I'll try to limit the list to what hasn't been said. Then again, I didn't read thoroughly throughout the post.

The Fifth Element without a doubt, period, end of story. Everything from the score to the effects to .. you name it will give you goose bumps.

i, Robot .. the highway chase, among others.

Pearl Harbor .. and not necessarily the bombing scenes .. just sit back and take in the ultra realistic engine (Mitsubishi I believe) sounds during the dog fight when Affleck gets toasted. I snicker every single time ...

Seabiscuit .. various scenes.

Contact .. various scenes, especially when Foster is entering the traveling device in Japan and the subsequent scenes.

Sky Captain

Titanic, Cast Away, Munich, Master and Commander, War of the Worlds, Matrix trilogy, U571 .. and so on. You have so many DVDs in your collection that require a subwoofer. Just re-experience them all and have fun enjoying your new toy!!!!

:thumbsup: I use that to test my bass level as well.

Another good all-around choice is Top Gun.

Don't own 'em.

And, again, don't own it.

That's the one I always use, just pop it in, crank the volume and the first few minutes are awesome!

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - One of the best Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks you'll ever hear. Cut to the sequence where the robots are thundering through the city!

Saving Private Ryan - The approaching tank sequence. It's a classic for a reason.

The Butterfly Effect - But be careful with this one - Click me :lol:

The Haunting - DTS-ES version - will make your sub blow raspberries if it's not up to the job.

Don't have 'em, but I look forward to checking out the other two recommendations!

How about Punch Drunk Love. ;)

Star Wars dvds

I see no one has mentioned Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within yet - there's some really solid, great sounding low bass in that flick.

LOTR I-"Balin's Tomb".

haha I know exactly what you're talking about. I had just received my new theatre system in the mail and event horizon from DDD so I set up the system and used event horizon to test out the speakers. When the movie first started up and they are panning the camera by the ship my walls started to shake and as they got closer to the ship and the engine the subwoofer started shooting out huge bursts of air. I'm in the basement and it felt like the ceiling was about to collapse, like there was an earthquake or something.

I always liked the DTS track on Jurassic Park III. Where the Spino is ripping the plane to shreds and the the T-Rex fight after.

Superbit DTS soundmix of Bram Stoker's Dracula - the scene where Dracula in large bat form is stomping around the room - very effective low, low bass.

Definitely War of the Worlds.

These are the two that came to mind when I clicked the thread, and I see ya have them both.

Thanks guys! So, after reading this thread I decided to check out a couple of my DVD's that you mentioned, and discovered I wasn't getting any bass at all. Went to the back of my receiver and discovered that the last time I altered my HT setup, I plugged my subwoofer into my multi-channel out. Whoops! Plugged it into the correct area and now things are great.

The bonus is that I've also rediscovered a few movies in my collection that I had completely forgotten about.

I didnt think that your DVD player had to be compatible.

You connect your DVD player to your receiver with a digital audio cable bypassing the DAC in the DVD player and using the DAC in the receiver.

If your receiver is capable of playing DTS tracks you should be all set.

All your DVD player is doing is sending the audio track to your receiver, not decoding it.

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For a somewhat newer title, Unleashed does the trick (shit any Luc Besson/european action movie could do the trick as they like to use techno dance music for action scenes. Also Hero in DTS 6.1EX, the scene at the begining when the Jet Li character goes through the water.
And if anyone wants a song to test their sub out,
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6qCfiYeRf7M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6qCfiYeRf7M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
find a way to put that on a CD, and skip to about 3:50 and turn the bass up

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try either a music/concert dvd or a audio cd.. Like the Crystal Method!