| Zappykins said: I can not encourage your enough to play Alan Wake on a good 5.1 surround sound system with a subwolfer. The environmental sound is a character all on it's own, and when certain sounds go off, you know you are in trouble (and I get scared!) Be warned, it can be loud. I'd say the second best environmental sound would be when a ferocious dragon attacks if you have a subwolfer. Kind of shakes you in the chest the way a real lion roar does (yes, has been near lion making loud and low sounds that vibrate your chest and your organs.) My subwolfer is a nice 13" Sony that drops off around 30-20Hz. As far as HDMI 2, you have remember what HDMI is for - it's DRM to make sure you aren't copying movies and digitally owned material first, second to bring you quality and convenience. Never forget the rule number 1. Good golly, they released the specs as I was typing this! Going to start another thread. Here ya go: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=167731 |
I played Alan Wake on the 360, the 640kbps DD filter didn't do it justice. I was more impressed with the sound in MGS4, turning up the mech section loud is an onslought to the senses, gave me shivers down my spine hearing every crash echoing around the room. That was the closest a game has ever gotten to the effect the F4 tornado at the drive in cinema in Twister had on a good setup.
For the subwoofer I love the turbo sound in NFS hot pursuit, really shakes the room, best take off sound in games to date.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaNMVV64Ks sounds like garbage on my laptop lol.
Best lion roar, Jumanji, thanks to uncompressed CD quality sound on Laserdisc. DVD was a temporary step back in sound quality, blu-ray finally improved the sound part too.
