From a technical standpoint if you record audio and it clips during recording then the audio will clip for everyone no matter what system they play it on.

Given that others haven't complained specifically about clipping, perhaps it's your EQ settings? All audio these days is EQed so that it sounds just right if you leave all the EQ settings on your equipment to zero. Any change on your side (or in a cinema) is essentially contradicting the original audio engineer's settings.

Might be worth checking your settings and zeroing them to see how that sounds. If that then sounds flat then you might want to experiment with alternative speaker placement.

Another excellent review from Cas Harlow at AV Forums
 

Inferno Blu-ray Review - AVForums.com

Another outstanding Arrow release as far as I am concerned!


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How can I change the title please it was Chris McEneany who reviewed it!!

Thanks for the advice. All my EQ settings are set to zero already and because of the shape of the room the system is in, the speaker placement is pretty non negotiable I'm afraid:(

Realistically, the problem more than likely lies with the system itself, as I've noticed similar audio clipping while watching other BRs - usually during loud, bassy sections. In other words, it's just crap. I do agree with an earlier post that the 2.0 channels always sound superior for older films because that's the way they were originally recorded though.

And to sign off, the picture quality for ''Inferno'' is bloody excellent. Overall, this release is well worth the purchase:woot:

I think in essence this is the thing - I love to try out the 5.1 mixes on old films but unless you go wild and take it all apart and re-build it - the sound of old just can't quite cope. I've been pretty impressed with the power of the Inferno effort - it has some guts to it but I suspect this was always a weirdly mixed film because the music score has always been wildly over-powering (in my opinion anyway) but then that's one of the charms of the film and keys it in nicely with Suspiria.

Absolutely.

In retrospect, my original post is mightily unfair because when you get down to brass tacks, this release is the best ''Inferno'' has ever looked or sounded.

I'm really looking forward to ''Deep Red'' next month:dance:

Can someone please Upload all the Arrow Video release info to DVD Compare site.

I have to tip my hat to that comment - it's contributions like that help make this a good forum to share opinions. :nod:

The froum is locked at the moment while they go through their backlog of old comaprisons.

:)

Just received my copy of ''Inferno'' from Blue Underground and I can now confirm that the sound on Arrow's release is simply shite :)