Best movie for subwoofer test ?

If you can get past the way the movie is shot, Cloverfield will really test the limits of your subwoofers.

There is a massive list of sub heavy movies on the avs.com site. They even cite the chapters etc.

Go to the forums section called Subwoofers/Transducers and you're off to the races.

I find War of the Worlds with the scene of the spaceships when they first appear to be the lowest note I have ever heard through my sub. Lots of movies have explosions but this is more like a pipe organ the size of a large building.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=755493

Master & Commander/Far Side of The World.
U571
War Of The Worlds

The complex soundscape of M&C will give an entire surround system a real work-out, especially the sub - the LFs plumb the depths on all sorts of things, including, of course, cannon shots and explosions. If the sub doesn't spit the bit on M&C then it's passed the test.

If the sub sounds like undiferrentiated low rumblings on these different movies, forget it, it ain't good enough. You should be able to tell the depth charges from the cannon shots from the rumbling spaceships.

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