Hi David, Thanks for listening and writing. All these recordings were made at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in upstate NY and broadcast on NPR's Performance Today about 8-10 years ago.
As for the distortion, frankly I have not listened to the DTS versions that carefully. Last night, I decoded the Brahms using VLC Player and note that the DTS version does sound "coarser" than the original. The masters are 48kHz, so the DTS encoding also includes a sample rate conversion to 44.1 kHz, and I'm not sure about the quality of the SRC in the Surcode DTS encoder. I've uploaded the B-format files from which the DTS files were made, if you'd like to listen to those http://ambisonics.dreamhosters.com/AMB/ The free Harpex player makes that particularly easy (and you can play with different virtual mic arrays). http://harpex.net/ In my humble option, the Stravinsky Pulcinella recording is the best of the lot. It was made with my MkIV (#99) when it still had the original Calrec capsules and alignment. The Beethoven is from the same concert and is the one I listen to the most often. The Dvorak recording was made after an overhaul by Soundfield Research that included a capsule replacement, and the Brahms after further tweaking by Richard Lee and Eric Benjamin. Thanks.... Aaron On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:12 PM, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote: > At 14:01 02/04/2012, Aaron Heller wrote: > >> I put some files at >> >> http://ambisonics.dreamhosters.com/DTS/ > > I downloaded, cut onto CD and listened to the finale of Brahms I, which I > have conducted several times (where was this recorded?). It is the first > time I have heard 4.0 from a CD and for some reason it took me a long time > to establish a volume level. The wide dynamic range is nice. The > instrumental timbres are realistic, and it is terrific to hear the applause > from all around -- something that one unfortunately doesnt get with the DVD > recordings of the Sylvester concert from the Musikverein. The image seemed > stable. The worst aspect was the "distortion" (most noticeable just after > Letter N from 12:10), which I take to be the 16-bit granularity. I will > listen to more of these. > > Thanks! > > David _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
