOLBY SR-D when it came out and the impact of LCR stage channels was might high in level but still lacked what you’d get in top dog THX cinema!
My x6 surrounds have lot of reverberation on the beach front assault I’m only listening to the surrounds at the moment. Some parts there is might pause in the sound while Cpt. Miller has lapse or goes blank faced with the onslaught of madness surrounding him.
Then all goes active again when snapping out of it “What do we do” as young solder yells out! Bullets wiz though the air and ricocheting off metal crosses stuck in the sand. Machinegun fire moves around left to right, shells hit the sand sending showers of sand all around my ears.
I’m surrounded with x6 surrounds on the sidewalls with x4 on the back wall and x2 placed overhead. I’m only running the normal surround layout at the moment and its immersive without the use of dipolar surrounds. The surrounds are spaced apart along the walls to create a naturally defused surround field just like the cinema, only in Length 15 by Width 10 by Height 8 foot room.
The surrounds can reach a comfortable 85dbc level as they are so near around the seating location at just under 7 feet and aimed downwards each have there on EQ all surrounds are wired in parallel.
Listen out for the sound effect in “Forest Gump” (1994) as Gump run out the hot zone for cover, one of the mortars impacting into the rice field is the same effect when Luke cuts a hole in the At-At walker to toss a bomb inside!