cineworld first time been to one and it was , atrocious
actually its the original CIC/UCI tower park 10 plex opened 1989 where got first projectionist job there when it was all fresh and brand new , its been under few operators that took it over , empire cinemas early 2000s and spent i think £7m refurbishment , adding more auditoriums onto the roof and gutting the originals downstairs
challengers 2024 , screen 5 , utter rubbish , beyond appalling , it was , the same as 2012 last other time there in screen 5 , no changes much to the main lager screens 5 and 6 , same noise sound booming bass bleed through
after 6mins of the rubbish movie hollywood dolby labs 7.1 sound mix , i got up and walked out and started to head home
new camera phone stereo mics picked up the sound okay , that i can hear in my JBL/THX cinema the dreadful 1.2s what ever that honky reverb noise on typical dialog is distracting its not on the soundtrack and i put up with it for decades and now finally fed up with hearing that poor sound dubbing stage to cinema rubbish quality , for crying out loud absorb the whole auditorium
the QSC stage channels had issues , right bass cab seemed broken , it wasn't outputting equal bass as noticed on stage left bass cab , HF horns appeared okay LCR ,
sub bass/LFE boomy and noticed short few second before it decayed , would be annoying in the other adjacent screens 4 and 6 as muffed low frequency
surround channel speakers was utterly rubbish not very sound involving at all , no , at all
i doubt they do proper sound checks each day to make , what's the point anyway
also screen had crease were the strings that tighten the screen down came lose and must have been that way for well over a year or more , also i noticed bass/screen wobble due to the screen not been tightened down and was visually distracting when screen bass or sub bass was used , the screen is super micro perforated may explain as the perf holes are smaller and maybe more acoustical energy reflecting and cursing screen to flex/distort
never again going back to this cinema site
notching the speaker types
live ranting review of cineworld and into my JBL/THX home cinema that sounds far better than commercial cinemas , no annoying echoes or short reverb annoying echoes
