Schumacher Marlon wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks everybody for your well-considered comments. > The reason for going for a 2-channel format is compatibility with > distribution media formats (CD) - and I suppose it will mostly be listened > to without a decoder. > The possibility of recovering (2D) B-Format can be very useful, I think > (although apparently not 100% possible).
Nimbus Records archived most of their recordings in 2-channel UHJ. This was fine until, many years later, they wanted to release to multi-channel. Unfortunately, converting back from UHJ to B-Format (and then to other formats) cannot be done without loss. If you archive in 3- or 4-channel B-Format then you can *immediately* produce 2-channel UHJ from this. In addition, you could later release to other formats without any loss. You can only gain by archiving in B-Format; there is no downside. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
