Wheel Of Fortune is the movie soundtrack to Pirates of the Caribbean (2006) – Dead Man’s Chest, composed and performed by Hans Zimmer and the Orchestra.
This is a very powerful piece of music, mixed with lots of powerful bass instruments in the background. Playing the climaxes continuously throughout the song is a huge challenge for all sound reproduction systems.
With a good sound reproduction system, the listener will experience an indescribable feeling that is very suspenseful and thrilling, with the intensity changing up and down, which is very attractive. The sounds performed by the musical instrument groups of the orchestra, as well as the continuous change of the sound layers, will be able to be felt and heard easily and clearly.
However, if the system setup is not good enough, the sound will be very noisy, and the musical instrument groups of the orchestra will be messy. At that time, the overall stage will be a mess of loud sound, not music, and the listener will be truly tired of such a mess of sounds. If the frequency bands are not balanced, the position of the musical instrument groups of the orchestra and the layer of sounds will be incorrect, unclear, and mixed together. The sound of some groups of instruments will even sink into the overall sound.
Here are some recommendations for equipment on the system to play this movie soundtrack well.
To play this song well, the audio system is required to have a good setup, including the music source, amplifier, speaker, and optimized room reverberation.
* Music Source: This needs very high detail and dynamics. It is best to use a music server with a DAC R2R for the highest detail.
* Amplifier: It is recommended to use an amplifier with a large power of over 100W, Class A feedback, and zero feedback to have the highest dynamics. SE or PP tube amplifiers with a power of less than 100 watts should not be used to play this song.
* Speakers: Speakers must be balanced throughout the 20Hz–20kHz audio frequency range. The loudspeakers with a lot of bass resonance will not be able to control the bass well in this case. As a result, it will make a lot of noise and may distort the high frequency. With this movie soundtrack, an Open Baffle loudspeaker with a big bass (Speaker without resonance) will be very optimal.
In this demo video, because we did not have GRAND OPEN, the latest ThivanLabs open baffle loudspeaker model, in our studio, an Eros 9 Ultra was combined with a MAVIS M100 tube-hybrid amplifier for this setup. We used specialized measuring equipment for an optimal setup in the full frequency range of 20 Hz–20 kHz to try to reproduce the best sound of this movie soundtrack.
The system used a ThivanLabs Eros-9 Ultra loudspeaker and a MAVIS M100 Tube Mosfet Transformer hybrid tube amp.
The video was filmed and recorded on a smartphone.
