I went to a play yesterday in a relatively new purpose built theater in SLC. I
have been there about 3 times now. Each time the sound was horrible for me.
It is too loud and I get some kind of odd non linear distortion that makes it
hard to understand the dialog. The rest of my family did not have a problem.
I have had my hearing tested and it comes out as perfect.
I will just have to remember to take earplugs if I go to that place again.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 10:07 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Movie review
Yes, we went to a theater. It had been a number of years since we actually went
to a commercial theater (since well before tha pandemic, but I'm guessing maybe
10 years). I was not prepared for the experience. Very large recliners with
electric footrest/recline action. Not too many seats in the entire theater; I'm
guessing 50-ish?
But the sound was pretty disappointing to me. I think they substituted loud for
fidelity. The sound I have set up in our home theater is far superior; maybe
especially because we have dialog enhancement.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 1/27/2025 5:43 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>My only complaint was that much of the audio was much too loud and drowned
out a lot of the dialogue; especially when Dylan was doing his trademark
mumbling.
Maybe that was the point?
Did you watch it in theaters? I've read that theater sound makes these audio
situations significantly better and that home audio, obviously not as good
quality, has difficulty getting dialogue out.
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
We went to see A Complete Unknown; a biography of Bob Dylan. It did not
attempt to do a very large portion of his life; just the years roughly
1961-1965. In the beginning he was very much in his folk-music formative years,
and as his popularity grew the film depicts his frustration with the fame that
he was not prepared for. It culminates at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where
he broke out with band and an electric guitar. Really struck a chord (no pun
intended) with me as I was a teenager in 1965 and I distinctly recall the major
controversy when he "went electric".
The actors all did their own singing and instrument playing. Kudos for not
trying to emulate Dylan too closely, but instead doing a resonable facsimile.
I give it 4 stars. My only complaint was that much of the audio was much
too loud and drowned out a lot of the dialogue; especially when Dylan was doing
his trademark mumbling.
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