Jurassic Park, Subwoofer and DTS

[cjantz]

I have a few DTS disks that I have used before with no problem(MIB,Jaws,Daylight). When I watched these movies before I had no subwoofer and the front speaker settings were large. This is on a Onkyo 575. Then, recently I added a Velodyne CT-100 subwoofer, it was great. THEN, I got Jurassic Park (DTS), I made sure the front speaker setting was small, per all the advice in this forum. Jurassic Park was the first DTS disc I watched since I got the CT-100. It was bad, in the scene were the helicopter is first approaching the island I experience what I think are drop outs, it sounded like a skipping CD,I am fairly new to HT and had not had this problem before and am not sure what it is. I checked all my cables and everything was OK. I played MIB (DTS) for the first time with the CT-100 and had the same problems. Now, for the twist, if I change the speaker setting back to large the problem goes away. Am I missing something here, where could this problem be coming from? Please help if you can. Why would switching the speakers to small make this happen. It does not happen when listening to DD 5.1 with the speakers set to small.
Sorry so long and thanks for your help,

Chris Jantz

[Mike Meeks]

Check out this dvd talk thread.
http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/018210.html

[jorak]

I have the same problems with Jurassic Park on an Onkyo 575 with AudioSource SW-15 subwoofer. I'll try switching to Large when I get home. Oddly though, I don't have any problems with skipping with The Jackal DTS or Saving Private Ryan DTS. The sound skips badly during the helicopter scene and the entire ending of JP. I'll have a friend with a Sony/Bose setup test it to see if my disk is bad.

[DNMonty]

Weird, I have an Onkyo 575x and have had no skipping or DTS problems. The sub is strong and clean. My son (4 yrs old) has seen the VHS version of JP @ least a dozen times. Like every little kid they tend to memorize what they watch. He was used to watching it on a little TV with a stereo VCR. Well let me tell you, he just about jump out of his skin @ the first roar of the T-Rex. No dropping, skipping, dull sound. Am I just lucky? Is it the combination of my components? I haven't played on my secondary system to see how it plays, but it's only ProLogic anyways.

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Main system
Sony 32" Trinitron, Onkyo TX-DS575x, Pioneer DV-525, JBL Music1 mains, Phase Technology 1C center, Advent Baby II surrounds, Infinity BU-120 sub
Auxiliary system
LXI 46" Rear Projection TV (old), PC-DVD DXR3, Onkyo 3130Pro, Acoustic Research AR3a, JBL Center, KLH surrounds

[jorak]

My guess is it's because I have the original 575 and you have the newer 575X