This is my first post on this forum after being a lurker for over 3 years and its nice to see that all who post here are friendly and very well educated in the field of film and sound.

Now on to the topic of this post! I know you dont have to have a SA10(EX)adapter for (EX) decoding. I have read from older posts that Dolby CP200's have been used to achieve it but has anybody ever used a Ultra Stereo film processor to achieve it? Prefferably the JSX1000-S.

It's also not just a matter of getting the processing done, but also you will probably need at least one more amplifier and if your surround cabling was not "home run" during the installation, you're looking at a lot of wiring in the auditorium. If the wiring was home run, then the surround speaker wiring can be "rewired" so to say in the booth.

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I have no idea if and when they will close the Cache 8. Its got to be making money or mabe its a contract deal. Wallace bailed out of the Penn square location because of rent the mall was charging. 60,000 a month from what i was hearing and the theater wasnt really making any money. They sent their GM to my theater to be a salary assintant.Wallace inst in the Game for quality presentation. They are cutting hours even in the busy summer hours. Even our tech company has been cut back because of wallaces cutbacks. He comes in 3 times a year now so when somehting happens we haft to wing it unless its an emergency. We have 3 stereo sound systems with major sound distortions and one has been bad since march and we are selling tickets to movies in this auditoruim. Even our theater cleaning crew has been cut back and we can only get our carpets clean 3 times a year. Right know our carpet is in bad shape.Wallace is making a gold mine off my theater and wont put some of it back in the theater.

The Cache 8 theater in Lawton is around 20 years old. It was originally run by Litchfield and then was sold to United Artists. UA dumped the property off to Hollywood Theaters when they pulled out of Oklahoma a few years ago. Hollywood got bought out by Wallace. The theater auditoriums have walls so thin you can hear a normal mono or stereo optical show leaking through. There's no way this theater could be upgraded to the standards the Carmike 8 has down the street with DTS on every screen. The old theater just was not built with digital sound in mind.

I had heard rumors the Cache 8 has lost near $200,000 over roughly the past year from not being able to compete with the new Central Mall 12 theater in downtown Lawton. On top of that, the Cache 8 and Carmike 8 are stuck in an allocation process where a film distributor has to place one of their films at the Cache 8 and their next at the Carmike and so on and so forth.

The Carmike 8 isn't getting half the films it could be getting, but is still able to hold its own since it is by far the best theater in the area. If the Cache 8 were to shut down, the Carmike theater would get far better bookings and be doing much much better financially.

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Don Sneed,

Do you know a tech by the name of Don Bradshaw formerly of "LJ technologies".

The JSX-1000 is the THX approved version of the JS-200 series and does not have dip switches on the backplane to set the unit up for "a 2 channel only sound mode". THX made USL remove the dip switches so it may only be played with 3 stage channels, surrounds and subwoofer.

So much for Ultra Stereo!