INNERSPACE - Various Problems :-( (1 Viewer)

[DarrenA]

I don't understand this. How can a loose chip cause crackling on only 1 DVD title out of the over 250 titles that I own? I would buy the loose chip theory if it happened on all of my DVDs, but it only happens on one title. And I duplicated this crackling on a Denon 3300 receiver as well.

 

[Edwin_M]

It's not a receiver problem. I tried it on three different players with three different sound systems got the crackling on all of them.

 

[Adam Barratt]

In any case, it sounds as if someone forgot the dialogue normalisation when they were mixing the 5.1 track for Innerspace, so the theatrical treble boost on the dialogue channel has remained. And it's led to that crackly, harsh sounding effect on the centre in the final mix, I guess.

Dialog Normalization has nothing to do with high frequency attenuation or re-equalisation of any kind. It simply attenuates the overall volume of the soundtrack.

Some people simply don't seem to notice the sort of distortion described above, which is present in numerous soundtracks. I have listened to systems belonging to those who claim not to hear it and have always heard it without any difficulty.

Adam

 

[John H Ross]

Some people simply don't seem to notice the sort of distortion described above, which is present in numerous soundtracks. I have listened to systems belonging to those who claim not to hear it and have always heard it without any difficulty.

The question is what, if anything, can we do about it? Can the fault be spotted and corrected at the mastering stage or is there no way to correct it?

I'm slightly worried about WB's forthcoming Gremlins, Gremlins 2, The Swarm, Firefox, etc... will they all be plagued with the same fault?

Oh and I'm delighted that at least ONE expert has no spotted this. How do these things continue to go unnoticed by the so-called reviewers at DVD File, The Digital Bits, etc?

John

 

[Mark_Wilson]

Ok, I'd like to do some careful listening to see if I can hear even a small part of this. Does anyone have a chapter or time code where this crackling happens?

 

[Geoff_D]

Oops. Exposed for the amateur that I am. Still, you can't win 'em all. Thanks for the info.

 

[Edwin_M]

A good scene to listen for the crackling is chapter 2 where Dennis Quaid does his drunken speech at the party.

 

[JohnS]

Well, I just played this for a SECOND TIME last night, and it was FLAWLESS. Not one problem!

 

[Sean Oakley]

Edwin, Darren, John

I don't have the Innerspace disc yet but my system does exhibit this same problem with the Superman SE. There have been a couple of others too but Superman is by far the worst that I have come across on my Onkyo THX receiver and Mirage centre speaker. The entire film, when played at reference volume level has clicking and crackling in almost every line of dialogue and is especially bad in all the scenes on Krypton.

My friend also has the same disc and it does crackle on his system also.

Another disc that comes to mind is Rules Of Engagement that has the same symptoms on my system and that's a Paramount disc so Warner is not the only one to worry about.

 

[Mark_Wilson]

Now that is weird. I watched Superman SE twice this weekend, my kid is on a super hero kick. Got all the Batman movies and Superman 2 on order now. Anyway, I had no crackling on the two viewings of Superman. Again I'm using Denon 3802.

 

[JohnS]

I watched Superman as well, on a Denon 3801 and I also heard NO cracking of any kind

 

[Kwang Suh]

Ahh, good old crackle...

The age of the film has nothing to do with the chances of the dvd having crackle. There are lots of recent releases with nicely ear-splitting crackle in them.

 

[John H Ross]

There's definitely a problem here guys, it's just that some people are able to detect it better than others.

So what causes it? Why does it affect some titles (old and new) and not others?

John

 

[JohnS]

I'm putting my ear up to the speakers, and I once again, am getting NO CRACKS

 

[Mark_Wilson]

So far it seems to be only with Yamaha receivers, granted its only two reports. I wish others would chime in with their hardware.
fyi, that denon 3300 is a dvd player, not receiver. http://www.denon.com/catalog/pdfs/dvd3300LIT.pdf

 

[DarrenA]

FYI, you forgot about the Denon AVR-3300 RECEIVER.
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[Mark_Wilson]

Didn't see that listed under receivers, is it an old model? Wonder if it uses different chips than the x80x series.

 

[DarrenA]

I believe it was manufactured in the 1999-2000 year range.

 

[Sean Oakley]

I took the Superman SE to a local home theatre demo room yesterday and tried the disc on numerous receiver brands including Pioneer, Yamaha, Marantz, Sony, Denon and Onkyo with identical dialogue crackling results.

And to prove it was not a single disc based problem, the store cracked open their own copy of the movie which exhibited the same problem. Interestingly, I got my hands on a Region 4 copy and it has no problems whatsoever with crackling dialogue but maybe that has something to do
with PAL speedup.

Are the people that are hearing no crackling on their discs playing them at reference level volume?

 

[Brett_B]

I hear the crackling as well.

Sony DVPS7000 (DVD player)
Sony DA30ES (receiver)