Here! Here! (Goes back under stone. Now, where's my old Minim and my relatively uncompressed CD's?)
On 29 Oct 2012, at 14:28, "Ronald C.F. Antony" <r...@cubiculum.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
