Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Robert, On 25.04.2012, at 03:44, Robert Greene wrote: > Moreover, if we had compressed one very brief thing(and unless you are meter > reading you may not know which thing it is--it does not sound as loud as it > actually is), we could have pulled the overall level up 6 dB. That one moment

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Fons, On 24.04.2012, at 22:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > More than 96 dB dynamic range ? I've done some 20th and 21st > century music recordings that had 60 dB or so of dynamic range, > but that's about the widest I've ever seen. For any practical > use you have to reduce that anyway. > > For

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Stefan, On 24.04.2012, at 20:54, Stefan Schreiber wrote: > It is a pity that the so-called music industry (not that I belong to that…) > didn't and doesn't care, (…caring a lot about surround) > but in the end probably there has to happen something. Because the question > might be asked wh

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 46, Issue 7

2012-05-25 Thread Augustine Leudar
I have not at the moment a link to a 8 channel power amplifier to use for > 2 rings of 4 speakers, > But a horisontal 6 speaker array or other commeon speaker configurations > can easily be powered via hometheater surround amplifiers. > > OR

[Sursound] multichannel audio over HDMI

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Heller
Since Bo-Erik mentioned it, I've been wondering about multichannel computer audio over HDMI to a home theater amp. Does anyone know if ALSA on Linux or Core Audio on MacOS support this? In other words, if I'm running Linux on a motherboard with HDMI output, do the eight channels of audio show up

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Robert Greene
I perhaps would have myself, but Kavi is a true purist. What you get is what was there. No slippery slope of the "no one will notice" kind there are all. Just what was recorded. Robert On Fri, 25 May 2012, Andrew Levine wrote: Hi Robert, On 25.04.2012, at 03:44, Robert Greene wrote: Moreov