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Music In 5.1
rollo:
For me its not ready yet. Has anyone heard a multichannel system do justice to the music? For movies great for music, Ehhhh! Convince me.
rollo
Bigfish8:
Rollo:
I agree with you. Movie playback in 5.1 sounds great but with movies the show is about what you see. Surround sound definitely adds to the show but with music the sound is the total experience. Therefore, I think we are much more critical of what we hear when there is nothing to stimilate the vison senses. As critical as I have become with what I hear from two speakers I dread to think what it would be like trying to balance a 5.1 system for music.
Ken
rollo:
Bigfish,
The brain cannot focus on the video and sound at the same time. Lucky for home theater fans. Cut off the video and the sound is good at best. Turn the video back on and the sound can be very good. For movies even a run of the mill Sony 5.1 for $250 will sound good. Thats my take.
rollo
richidoo:
--- Quote from: Bigfish8 on October 26, 2007, 04:54:50 PM ---Therefore, I think we are much more critical of what we hear when there is nothing to stimilate the vison senses. Ken
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You may have stumbled upon the best high end tweak of all, Ken. Distraction! Maybe simple DVDs of nature scenes, tours of cities, or just screen saver type random images, anything to prevent focusing on the sound of cables. haha Of course the DVDs don't need a soundtrack, and a TV screen is cheaper than the 3rd upgrade amp anyway.
I do have some nice surround SACDs that I would like to hear in surround someday. Everyone that hears it says it is much better than stereo, when done properly.
Rich
ill@ease:
--- Quote from: rollo on October 26, 2007, 08:58:23 AM ---Has anyone heard a multichannel system do justice to the music?
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Yes. Like any other system that does justice to music, one has to work at it. In my estimation, most audio salons are not that good at explaining it, demonstrating it, selling it, or tolerating it. On more than one occasion I have been waved off by a very high end audio boutique that didn't seem interested in this whole new-fangled "5.1 stereo" (or those exotic "HDMI" cables for a TV they sold me that they didn't happen to carry and therefore weren't worth a flip).
That's okay, I went home and figured it out for myself (which took some time), but when it finally worked and I was able to spend time dialing it in, it was heavenly. And so began the search for well-mixed 5.1 channel SACDs and DVD-As, which is a whole new adventure in its own right.
It can be done, it just takes work. :-({|=
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