drmatt wrote: > Yeah, I realise that there's always a cynical view.. :) but at least > it's -something- that provides a baseline of supposed mastering > standard. How well enforced it is is another matter..
It actually works to a degree , but not many goes the whole mile and get "everything thx" including speakers to their ultra standard so it kinds of fall apart. The ultra standard is basically the original thx but not watered down to just a badge. In cinemas it's actually works , basically the demands for matched levels certain acoustics and speaker specs ( polar pattern and directivity ) real do make the local cinema sound very similar to the mixing suit so the producers of the film will know what the audience will hear . But it does some good at home too . The part I would like most for hifi would be records mixed for a defined listening level . Anyone familiar with the loudness curves aka fletcher Munson curves . How they are is sensitive to different frequencies at different levels it makes huge differences in timbre and audibility . The THX part where they spec speaker directivity patterns can be a harder pill to swallow for stereo use it works well for multichannel of all times on almost any movie . But music has been done on some much different equipment over the years so it's maybe impractical and would not be great for all music . But mixing for a certain type of speakers knowing that the consumers sounded similar would work . Cinema sounds uses these to great effect , sounds just at the limit of audibility or close to to loud and in between subtly when you want it or force when you want that . A sad side note there are wonderful sound mixes and bad ( loud all the time ) in cinema to . But movies are allowed to use space and dynamics in the sound , sometimes when watching a DVD with old compressed Dolby AC3 I wonder why does it sound so good ? Then I remeber what music producers do to thier stuff... For home use maybe mix to a more sane level than cinema ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105816 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
