Relatively quiet tracks and moments can lack the delicacy and warmth you get with good dedicated hi - fi speakers and while the SJ9 delivers a remarkably detailed vertical
wall of sound in front of you, there's no real sense of any sound coming from directly above you as you would expect to hear with a full Atmos speaker array.
Not exact matches
«If your house is going to be struck by a
wall of air or a tornado or a hurricane, you want to be
in a place that is structurally
sound.»
The Federal Reserve and many
Wall Street economists have been saying for months that an economic slowdown
in the first part
of the year would soon give way to faster growth, but their predictions have begun to
sound hollow
in the face
of ever more dour economic news.
In both June and July, the Senate took testimony on what
Wall Street has been doing with depositor money instead
of making
sound loans to
sound businesses.
It is amazing to see how many capable businessmen try to operate
in Wall Street with complete disregard
of all the
sound principles through which they have gained success
in their own undertakings.
An old - fashioned house
of gloomy appearance, closed
in with high
walls, with an iron gate, and yews, and the report attaching to it that «Roman Catholics» lived there; but who they were, or what they did, or what was meant by calling them Roman Catholics, no one could tell; though it had an unpleasant
sound, and told
of form and superstition....
It also wasn't the
sound of the guys
in orange blazers bashing their heads against the
walls, although given their dreams
of matching Nebraska against unbeaten Penn State for the national championship, perhaps it should have been.
«It was my first Duck game at Autzen Stadium my freshman year, which meant it was the first time I walked the footbridge from campus to the stadium and the first time I experienced the
wall of Autzen
sound when Joey Harrington led a comeback win against the Trojans late
in the fourth to seal a win, ultimately leading me down my personal and professional college football path.»
We're cocooned inside a
wall of sound and water — the spray shoots off the bow and arches up
in a fountain
of froth.
The rowdy, partisan Liverpool crowd did not give Raheem Sterling a moment's peace on his return to Merseyside
in a City shirt — but to say that their
wall of sound unsettled him would do a disservice to Robertson, who did a fine job on Sterling with his pace and determination.
Whether it's the living room or the den
in the back
of the house, your sports fan will be thrilled with a big screen TV, surround
sound, and tons
of sports memorabilia on the
wall.
You're getting
in a litter exercise, getting some happy endorphins, and the crying won't
sound as bad since there aren't any
walls to bounce the
sound off
of.
Geer,
in Sanskrit is Celebrity / Mountain / Praising / Invoking / words / fame / language / kind
of mystical syllable Geer
in Dutch = Spear The same
sounds similar to the name, «Geert» Geert,
in German = Brave / Hearty / Strength Geert is a variant
of Scandivanian name, «Geir» Geir = Stone
Wall While
in Norwegian, Geir = Spear (Same as the Dutch meaning
of «Geer»)
A Bronx mom and her 7 - year - old son are kept up at night by the
sound of rodents
in their
walls.
A hundred speakers and subwoofers hidden
in the
walls can shake the floor and rattle your eardrums as they blast out the thunderous noise
of a plane breaking the
sound barrier.
Northwestern University professor Nina Kraus shed light on one
of the brain's most complex tasks — making sense
of sound — during the recent Falling
Walls conference
in Berlin.
«
In order to be structurally
sound, plants have to lay down their secondary cell
walls very quickly once the plant has stopped growing, like a layer
of concrete with rebar,» says UBC botanist Lacey Samuels, one
of the senior authors on the paper.
In addition to the electrical barriers, the Corps would attach speakers to the
walls and bottom
of an engineered concrete channel, and these would emit
sounds to chase away the fish.
Embedded
in the
wall of the hive, miniature accelerometers will measure the vibrations
in the honeycomb caused by the bees» activity and the
sounds they create.
Congratulations to Ian Patrick and Robert Healey from the University
of Kansas, for being awarded 2014 Newman Student Award Medals, for work on «Investigations into the
Sound Absorbing Properties
of Gypsum
Wall Board», which the two presented at the recent ASA Conference
in Providence.
We all lay
in a circular formation with our heads towards the center
of the dome while the
sound bounced off the
walls in interesting and disorienting ways.
Find a peaceful place where there is a
wall at work or home where you can listen to soothing music,
sounds of nature, and lie down.You can even do it
in bed!
I love these candles
in part because
of the places and stories they take as their inspiration: The minty Balmoral is inspired by damp and green Scottish meadows; the Carmelite by shadows on stone
walls and church candles... a quiet cloister doesn't
sound too bad about now.
That
sounds amusing but many online daters dwell on Using cutting - edge, mobile - live technology, viewers get a fly - on - the -
wall point
of view
in real - time, across multiple time zones, as cameras capture the
Composer Mica Levi and
sound designer Johnnie Burn put
in overtime on this one; it's a valid complaint that most mainstream movies are
wall - to -
wall music and explosions, but here's an example
of using
sound to challenge and disconcert an audience rather than lulling and entertaining them.
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Part
of its impact is lost on modern audiences, namely because this is from 1927, it's silent, and
in sepia tones, as opposed to being modern, cgi - heavy,
in color, and loaded up with balls to the
wall sound effects.
When it works, the movement
in the game can be a lot
of fun, but it always seemed like whenever I got some momentum going, I'd end up getting stuck on an object or
in a
wall, or fall into a pit
of water (touch water twice
in a row, and you drown — sending you back to a checkpoint), or the evil Wild Card boxes will appear seemingly out
of nowhere to slow you down with their blast
of sound.
VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - A seated man's legs stick out beyond a dividing
wall in a bathroom that hides the toilet and the rest
of the man (we see pools
of blood around the man's shoes and blood splatter across most
of the
wall and extending into the area where the toilet would be, on the sink
in front
of the man, on the floor beneath the vanity, and on the floor beyond the pools
of blood); sirens
sound off - screen, another man
in the house tells a sheriff's deputy that he brought two pizzas for the dead homeowner, the owner did not like anchovies, and so the owner brought out a gun and blew his own brains (we hear that the dead man had just been evicted from his house).
Steven Galvin enters the
wall of sound of «The Frames:
In The Deep Shade», which screened as part
of the 11th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
Generally lacking
in nuance, the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix takes a
wall -
of -
sound approach to the song selections, which have a slightly more immersive character here than they would on CD.
Sparkling with slick, sick musical colors, Martinez conjures the artificiality
of a realm where looks are everything, an all - consuming
wall of knowingly hip
sound that's utterly hypnotic
in its little girl lost fairly tale feel, gnarled samples and unnerving atmospheres that perfectly complement Refn's truly sick sense
of humor while creating a memorable, plastic musical realm all its own.
It doesn't
sound like Fifty Shades
of Grey had to contest its rating, something The Wolf
of Wall Street had to do after it initially received an NC - 17 back
in 2013.
And it pays off extraordinarily well
in the second - half, which heads back to colonial Africa for an homage to F.W. Murnau «s film
of the same name, silent beyond narration, and the occasional blast
of Wall of Sound pop.
The attendant 5.1 DTS - HD MA track is a 360 °
wall of sound whenever the offices
of Stratton Oakmont erupt
in mayhem, although dialogue is always very clear above the fray, including much throwaway ADR.
Instead, I got lost
in La La Land all over again — its wistful ballad City
of Stars and its tub - thumping opener Another Day
of Sun and its heady, brassy, ear - wormy
wall of sound created by Chazelle, composer Justin Hurwitz, and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Whether to document Fontaine's frustrated but affecting communication with the prisoners
in adjacent cells or to establish his awareness
of life outside the prison
walls,
sounds and unseen spaces assume a vivid reality every bit as palpable as what we see on the screen.
It opens with a fun little piece, «The Wailing
Wall», various ethnic
sounds joining the orchestra (the film starts
in Jerusalem)-- it
sounds like western film composers» versions
of Middle Eastern bazaars always
sound — and it's great.
DRACULA III: LEGACY ** 1/2 / **** Image A
Sound A Extras B starring Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Westcourt, Rutger Hauer screenplay by Joel Soisson & Patrick Lussier directed by Patrick Lussier HELLRAISER: DEADER * / **** Image A -
Sound B - Extras B starring Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz, Doug Bradley screenplay by Neal Marshall Stevens and Tim Day directed by Rick Bota THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER 1/2 * / **** Image B +
Sound A Extras B starring Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Emmanuelle Chriqui screenplay by Lance Mungia & Jeff Most and Sean Hood directed by Lance Mungia by Walter Chaw This is the game plan if you're
in the business
of producing direct - to - video schlock for Dimension: go to Romania (the poor man's Czech Republic, itself the poor man's Toronto — itself the poor man's New York), show some tits, throw buckets
of blood against the
wall, and scrimp, wherever possible, on niceties like script and direction.
Teachers can fix some
of the problems by establishing noise level standards (or a cool website to monitor classroom noise levels), taking loud activities outside
in consideration
of other classes, putting up
sound - dampening
wall - hangings or flags, or turning off noise - making computers and LCD projectors.
The design team explains, «The triangular apertures
of walls and ceiling [not only absorbs
sound] but also slows diffraction with double
walls to diffuse
sound, reflecting it
in a variety
of directions.
By increasing students» awareness
of the vowel and spelling patterns that create different
sounds in words, Phonemic Word
Walls improve students» reading fluency and build spelling skills.
It
sounds so democratic, a very American idea: break down the
walls of «remedial,» «average» and «advanced» classes so that all students
in each grade can learn together, with lessons that teachers «differentiate» to challenge each individual.
Because conventional speakers wouldn't be durable enough to be left out
in the open, the Ridgeline features six exciters embedded into the bed
walls that can be controlled by the dashboard interface to provide 540 watts
of sound.
There's precious little
sound deadening
in the CSL, and carbon fiber - the roof, the inner door panels, and the center console are all made
of the lightweight stuff - conducts noise like the
walls of a cheap motel.
The substantial thickness
of the glass
walls also allows the smallest abnormalities
in sound to be detected
in dynamic checks that monitor noise and vibration.
In one
of mankind's greatest technology triumphs since the beer cooler ice chest got wheels, the 2017 Honda Ridgeline pickup has turned the truck bed into a
sound system with the addition
of six speakers to the bed
walls.
There was only one person
in the food - stall who knew exactly what that
sound was that was rolling
in across the plain, along the silver curve
of the Irrawaddy, to the western
wall of Mandalay's fort.
During the day I heard them tunneling through the
walls of my bedroom,
sounding like a radio tuned to static
in the next room, and I imagined them
in there turning the
walls into honeycombs, with honey seeping out for me to taste.
Ah, another Saturday morning and I'm sipping a cup
of Yerba Maté tea and listening to the sweet
sounds of raccoons fighting
in the ceiling and
walls above and around me.