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Dolby SurroundSound
May. 28th, 2004 01:22 am
There is a god and his name is THX...
So I cough up a little from my checks each payday for United Way - this year they held a raffle. On the prize sheet, there's my name, w/"JVC Home Stereo" after it. When I got to the Excalibur this afternoon, I figured it would be, if anything, a glorified boom-box. Not that I'm complaining, mind you - I rarely ever win anything. I won an autographed Ratt album one time. And radio-station t-shirts. But never anything neat.
So I go to the purchasing office, and the guy gives me this big-ass box - all I see pictured on the box is a flat unit & a bunch of speakers. And it's heavy, so I'm thinking it's an AM/FM w/a CD-Changer. I have Rob drive around to the loading dock to pick it up. Upon further inspection, it's a JVC DVD home theatre system, complete w/the ability to read CD-R/RW's, DVD-R/RW's, and a nifty lil' Dolby SurroundSound speaker set-up.
After about 3 hrs. & one broken bookshelf, Rob had it wired and placed about the living room. So we're listening to the television & faintly you can hear things on the speakers behind us. I flipped channels around, found some rap vid on MTV2 - it sounded pretty darned good. (This system has a Subwoofer - it's as big as the main unit of my computer). So Rob decides to pop in the Need for Speed game, which has some good music on it - as I'm listening to it, I start thinking, "Hmmm... I wonder how Bawitaba would sound on this?" So I whip out my Kid Rock CD, pop it in the tray & proceeded to start smiling to the point where my face hurts. The minute Kid went, "My name is Kiiiiiiiddddddd ROCK!" it was like that old MTV ad, where the guy is sitting in a chair in front of his tv, & everything - his hair, the lamp, the chair, his curtains, everything in the room, is blown backwards. Me & Rob started cackling like fiends. We are such techno-whores.
To top it off, we whipped out our PoTC DVD for the first time - the THX ad came on, & that THX sound whizzed by the back of our heads, just like in a freakin' movie theatre. It was so completely, utterly, fantastically unbelievably cool. I think I may know what it means to be truly happy.
So I cough up a little from my checks each payday for United Way - this year they held a raffle. On the prize sheet, there's my name, w/"JVC Home Stereo" after it. When I got to the Excalibur this afternoon, I figured it would be, if anything, a glorified boom-box. Not that I'm complaining, mind you - I rarely ever win anything. I won an autographed Ratt album one time. And radio-station t-shirts. But never anything neat.
So I go to the purchasing office, and the guy gives me this big-ass box - all I see pictured on the box is a flat unit & a bunch of speakers. And it's heavy, so I'm thinking it's an AM/FM w/a CD-Changer. I have Rob drive around to the loading dock to pick it up. Upon further inspection, it's a JVC DVD home theatre system, complete w/the ability to read CD-R/RW's, DVD-R/RW's, and a nifty lil' Dolby SurroundSound speaker set-up.
After about 3 hrs. & one broken bookshelf, Rob had it wired and placed about the living room. So we're listening to the television & faintly you can hear things on the speakers behind us. I flipped channels around, found some rap vid on MTV2 - it sounded pretty darned good. (This system has a Subwoofer - it's as big as the main unit of my computer). So Rob decides to pop in the Need for Speed game, which has some good music on it - as I'm listening to it, I start thinking, "Hmmm... I wonder how Bawitaba would sound on this?" So I whip out my Kid Rock CD, pop it in the tray & proceeded to start smiling to the point where my face hurts. The minute Kid went, "My name is Kiiiiiiiddddddd ROCK!" it was like that old MTV ad, where the guy is sitting in a chair in front of his tv, & everything - his hair, the lamp, the chair, his curtains, everything in the room, is blown backwards. Me & Rob started cackling like fiends. We are such techno-whores.
To top it off, we whipped out our PoTC DVD for the first time - the THX ad came on, & that THX sound whizzed by the back of our heads, just like in a freakin' movie theatre. It was so completely, utterly, fantastically unbelievably cool. I think I may know what it means to be truly happy.
