Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: My new stereo system is now probably better than Joe's !!!!

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Posted by Don E. Nelson (Member # 1049) on 11-22-2005, 05:18 PM:

I finally finished the installation of my home movie theatre with the certified THX sensaround sound system.I equalized it using a 1/3 octive RTA and a really flat mic. and It really rocks, ...eat your heart out Joe. Next year I plan on making the next big jump and upgrade to a 13" color TV set.

Joe, did I say this probably blows the doors off your oh so average system. Here at the drive in, the booth monkeys refer to your system as the: Average Joe's System.
When I turn this baby up to 11, they can hear it all the way in Modesto.

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 11-22-2005, 07:21 PM:

Do the amplifiers feature genuine Thermionic Transfer Technology? [Cool]

(...that is, vacuum tubes?)

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-22-2005, 10:33 PM:

I don't see any Thermionic stuff in there... The CRT in the 3 incher just doesn't qualify him.... this guy's no audiofile..... I'll stick with either Joe's or Andy's system any day [thumbsup]

. They are both the audiofile guru's for sure.... they know what it is all about.

Mark

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-22-2005, 10:43 PM:

Yours may be THX, but my room is SPL THX WOW SRD DTS JBL!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 11-23-2005, 02:17 AM:

Sorry Joe, I still think Andy's is better than yours...

Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 11-23-2005, 09:35 AM:

Yes, but does Joe have the official plaque??

Yes I am proud of the fact that I wasted 20 minutes making that.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-23-2005, 11:00 AM:

Yes of course I have that plaque. Duh.

Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 11-23-2005, 01:12 PM:

I don't believe you.

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 11-23-2005, 02:31 PM:

Oh-oh....the war has begun!

Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 11-23-2005, 02:31 PM:

I need (at least) a picture of said plaque in action.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-23-2005, 03:54 PM:

Jesus H. Jones, must I prove EVERYTHING?

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 11-23-2005, 04:54 PM:

1hr 23min to photoshop the plaque?

You're slipping Joe [Wink]

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 11-23-2005, 05:18 PM:

Thank you guys....I needed that laugh! [Smile]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-23-2005, 06:32 PM:

quote: Dick Vaughan
1hr 23min to photoshop the plaque?

You assume I got started right away. The real time was closer to about 7 minutes.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-23-2005, 06:47 PM:

OK, class, let's discuss the graphic design angle of this a bit.

Official plaque? Bah! The Dolby Digital logo is all wrong! Looks like the lame Brands of the World website strikes again. The double D icon is just plain inaccurate. And whoever guessed on the fonts guessed way off the map. Arial Bold is not it. Shit, the would-be artist would have gotten more points from me if he used Comic Sans. At least I would have laughed more. Maybe the guy used Arial just to piss me off!
[evil]

Just to be an even bigger smart ass, here's a proper rendition of the Dolby Digital logo, one official version circa 1995, the other version circa 2004:

I commonly refer to stretched or squished type as examples of "font murder." The way the SRS logo is tortured is an example of logo murder.

The DTS, THX and JBL icons look pretty accurate. But overall, why in the hell is everything crammed together like that? Is it a political statement on the overcrowded slums of Hong Kong, Bangkok or Rio De Janeiro?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-23-2005, 07:17 PM:

Bangcock, I think.

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 11-23-2005, 07:54 PM:

Excellent...this just keeps getting better! [Big Grin]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-23-2005, 08:11 PM:

At least the SPL logo was a dead on perfect font match. [Razz]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 11-24-2005, 12:53 AM:

You need an animated logo trailer to play after the previews!

Click HERE!

QuickTime (Sorensen3) 368 KB.

[Big Grin]

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-24-2005, 01:01 AM:

Now that was pretty funny.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 11-24-2005, 01:58 AM:

Needs a Circle Surround <tm> logo.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-24-2005, 02:38 AM:

Awwww Randy, that's the short version of the logo. Don't you have the full version complete with the fart at the end?

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 11-24-2005, 08:37 AM:

Yeah, you rich guys with super fast, zillion gigahertz computers and big-as-the-sky broadband internet connections can have the long version trailer. Meanwhile, me and my 400 Mhz. dial-up are going to stick with the short version.

The original file size of this one was over 2 MB. It was 800 X 600 @ 15 fps. I cut it down to 400 X 300 and compressed the hell out of it with Sorensen3 to get it under 500 MB.

Even though the whole clip is only 160 frames long it took over an hour to render on my computer. (63 minutes, to be exact.)

Syncing up the sound is no picnic, either! (Editing the actual sound, itself, is usually no problem, however.)

So... Aside from the fart at the end, what should the "Long Version" Trailer be?

I can edit it here. If it takes too long for me to render I can e-mail the Blender file to somebody and they can render it and host the final product.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 11-24-2005, 02:53 PM:

quote: Randy Stankey
Meanwhile, me and my 400 Mhz. dial-up

Cool! 400 MHz dialup would allow for download speeds of over 7.1 gigabits per second! Sign me up.

Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 11-24-2005, 03:40 PM:

Ok, Joe. I'm satisfied.

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 11-24-2005, 05:48 PM:

Wouldn't it be great if you could really get results like that simply leaving out an ampersand!? [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-24-2005, 08:24 PM:

They funny thing is that all three of them have left out the most important sign of all!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-24-2005, 09:15 PM:

Too many words end with "EN". I especially like "Finger Poking", "Mitten Grabbing" and "Rubber Necking". No wonder they lost the war.