ralphpnj wrote: > Funny no one has mentioned the 5000 pound elephant in the room, namely > since there are so few (what a couple of hundred at best) native > surround sound recordings (sure there are lots of surround sound concert > recordings but these always leave me confused since the sound field > remains fixed but the damn camera angles keep changing so there is no > continuity between the video image and the sound field, e.g. singer in > center channel but off to one side on the video) most of the recordings > are simply stereo recordings digitally processed for a surround sound > effect. Kind of like the old mono recording processed for stereo. > > That and the complete lack of playback and recording standards for > surround sound, whether audio only or video, and the whole thing is a > mess. Plus how does one do surround sound on a smart phone or tablet, > which are fast becoming the main ways that most people listen to music > or watch video. Maybe no one is mentioning it because it is simply incorrect. There are hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of music SACDs, DVD-As, music & video blu-rays & DVDs, etc that have discrete 5 channel, 4 channel & 3 channel mixes from multitrack recordings (stereo "recordings" per se have been largely extinct for over 50 years). In fact, only a very small number are stereo processed for multichannel (like the old reprocessed mono for stereo). That one doesn't like them or finds them disconcerting is no different that what can be said for a great number of stereo mixes - like, for example those that have drums spread across the entire soundfield so it sounds like the drummer has 10 foot arms.
As for standards, what are the standards for stereo? The lack of standards for dynamic range compression alone render any discussion of stereo standards moot, IMO. Yes, much like you can't do stereo on anything with one speaker, you can't do multi-channel (or rather, it's pretty pointless to do so) on a smart phone or tablet - or anything with just two speakers. But you can certainly control a home surround system from a phone or tablet with no less difficulty than a home stereo system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64116 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102992 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
