pablolie wrote: > > "Getting multichannel done "right" can be a bit of a challenge of > course and for practical reasons, will not be for everyone including > soundroom setup, WAF, increased cost, etc... I just wish it was easier > without all these bits and pieces I've had to cobble together! > > well getting stereo right is hard. and some recordings kinda demand you > reposition your speakers just for their sake. just with 2 speakers. can > you say Keith Jarret with his piano centric recording approach? won't > work for almost anything else. but if you use it with the setup that > works for most other things you get a piano that's about 20ft wide. > > i can't even imagine moving around 7 speakers to cater to the whim of > the recording. :-) that's all. there are absolutely no recording > standards, so i think the more speakers, the more impossible it'll be to > get it right. it's bad enough with a large stereo music library. we go > for a compromise.
True, speaker position is an issue... However, I wonder if in the multichannel world, there might actually be a little more standardization. For example the 'ITU-R BS.775-3' (http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.775-3-201208-I!!PDF-E.pdf) specifies recommended angles for both movies and music which I've tried to emulate in my sound system (the 5.1 configuration is of course in line with THX and Dolby recommendations). Also, modern decent receivers almost universally incorporate room-EQ correction easily activated to compensate for loudness and distance differences... Better to have a proper room configuration of course but this will certainly help. Nothing's perfect but I must admit I'm enjoying Bryan Adams -Reckless -5.1 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray audio right now... Good memories of high school, now in a surround high-res mix! (Better BTW that the nasty compressed sounding stereo mix on the same disk - yuck!) Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102992 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
