We’ve been using Training Day as a tester ever since we got it on DVD (yes, DVD) over 20 years ago. If it’s not yet clear, the sound design of this Jordan Peele mystery is masterful, doing much of the presentational heavy lifting, and it will hugely reward those with a system that’s spatially organised, detailed, dynamic and weighty.īuy Nope on 4K Blu-ray from Amazon Training Day (2001) – the finale

It doesn’t sound happy, and how has it got up there? And then there’s the horse, which you can no longer see but you can hear. A classic jump scare, and you’ve fallen for it.Īt various points throughout the scene, your room is filled with voices echoing across the rolling landscape and more of that peculiar-sounding 'wind'. Is that the wind or… something else?Īs you strain to try and figure out the answer to that question, a much louder, bassier thump scares the life out of you. Then there’s another sound coming from above. Without giving too much away, there’s something peculiar going on in the skies above the farm, and this early scene does a brilliant job of ratcheting up the mystery and tension, largely through the soundtrack.Ī good Atmos system will place the incidental sounds of the desert all around the room, and there’s lovely detail to the crunch of Daniel Kaluuya’s boots on the gravel and to the concerned snort of the unsettled horse.

It’s hard to write about Nope without spoiling it, so while we could have picked any number of scenes to showcase the awesome Dolby Atmos soundtrack, we’ve picked an earlyish one that tells the story of Ghost, one of the horses on the farm at the centre of the story.

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