Terminator 2: Extreme Edition

I have had this disc for some time, and have noticed the following: late in the movie, when the T-1000 is chasing the police van, the helicopter travels under an overpass. This, of course, throws the surround into great effect, kicking the rear speakers in. When it does this, I get a crackling static in my rear channels. The volume certainly isn't too much to handle, and I have swapped out speakers to make sure it isn't just bad surrounds. I have other discs that have louder surround effects and bass that this doesn't occur on, just this one disc. Also, I have really only noticed this occurring since we moved into our new house about 7 months ago.

Any ideas?

Sean

The "crackling static" you notice is usually associated with an amplifier going into clipping because it hasn't enough power to supply to the speakrs or with speakers that cannot handle the dynamic range and impact of too much power. But you imply you never noticed the problem at your old house with the same setup? So I assume we can rule out the disc's being defective or scratched. Odd.

You've already swapped out the speakers. Have you tried the disc with another amp? Perhaps your new room is larger than your old one, and you're playing the audio at a higher output level, requiring more power (an increase of each 3 db of volume requires a doubling of amplifier power), throwing the amps into clipping and static. When the volume is down, do you still hear the static? There's also the possibility of interference somehow in your new place, with electrical wiring or with ground loops. Try changing the position of the rear speakers and the position of the wiring.

John

John,

Well, the room is bigger, but I upped my speakers as well. I have an 80-watt per channel amp, with 100-watt speakers all-round (save for my sub which is a 50-watt powered). I don't have another amp to hook up to, but when I moved, I adjusted my decibel controls on all of my speakers. I took them down to 0, but the static still came through when I raised the volume. When I took them up to about 5db, they still show the same static. I'm sure you're right in that the amp is having trouble powering the speakers. And to answer, no, I don't hear the static at lower volumes.

I just thought it was kind of weird that this would happen on only this one part on this one movie. Other aural frenzies like U-571 don't have any problems whatsoever.

Maybe I'll try moving the speaker wire in my attic to see if some of it might be interference from the structure or electric lines.

Weird!

Thanks for the help!
Sean

If other DVDs aren't giving you problems, then one can only assume that it has to do with the disc. Just pray that the issue goes away. :)

Sorry, Jimmy, must have missed the nonexistent Terminator 2: Extreme Edition DVD Defect thread. If you know where it is, please direct me to it. Perhaps its lost among the numerous HD-DVD threads you have started.

Sean

hey, jimmy, you want to be banned, too, don't you?

Can you people please look to see if someone else already started that thread before idiotically starting your own.

Jimmy, you have got to be kidding. Who talks like that? High school kids?

Ya Jimmy, at least do it gently.
Man, I would love to have one of you (John or Spence) come to my house and help me with my speakers. See I'm deaf in one ear, so it's very hard to detect where exactly clipping noise is originating (I had the same clipping effect while watching Predator in DTS) then it's even harder to navigate through the wires and pull or swap out the correct cable. Plus no one else in my family actually cares that much about audio, so I'm kinda stuck with imperfect audio. Also, if you had any sound calibration recommendations I have a Pioneer 5 disk changer, 5.1 surround. It has all these different types of surround and DPS modes: action, theatre, hall, virtual surround 1, 2, etc. Then it has like "D.R.C." that asks what speaker and then ask me to put in a distance in meters? I dont understand it at all, maybe one of you do, any help would be appreciated.

Try this article for help on Audio and Video setup :)

Article

thanks that was help ful, a little simple, but I'ld like to know more about that decible meter... what are they for? Could I just go to radioshack and ask them about it? As well, on a thx audio test: what should it sound like if your speakers are out of phase? Thanks again.