They think it’s a gimmick a parlor trick to get between you and your wallet. I need it after ten hours of writing and editing all day long.Ī huge part of that experience is the sound.Ī part of me understands why some people don’t enjoy home theater. The manic side of me doesn’t want drugs, alcohol, gambling, or online fights with woke idiots who have never picked up a book or watched a decent film in their lives.įilms bring me a sense of calm. I watch alone because the movie watching experience allows me to feel a different sense of focus my mind is always working, possibly too hard on things that don’t need to be fixed at that very moment.

Our basement home theater space can be a lonely place at night. My family doesn’t share my intense passion for older films Kurosawa, Wilder, Fuller, Hitch, Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Woo, and Kubrick all take me someplace new every single time I watch one of their films. The subsequent grounding that lasted until January 1984 was well worth it.īeing stuck at home during the lockdowns forced us to home school 3 children on Zoom for almost 5 months, leaving us with only a few hours at night (utterly exhausted) to enjoy new movies or television programs on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, and Vudu.

I skipped two days of school in 1983 (I was 13) to be the first person in line to see The Return of the Jedi. How often have I attended films since theaters reopened locally on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 2020?Īccording to my bank records, I’ve watched more than 44 movies alone (or with my kids) at my local AMC and only 10 of those films were classics from the 1980s like the 40 th anniversary showing of The Empire Strikes Back. I own more than 3,700 different titles and I am confident claiming that I may be the only person in New Jersey to have seen every new film release during the pandemic at his local AMC. But could a soundbar system from Theory Audio Design move the needle enough for me to reconsider everything that I know about surround sound at home?Īs much as I love music, movies have always been my passion. Over the past 20 years, I’ve intentionally avoided calling any product the “Best” I’ve ever heard for the simple reason that it’s not a statement with any degree of longevity.

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