My wife and I went to see the movie, that had a lot of special effects. Volume was set so low that we couldn't even hear dialog. People started yelling but there was nobody in charge. We went outside to find manager. He explained that there is nobody there in the projection booth since it is controlled by the computer. He wouldn't even know how to make it louder. He gave us free tickets, but we wasted whole evening. Never again.
The Sad State of Movie Theater Sound Systems
In the last 2 weeks I have done something I haven't done in many years,go to a movie theater to see new releases.First was the latest Star Wars & then at a completely different theater the new Dawn of Justice.In BOTH theaters the sound level was WAYYY to loud,distortion was running rampant in both cases.The highs were tipped up & brittle,mids had ABSOLUTELY no organics & bass was booming & 1 note to the MAX!!!If I hadn't paid well over $10.00 per ticket I would probably have walked out of both theaters!So for those of you who regularly go to movie theaters is this the norm or is Seattle just too tight to spend on the good stuff?