JJkizak Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 People get confused with this stuff on a "system" basis, the movie theater system being very expensive, large, thorough, and set up by experts and the home theater system being small, relatively inexpensive, and set up by psuedo experts. So it's kind of a no-brainer when you try to compare a theater with 30 speakers and a home theater with 8 speakers, THX or not, movie speakers and music speakers being the same. Perhaps there should be a warning label on a music speakers stating "do not atempt to use these speakers for movies as they will self destruct in 5 minutes". Marketing hype wins another one. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Try Santa Claus versus the Martians for another beautiful example My oh my... I saw part of this for the first time (that I can recall) this season! They had already kidnapped Santa so I presume it was maybe 50% through? I was transfixed on how cheesy it was lol. I was finally unable to watch it to the end... I just had to turn the channel. Later on (next day or so) they showed it again and I stumbled upon it near the beginning and I was going to watch it however the wife wanted to watch a parade or something and gave me "the look" to change it. I got a kick how Santa and the kids escaped the air lock by evidently going through the air duct (woudn't that let all the air out of a normal space ship??) [Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest srobak Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Did you see The Kentucky Kid on MTV last week? It was the story of Nicky Hayden, the 2006 MotoGP champion, concentrating on his 2005 season. It was a pretty good documentary. Another good one is Adrenaline Rush, about Miguel Duhamel, the US multi-time racing champion. It's been shown on Speed Channel a few times. No - I missed Kentucky Kid - didn't even know it was on. I will have to look for it and DVR. I hope it is on again soon. I have seen the one about Miggs, and met him and Scott Russell once when I worked for Kawi back in the early 90s... Ah those were the days. Appears these are too wide to be displayed in the Klipsch forum properly - when will that ever get fixed? Click on them instead. http://home.comcast.net/~scrobak/images/bikes/russell1.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~scrobak/images/bikes/russel2.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~scrobak/images/bikes/russel3.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Did you see The Kentucky Kid on MTV last week? It was the story of Nicky Hayden, the 2006 MotoGP champion, concentrating on his 2005 season. It was a pretty good documentary. Another good one is Adrenaline Rush, about Miguel Duhamel, the US multi-time racing champion. It's been shown on Speed Channel a few times. No - I missed Kentucky Kid - didn't even know it was on. I will have to look for it and DVR. I hope it is on again soon. I have seen the one about Miggs, and met him and Scott Russell once when I worked for Kawi back in the early 90s... Ah those were the days. Appears these are too wide to be displayed in the Klipsch forum properly - when will that ever get fixed? Click on them instead. http://home.comcast.net/~scrobak/images/bikes/russell1.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~scrobak/images/bikes/russel2.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~scrobak/images/bikes/russel3.jpg . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Back when dinosaurs and optical soundtracks ruled the earth, theater speakers - the ones actually in movie theaters - had a very uneven response - big peak around 5 khz, and another around 100 hz or so with very fast rolloffs above and below those points. They were designed that way to counteract deficiencies in optical sound, the amplification of the time, and the fact that the speakers were behind the movie screen, effectively firing through a perforated blanket at the audience. When everything was working, the result could be very impressive, and since the speaker was not especially wide range, you couldn't tell that everything above about 8 k was distortion and below about 80 hz hum and noise. The descendant of this kind of speaker equalization was the "West Coast Screech-Boom" of the sixties and seventies, speakers by JBL and Altec which came on a direct line out of the theaters. Nowadays, (boy, I'm sounding like an old-timer!) most of the problems have been addressed - except for the screen, of course - and the difference is not so great. So in answer to your question, I'd say a good audio speaker should work well for a home theater set up. I've been less enamored of "home theater" speakers" I've heard, as they still seem to have that vestigal "screech-boom" going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I buy KLIPSCH speakers because they handle both MUSIC and MOVIES quite well ......... Home Theatre is like 2 Channel, you can take it extremes if your wallet allows, it's like anything else, ...... "How good do you want it to sound? ............ "How much you got to spend?" ...... EH !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsear Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 The key difference is in the system as opposed to just the speaker. As video reproductions are usually 5/1, 6/1 or 7/1 you will need all the speaker components that best utilize that format to get the best reproduction of movie sound. They should ideally all be as capable as each other or balanced in their individual and overall specifications. That is why Klipsch and other manufacturers offer entire systems comprised of front, side, rear and sub woofer speakers. I use a complete RF 7 set up with an RFW 15 sub woofer. Knocks your socks off and plays music rather well too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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