Quote Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
I think the Cinerama Dome's acoustical problems really depended on where you sat in the auditorium. The further back from the front of the auditorium you sat, the more prone your were to hearing nasty echos and comb filtering.

I saw several classic movies in the Cinerama process after the Dome renovations. How the West was Won, Seven Wonders of the World, This is Cinerama, South Sea Adventure, and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. They looked and sounded great. And yes, every show I went to was packed

The Manns Village is also a very good theater though I found its sound system to be a bit heavy in the bass. One of the main things I notice about LA theaters is that they pay very close attention to the quality of their presentation. There just is no movie audience like you find in Los Angeles.
Finally saw Cars (GREAT movie, which will probably see many repeat viewings) at the Arclight last night, and man you talk about attention to presentation quality! Last night was the first time I'd seen been to the multiplex auditoriums at the Arclight, and I must say this is the best multiplex theater I've ever been to.

It's not just the presentation quality, which was top notch (the surround imaging in particular sounds great, by far the best I've heard from a stadium seating auditorium), but how they take care of every other little detail. Reserved seating, double wide armrests, no advertising, extra legroom, no seats too close to the screen, outstanding customer service, bar service in the lobby, no late seating, live announcements telling patrons to shut off cellphones and to shut the hell up during the movie, a clean lobby design that doesn't look like it came out of a Vegas casino, and Hebrew National hot dogs at the concessions stands! Well worth the $11 price of admission for a movie experience that gets so many things right.

The Village theater is not nearly as bassy as before. That gigantic subwoofer enclosure that took up so much space at the front of the theater is now gone. Too bad, because I liked that pinned-to-the-seat sensation that the Village's old subwoofer array created! Even though the bass level was high when that sub array was in place, I never found it excessive because they never overexerted the subs. In a lot of other theaters, I will hear the subs clearly overworked and sometimes distorted, and way out of balance.