The Butterfly Effect killed my amplifier
07-23-04, 10:38 PM
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The Butterfly Effect killed my amplifier
Watching the movie late last night, so I didn't even have it on very loud. When the first "WHOMP!" happened, it nearly gave me a heart attack (if you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about).
Lowered the volume after that, but then I couldn't hear the dialogue well, so I turned it up again. Then came the second "WHOMP!" and my receiver clicked off, never to start again.
Took it in to the shop today and was told a "power overload" had fried various circuits. I paid $500 for it four years ago (it was a Yamaha) and the repairs would run $200, so I'm probably just going to get a new one. Until I do, I won't know how the movie turns out.
Has anyone else been sucker-punched by the sound mix of that movie?
Lowered the volume after that, but then I couldn't hear the dialogue well, so I turned it up again. Then came the second "WHOMP!" and my receiver clicked off, never to start again.
Took it in to the shop today and was told a "power overload" had fried various circuits. I paid $500 for it four years ago (it was a Yamaha) and the repairs would run $200, so I'm probably just going to get a new one. Until I do, I won't know how the movie turns out.
Has anyone else been sucker-punched by the sound mix of that movie?
07-24-04, 07:57 AM
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Didn't have a problem on my G/F's crappy Sony / KLH combo. I suspect your amp was about to blow anyway, it could have been Wizard of Oz in there. The fuses should have held up as well, which again, points to problems with the amp.
07-24-04, 10:02 AM
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Originally posted by Jeff L
Can anyone tell me what times these sounds occur, so I can expect them?
Can anyone tell me what times these sounds occur, so I can expect them?
07-24-04, 11:07 AM
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Maybe if you concentrate really hard, you can go back and save your amplifier . . . but then something else will go terribly wrong and your player will explode into flames causing a massive fire that will burn up your entire DVD collection . . . but that's OK, cause you could go back again and save your collection . . . but then the fire will spread out of control and burn down your entire neighborhood killing hundreds of people . . . but you could go back and save them . . . but then the population of your town will grow disproportionately and become a major metropolitan area and then be the site of the next terrorist attack! But if you went back and stopped that then you would stop . . .
Oh hell, just buy a new amp.
Oh hell, just buy a new amp.
07-25-04, 12:14 PM
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I only watched the DC when me and the GF rented it, but I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely reeks of that whole Fincher-esque atmosphere (not necessarily a bad thing) which has been copied a thousand times, but I still enjoyed it.
07-25-04, 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by Mok
It's funny if you listen to the commentary the directors say something about wrecking peoples speakers with the sound mix.
It's funny if you listen to the commentary the directors say something about wrecking peoples speakers with the sound mix.
Count me as pleasantly surprised by this flick. It's not great, but certainly better than the mediocrity I expected.