Filmmaker

I have a new set of 5.1 home theater speakers being shipped to me from Crutchfield, including my first powered subwoofer (I've been suffering with a passive one up until now) so would anyone be willing to browse my DVD collection (linked below) and advise the best titles and scenes for giving my new sub a workout? I'm most interested in scenes with rich low end, but without being coupled with a lot of high end, too--in other words, an explosion may have great bass, but it also has the high end "crack" of the blast, as well as the debris; which discs have scenes with just cool, clean low end playing (maybe the Nostromo flyover at the beginning of ALIEN?)? Thanks in advance, and sorry if this has been asked 1,000 times (search yielded nothing) and sorry if this is the wrong forum (it's certainly open to interpretation).

Simpson Purist

War of the Worlds has some pretty nice low-end particularly when the tripod starts to rise up, there's this moment where the the ground begins to rumble a bit and the people think at first that's it's a subway.

Speaking of Spielberg, there's also that famous moment in Jurassic Park with the T-Rex and the cup of water. Another one is in Saving Private Ryan when the German Tanks are approaching, there's a nice eerie rumble to it that gets a little more intense as the tanks close in.

Mr. Cinema

Master and Commander
War of the Worlds
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic Park
Cast Away (plane crash)

Maxflier

Every time i have ever changed speakers, the first thing i do is pop in Jurassic Park and skip straight the the T-Rex scene.

gryffinmaster

War of the Worlds for a full movie testing. If you are wanting a quick, powerful testing, skip to the plane crash on Cast Away. That one really surprised me.

chanster

Attack of the Clones has some good subwoofer moments. The final battle really takes advantage of them.

ShagMan

Lord of the Rings has the SPECTACULAR low-range test when Sauron's "death shockwave" passes through/over the human/elf army.. I always loved that part.

k_lodge

U-571--especially when the depth charges are going off

canaryfarmer

ShagMan, me too. I always get a "Turn that down NOW" look from my SO because I have the audio turned up to 11 just for that moment.

Harold Wazzu

Flight of the Phoenix - opening song and crash are great...

Randy Miller III

The new DVD of Event Horizon has some pretty strong LFE. In a supreme moment of non-manliness, I actually had to turn the subwoofer down a few times---it was almost overpowering the dialogue.

jaycrow

i gotta go with saving private ryan

emhello

Ditto.

CKMorpheus

If that Dante's Peak is DTS, pop that in!

Mr. Cinema

I would use Peter Jackon's Kong as well.

ReggieM

I'll put in a suggestion for X-Men: the scene where Magneto captures Wolverine and Rogue in the train. When he uses his magnetism there's an incredible bass sound in the background.

pinata242

The asteroid chase with the seismic charges is quite nice.

Filmmaker

Don't own it.

Don't own it, Part II.

It isn't but, even if it was, it wouldn't matter--though my Kenwood receiver is DTS-capable, my Sony DVP-S7000 DVD player doesn't feature DTS playback.

That seems an obvious choice--I can't believe I hadn't thought of it yet!

Great suggestions so far, everyone; keep 'em coming!

Simpson Purist

Minority Report - car factory sequence
Toy Story 2 - opening sequence
Titanic - pretty much the 2nd half of the movie
Munich - I know this may sound like odd choice, but the phone bomb sequence has some jarringly intense LFE
Spider-Man 2 - the scene where Doc Ock introduces his energy machine
Batman Begins - Lots of good LFE, but one scene that comes to mind is when Bruce Wayne test drives "The Tumbler"

Mr. Cinema

Yes, Munich is a great choice. The bass sounds just come out of nowhere, when you're not expecting it. It sounded superb in the theater too.

BuckNaked2k

In my opinion, the best DTS soundtrack I have ever heard is War of the Worlds SE.

mbs

Agreed, U-571 would be my choice.

Mr. Cinema

Yep. Saving Private Ryan and Master and Commander used to be my favorite DTS discs, but War of the Worlds has moved up to my top demo for sound.

Dane

Mostly, anything where Hans Zimmer has done the score.

hifi

Blade: Club scene at the beginning.

Star Wars Episode II: When Obi-Wan is being chased through the asteroid field and Jango Fett is releasing the seismic bombs.

Days of Thunder: Any of the racing