Finally after two year of having to watch our late-night films with the sound reduced or to watch them in bed on our beaten up Sony, we were now primed and ready with cameras rolling for this supernatural frightfest.
We turned the central heating completely off and opened all the top window latches to number four, whilst tweaking the Sennhausers for the duration. Our lounge TV was lazily built without headphone jacks and in this day and age reeks of cost cutting measures from those design bods down at Samsung HQ.
All movie sound tracks become muffled when you reach a certain age sounding
marlonbrando-esque as the luvies mumble through scripts for kind perusal. A headphone can make
all the difference to elderly oddities eking out existences in these myriadal worlds of make believe
(films)
Thank you DAC audio converter box and a moment to wallow in your spotlight.
Simply use it with the optical
(a Toslink optical cable is supplied ) but in our opinion inferior so best buy better. You can connect the RCA output to an amp if you want and the audio will not only perfect (
no background noise by the device extended frequency and linear response) but still comply with standards of sensitivity. We set up running the signal to a brace of wireless Senn headsets and the result was magical. You don't even need dedicated external power as it gets it's fix directly from the TV's USB. It does what it says on the box and we wish we had researched the issue earlier, best of it all it came in on budget @under £20 even with the separate toslink.
Back to the film which was called
The Others and starring Nicole Kidman who was as mad as a box of frogs. Also a mention in dispatches to Eric Sykes cameo appearance. We couldn't believe he was still alive until learning it was a 1991 film that had slipped through our net. An Oldham lad from humble beginning back in Sebastapol Terrace
(sykes).
Not got an awful lot of time with slash horrors because unless it's actually you that's getting chased they're not that scary. Halloween or the daft sewer clown going on rampages comes to mind, although the shining was an outstanding piece of kit.
Nicole never disappoints, this time depicting a woman who lives in a darkened house with her two photosensitive kids who becomes convinced her gaff is haunted. We shat our trews and had to go to bed with all the lights even though the directors emphasis was on atmos over lots of cheap jumpy thrills. It was a Spanish director who played his hand to full fruition.
So a ghost type film with a quite brilliant twist to the plot. We scored it 8/10