From the first time I watched Jonathan Mostow's U571 on DVD in DTS, I knew this was going to be one of my favorite demo DVDs to show off the system with....explosions that come from every single 5.1 speaker, loud creaks and moans of the inside of a submarine, and DANGEROUSLY loud bass from exploding depth charges...in fact, my subwoofer was turned up so high when watching this DVD some time back that it sounded dangerously close to being damaged....since that time, my system has been tweaked a couple of times and the subwoofer level has been significantly dropped both in calibration and volume, so it was no surprise that when watching this again last night -- with the friend who brought over T3 when I reviewed that -- the depth charge scenes didnt have the exact same impact from what I remember...but this film STILL remains reference quality for many reasons.

My friend never saw U571, but after telling me he was a fan of Crimson Tide, Hunt For Red October and the Widowmaker, I knew he would like this...and he did. The surround DTS track was so startling that there were many times he looked at my surround speakers in disbelief----it REALLY DID sound like we were inside that sub with the creaking pipes and steam blowing around us. As I said, when the depth charges blew off, I could remember, prior to lowering my sub's levels, during these scenes the bass so loud and deep it would rumble my whole apartment....since turning these levels down due to strain on my sub that I later discovered, the impact during the depth charges weren't so direct---but they were there; it just didnt rumble as loud or deep as I remember.

After U571, we watched the newly remastered Escape From New York, which I reviewed on here, because my friend is a fan of the film like me, and it was tough to go from such a loud, aggressive DTS soundtrack like U571 to Escape's 5.1 Dolby Digital remix.

Make U571 your demo disc, still....or one of them....you wont be dissapointed...