I recently watched the Pirates - Dead Man Chest DVD and was very upset that it had "too much bass". I had just calibrated my whole system and watched the first LOTR with the DTS ES soundtrack - and the whole thing sounded fantastic. Not sure if Pirates 2 suffered from its Dolby only soundtrack, but the bass was so heavy in the beginning of the movie that I could barely hear some of the higher frequencies. Waves were crashing around the ship but I couldn't hear the splash above the deep bass notes. Peoples voices were drowned out by the bass and were difficult to make out. So I paused the movie, cranked down the sub and continued watching.

The point of this thread is NOT to bash the Pirates soundtrack, but rather to uphold the beauty of home theater. What if I was in a cinema and the bass was too low or high? I couldn't ask them to pause the film and ask them to make adjustments. At home I inconvienced two other viewers for about 15 seconds and we all enjoyed the movie - with great deep bass shaking my riser at the proper moments (as opposed to nearly all the time).

That is the best part of home theater - making slight adjustments so that every movie you watch is nearly perfect.