Real surround sound with 5 speakers around your head with 5 tracks of
audio let's say all assigned to each one like Dain pointed out is
epic! The sound bar stuff or the exagurated stereo these things do and
even things like my companion 5 speakers or the Bose 3 speaker systems
do ain't that cool.
It's
interesting sure, it's cool how the sounds really spread out sure, but
nothing beats a real 5.1 or 77.1 system around your head. Dolby Atmos
would be even more epic!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 11:06 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: listen to music in surround sound
I must confess that I've never to this day heard surround-sound; in
some ways, I'd like to hear what it sounds like; aw but then I'd
probably want it and it's just not practical in this house! It might
be that someday I'll investigate getting a sound bar for the TV in the
living room; that should help some as it's _got_ to sound better than
the sound I get from the TV now; not that it's absolutely terrible or
anything like that; my major complaint is that the sound tends to make
the television vibrate; that's annoying!
Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 10:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: listen to music in surround sound
Even so, music for the most part is not recorded to take advantage of
the concert hall effect, even on our classical stations here its just
recorded in plain old fashioned stereo and I ought to know <smile>.
On 27 May 2014, at 12:38 pm, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote:
Yes, of course, the audio source is on the stage, which is in front
of you. But your living-room does not come close to approximating the
dimensions of even a small concert hall. So that's where the dsp and
magic of multiple speakers comes in. I don't pretend to know how they
do it. But I know that even my old ADS analog time delay system did
wonderous things for lps of classical music. It came a lot closer to
the concert hall experience than just a two-channel set up in my
living-room.
Mary
On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:30:11 +1000, Dane Trethowan wrote:
What you say about the concert hall is right however, in a concert
hall
the audio is usually in the front of you, that's where the stage is as
far as I'm away so that's where the audio usually comes from.
The same applies when listening in stereo, the speakers are usually
in
front of you for good stereo listening.
The old analogue Surround-Sound? I still have my original Denon
AVR2000
which supported all the Quad modes for front left-right and rear
left-right but for the most part the recordings made were not true
surround-sound or quad back then, some sort of DSP was needed to
decode the source to generate the effect.
We've progressed to the point where each channel - in true
Surround-Sound
or Quad mode - has its own path to each speaker which was unheard of
say
20
years ago.
If you look at the more expensive Surround-Sound receivers you may
even
see direct analogue connections for each channel, the cheaper
receivers use the HDMI connection to decode each channel digitally.
I have a whole heap of CD'S - SACD, Quad and Video Audio - which
make
full use of the direct channel paths, the Quad CD'S I did myself, I
mastered them from Quad Carts - the old 8 track cartridges, versions
of them came out that used a track for each channel in the quad
recording -.
On 27 May 2014, at 12:21 pm, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote:
I haven't had the ability to listen in surround sound for a long time.
Indeed, most of my experience was with an analog system years ago,
made by ADS. And it was awesome. I also had the Carver sonic
holography unit, which was good, but not as good as the ads, which
actually required two speakers in the rear. The thing is, if you
like classical music, full orchestra etc, there is no way you get
anything approaching a concert hall experience with two stereo
speakers, unless there is some magic happening in the background,
ala the Carver holography. I have been impressed with Polk Audio in
the past and also with the Magna planar speakers, which I really
wanted in the worst way. Talk about 3-dimensional sound! But the
listening environment demanded by that set up is not one that your
average guy or gal can manage. That's why I'
m intrigued by sound bars and various digital signal processing
techniques. I want to simulate the concert hall experience in my
living-room. And 2 speakers will never do that.
Mary
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