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In Reply to: Dolby Digital 5.1 vs plain ole Stereo? posted by AbeCollins on March 20, 2003 at 22:48:04:
My preference has always been for stereo over multi-channel audio. I honestly think that it is from years of only listening to stereo CDs...For you the difference may be an imbalance of your amplifiers. I mean that in design theory and not a physical problem with any of them. From looking at your earlier post you are using a C-J tube amp for your mains and the Denon Amps for the rest. Most of the advice that I have been given about home theater centers around two things.. Use the same brand/model range of speakers and drive them with the same/similar power.
I think that Denon makes great HT gear, but the C-J amp you are using is in another class sonically. Maybe for multi-channel audio they are just not blending together sonically?
Just my $0.02...
Charlie
Follow Ups:
For regular movie watching (other than concert videos that are primarily music), 5.1 Dolby Digital or DTS sound great. You might be right about the sonic differences between my main amp and Denon but I'm wondering if others have noticed this too while using completely indentical amplification for all channels along with matched speakers. I'm not saying that 5.1 sounds bad, just that 2-channel stereo sounds better to me for concert videos. I was expecting to be "blown away" by 5.1 but maybe I was expecting too much.
Brubacca is right, Before my system was well matched, I also preferred stereo for most music...Having said that, PCM tracks are usually better than 5.1 tracks, but still, I use DPLII for everything, even CDs...
Antonio Melo Ribeiro
As the owner of a large collection of music DVDs, one thing they all have in common is minimal use of the surround speakers. For the most part they are used for ambience purposes only, e.g., crowd noise, some echo and occasional panning of a guitar riff, etc. When listening to music DVDs, I prefer to listen in 2 channel as well. To some extent minimal use of the surround channels is a well-thought artistic decision. Quite frankly, many of the multichannel mixing efforts I have heard have been rather lackluster (that doesn't mean good multichannel recordings aren't out there....it means they generally aren't available from the artists I prefer to listen to). I might be in the minority on this one, but I haven't been all that impressed with any DTS recordings either.
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