The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
DEMO 6.0 · BUBBLE 5.4 · BOOM 6.6 (with BEQ 8.9). Bass measured on the disc, Atmos. Directed by Peter Jackson. Adventure, Action, Fantasy.

5.4BUBBLE
6.6BOOM
BEQ 8.9
H1.4
S3.5
C10.0
bed
height
Front
41%
L86%
40%
R84%
100%
C99%
LFE
16%
LFE42%
Surround
19%
Ls70%
20%
Rs69%
8%
Lrs42%
8%
Rrs41%
Wide
2%
Lw6%
2%
Rw5%
Height
3%
Ltf6%
3%
Rtf6%
3%
Ltm10%
3%
Rtm10%
1%
Ltr4%
2%
Rtr5%
Bar and top figure — level against the film’s most active channel. Bottom figure — share of the runtime the channel carries signal.
- DEMO
- 6.0 / 10
- Bubble
- 5.4 / 10
- Boom, as released
- 6.6 / 10
- Boom with BEQ
- 8.9 / 10
- Measured release
- Disc · Atmos · Extended · chart by aron7awol
- Also in the catalogue
- Disc · DTS-HD MA 7.1 — not measured here
- Deep bass peak, 10–30 Hz
- -25.0 dBFS · with BEQ -18.1
- Depth, 10–20 vs 30–60 Hz
- -6.2 dB · with BEQ +4.1
- Average level, 10–30 Hz
- -51.8 dBFS · with BEQ -44.9
- Minutes of deep bass
- 38 min · with BEQ 59 min at ≥ −30 dBFS
- Filtered release
- its BEQ restores up to 15.1 dB at 10–20 Hz
- Tomatometer
- 74% · as of 15 Jan 2026
- Metascore
- 66 / 100 · as of 15 Jan 2026
- Chart scale read
- -10 to -70.3 dBFS
- Height uptime
- 4.1%
- LFE uptime
- 25.1% (shown, not scored)
- Dynamic range
- 23.8 dB
- Channels used
- 16 of 16
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Fantasy
- Tags
- action, adventure, fantasy
- Audio
- Atmos, DTS-HD MA 7.1
- Released
- 11 Dec 2013
- First listed
- 4 Dec 2018
- Sources
- PerceptualPro + BEQ
- Render
- older, corrected
Channel by channel, through the film
One lane per speaker, the whole film from left to right. Bar height is how loud that speaker gets (square-root scale against this film's loudest moment, so quiet passages stay visible). The amber line under a lane marks the moments counted as playing, and the figure on the right is their share of the film. For the six height speakers that share is part of BUBBLE.
Front
L
86%
R
84%
C
99%
LFE
LFE
42%
Surround
Ls
70%
Rs
69%
Lrs
42%
Rrs
41%
Wide
Lw
5.5%
Rw
5.2%
Height
Ltf
5.6%
Rtf
6.1%
Ltm
10%
Rtm
9.9%
Ltr
4.1%
Rtr
4.8%
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Read from PerceptualPro's channel-activity graph, pixel by pixel. A lane marked unused never rises out of its line.