What you say about the concert hall is right however, in a concert hall the audio is usually in the front of you, that's where the stage is as far as I'm away so that's where the audio usually comes from.
The same applies when listening in stereo, the speakers are usually in front of you for good stereo listening. The old analogue Surround-Sound? I still have my original Denon AVR2000 which supported all the Quad modes for front left-right and rear left-right but for the most part the recordings made were not true surround-sound or quad back then, some sort of DSP was needed to decode the source to generate the effect. We've progressed to the point where each channel - in true Surround-Sound or Quad mode - has its own path to each speaker which was unheard of say 20 years ago. If you look at the more expensive Surround-Sound receivers you may even see direct analogue connections for each channel, the cheaper receivers use the HDMI connection to decode each channel digitally. I have a whole heap of CD'S - SACD, Quad and Video Audio - which make full use of the direct channel paths, the Quad CD'S I did myself, I mastered them from Quad Carts - the old 8 track cartridges, versions of them came out that used a track for each channel in the quad recording -. On 27 May 2014, at 12:21 pm, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote: > I haven't had the ability to listen in surround sound for a long time. > Indeed, most of my experience was with an analog system years ago, made > by ADS. And it was awesome. I also had the Carver sonic holography > unit, which was good, but not as good as the ads, which actually > required two speakers in the rear. The thing is, if you like classical > music, full orchestra etc, there is no way you get anything approaching > a concert hall experience with two stereo speakers, unless there is > some magic happening in the background, ala the Carver holography. I > have been impressed with Polk Audio in the past and also with the Magna > planar speakers, which I really wanted in the worst way. Talk about > 3-dimensional sound! But the listening environment demanded by that set > up is not one that your average guy or gal can manage. That's why I' > m intrigued by sound bars and various digital signal processing > techniques. I want to simulate the concert hall experience in my > living-room. And 2 speakers will never do that. > > Mary > > ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
