Calling all Bass heads: One scene that says it all about your sub...urgent

War of the worlds....the opening when the machine rises from below,,,,,

My favorite disk to use is Monster's Inc blu-ray. There are so many great bass scenes that make it very easy to tell how my system is doing. Chapter 4 as they are walking through town has two great, but different bass moments. 23-19 has some really low frequency stuff. And of course the chapter "Back in the Apt." has awesome bass effects with a variety of tones. You could look for the waterfalls to see exactly what they cover.

What I like about the disk is that bass is so clean, very easy to distinguish tonality. I'm sure others who know more will have better suggestions, but that's always been my go-to disk to test bass.

The incredible Hulk(second one), and Transformers 2. They have a good mix of mid bass and low frequencies. Just play the last battle scene in Transformers 2, it has mid bass from helicopters which pounds, and low frequency pulse waves through out the scene.

FOTP plane crash scene!!!

This is the best 20-40hz scene on the planet but not much in the midbass department. The DarkNight has awesome midbass but below 20 hz is rare. WOTW hasd excellent less than 40 hz bass but again only a couple of midbass slams. It is hard to get all the frequncies within one scene but Transformers 2 does come very close. Gamelover can get all the frequencies from the same movie but will have to pick different scenes. Maybe 9 has some midbass slam because I know it has awesome low frequencies.

FOTP? Flight of the Phoenix?

District 9 or the Tim Burton sock puppet movie?

9- by Tim Burton This one

Nine- musical

District 9- alien movie by peter Jackson

For a real quicky sub/bass evaluation scene, I personally like Chapter 2 (RAF air raid in Tunisia, northern Africa) in the movie Valkyrie... the events leading up to the loss of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's (Tom Cruise) left eye and fingers on his right hand. You have everything in just that one scene... mid-bass, low bass, sub-sonic vibrations, the surrounds are active with planes passing over head, (dynamic) bass shocks and rumbling bass. In less than one short minute, your system is exposed to lots of varied bass excitement and I feel is a good evaluation tool you can also use to check for sync issues as well.

Transformers 2 final battle scene is a good mix. Punch and low stuff.

The Incredible Hulk - Campus fight scene. Also, the last 20 minutes of the movie

Cloverfield as well. When the alien interupts the roof party.

Any episode of the original TV series "Star Trek" will get you that deep down earth shaking bass you need for testing and demo to impress the friends. My favorite Episode to test bass out with is "The Trouble with Tribbles".

Terminator: Salvation (particularly the gas station scene).

Kung-Fu Panda - Skidoooooosh

Terminator Salvation
Smokin Aces
The Incredible Hulk
Public Enemies(the woods gunfight scene provides huge midbass slam)
Transformers 1 and 2
Crank 2 had some decent stuff
Hot Fuzz
It comes out tomorrow but Saving Private Ryan on blu ray...not DVD
Minority Report
Rambo (new one)
Alien vs Predator Reqiuem
Master and Commander
U571
Cant think of any more at the time.

My fav....Shook the whole HT room with immense power.

On another note, there a few new blu-ray releases with 25Hz filter. This is not going to help us, the bass nuts

Yeah but the only ones we know of are M&C, Avatar and LotR:RotK.

Most of the movies I was going to suggest are already listed.

A couple additional ones I like to use for reference are:

Starwars Episode 1 - the pod race scene
Sherlock Holmes - there was some amazing low bass during a few scenes
Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World - great cannon blasts

I am sure there are more, but it sounds like you have a good idea by now.

How about Bolt?

Haven't seen that yet. I'll have to get it into my queue.

Cloverfield ... Scene just before them entering the subway. This might be what you're looking for - great from subsonics to midbass - Very dynamic!

TS gas station - good scene for adjusting crossovers.

Star Wars Ep2 - opening scene with ship flybys and ending with the ship exploding just after it lands. That explosion rocks ... literally!

Star Trek - Any scene with ships entering warp - also, when Vulcan implodes - super deep stuff there.

Just be careful of the Ironman Bluray, on somne systems it automatically puts on "night mode" (dynamic range compression) on your reciever (or was it the bluray player itself) and so any movie you play afterwards will have limited audio till you manually go in and turn the DRC off again.

Knowing is a somewhat closet movie that has some impact. The plane crash scene has a little "crap your pants" dynamics.

Oh yeah, "Max Payne" has awesome LFE!! Too bad the movie sucked!

You are really missing out if you don't try the "pod emerging" scene in War of the Worlds and "depth charged" in U-571.

Both are tremendous, and "depth charged" has some nice surround as well.

Also, make sure to check out the Finding Nemo scene where Darla taps on the glass (you have to back it up about 2-3 seconds before the start of the scene for full effect).

I agree with the near-opening scene of Valkyrie with the plane attack...has it all.

I nearly lost a living room window when my Trinity got angry!

James