Sounderista
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I don't go to movie theaters almost ever for several reasons, one of them that the sound quality is just mediocre. Which to me is bad. I have a threshold below which poor sound quality is too distracting for me to appreciate the movie. Last one I went to was "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the theater that was then called "Raleigh Grande", a very comfortable theater but the sound quality was abysmal.
From this you might think that I'm a rich audiophile with a $100,000 home theater, with walls, floor and ceiling treated by audio engineers. All the contrary, I'm just a simpleton with a Pioneer VSX-935, 6 JBL Stage A130 and an A125C center, plus a BIC America 12" subwoofer. And the ceiling in the room it's at is one of those called "vaulted". Well, this cheap combination, obviously EQed to my taste, gives me a sound quality several times better to any movie theater in my area, at least up to the time that movie came out. If they improved in the years since, I don't know.
But Hans Zimmer has a new movie coming out for just two days (not one he scored, but one about him, with interviews and concert footage) and this is the movie that will get me off my comfortable butt and make me drive to a theater. But there's no point in doing that if the experience is going to be mediocre. I'd rather wait for the 4K Blu-ray release.
So I'm just trying to find opinions from other audiophiles that may live in this area, if you know of any theater that doesn't suck when it comes to sound quality. Unfortunately this movie is not shown on most theaters, just a handful. Of that list, I scratched four off right away:
From this you might think that I'm a rich audiophile with a $100,000 home theater, with walls, floor and ceiling treated by audio engineers. All the contrary, I'm just a simpleton with a Pioneer VSX-935, 6 JBL Stage A130 and an A125C center, plus a BIC America 12" subwoofer. And the ceiling in the room it's at is one of those called "vaulted". Well, this cheap combination, obviously EQed to my taste, gives me a sound quality several times better to any movie theater in my area, at least up to the time that movie came out. If they improved in the years since, I don't know.
But Hans Zimmer has a new movie coming out for just two days (not one he scored, but one about him, with interviews and concert footage) and this is the movie that will get me off my comfortable butt and make me drive to a theater. But there's no point in doing that if the experience is going to be mediocre. I'd rather wait for the 4K Blu-ray release.
So I'm just trying to find opinions from other audiophiles that may live in this area, if you know of any theater that doesn't suck when it comes to sound quality. Unfortunately this movie is not shown on most theaters, just a handful. Of that list, I scratched four off right away:
- Regal Crossroads & IMAX - Cary
- Alamo Drafthouse
- Regal North Hills
- Cinemark Bistro Raleigh (what used to be the Raleigh Grande and probably still has the same equipment it had in 2018)
- AMC Southpoint 17 in Durham
- Silverspot Cinema Chapel Hill 13
- Regal Greensboro Grande
