On 28 Oct 2012, at 22:34, Stefan Schreiber <st...@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>> When Ambi VLC happens, I predict the re-surrection of UHJ. Simple 2 >> channels will remain the most important distribution format in the forseable >> future. > > This is real surround sound? Why not Dolby Surround... :-D Despite a lot of stupid badmouthing, UHJ works, Dolby Surround does not; and things like SACD, DVD-Audio etc. have been sunk effectively by the cost of playback systems and the greed of the record industry which was unable to read the signs of the times (more things competing for the same little bit of disposable income) and thus insisted on premium pricing rather than at price levels that would have pitched the new formats as CD replacements. As I said countless times before it's about REALISTIC AMBIENCE, I'm not trying to train my sniper rifle on any musician while listening to music, so I could care less if the localization isn't as accurate as some full B-format or HOA recording as compared to the real layout of the people. I wasn't at the concert, and 99.99% of listeners weren't there either, and nobody knows or cares if the first violin was indeed 2 feet to the left of where we think it is. What realistic people care about, that there's a distribution channel for stereo, and that UHJ is stereo compatible, meaning that the audience is bigger, and the few people who are interested in surround sound actually have a chance of getting a reasonably sized catalog of stereo recordings that are also surround compatible; and for the foreseeable future, that's as good as it's going to get, because the music industry doesn't produce music for less than 1% of the market. So you get some stereo compatible music, or you get nothing. Frankly, who cares about the 3 dozen high-end surround recordings being made? For the most part they are esoteric pieces, and rarely do they have the type of world-class musicians that major labels attract, and even if they did, I don't care to listen to the same 50 recordings over and over again. Surround sound will not progress as long as the people involved refuse to be part of a process that on the commercial side takes baby steps, and instead insist on "certain minimal standards" that constitute too big of a leap of ever being considered by commercial interests, both in the music industry and in consumer electronics. Ronald _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
