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In Reply to: Re: Circle Surround posted by Hayden on March 20, 2000 at 15:30:59:
Could not agree with you more. I guess that the mixers are afraid that consumers will feel as if they aren't getting their money's worth without the gimmecky effects. 2 questions: 1) is the stereo soundtrack on a DVD always compressed? 2) How did you position your surrounds in order to provide more diffusive sound? Must've been tough..
You hit it on the nose, gimmicks to make people go oooh-ahhh. I've found many systems have the rear levels up
way too high. The sounds blaring out at you from each corner. My surrounds are equidistant from the center of the listening couch,6ft from the sides of the couch and 11 inches behind the back of the
couch. The drivers are Vandy coaxials approx another 11inches above centered listeners ear,used to have them higher,but sounfield was more coherent at this height. They disappear here
and give tremendous air,ambience and side detail(watching a sporting event or concert is like being there). Had to play with delays (DD &DTS) an keep the levels down until the desired effect was reached. I have some jazz concert
dvds that are uncompressed pcm,sound great. As far as I know only some of the music concerts are uncompressed. On
the dvd movies even the Dolby surround track is derived from the data-reduced Dolby Digital mix,thus it is inferior to the Dolby surround from say a laserdisc. What kind of surrounds do you have? A friend of mine has the Infinity Quadropoles, they disappear very nicely and sound
great as long as not overdriven.
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