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In Reply to: Multichannel has the best potential to realize "envelopment" posted by Feanor on October 26, 2016 at 09:06:53:
Posted by TAS reviewer Andrew Quint on another forum, about hearing a recording he was familiar with, made in a hall he was familiar with, played through a set of my "Two Streams Paradigm" speakers:"With the right audio gear, it [the recording Andrew had just played] successfully renders the essence of (IMO) one of the greatest 3 or 4 concert halls on earth, the Concertgebouw (thus the orchestra's name) in Amsterdam. I've heard music there, and there's truly a sense of sound being present in the air around you.
"The multichannel program on the RCO Live SACDs (there are dozens) get this aspect right; so did the Bienville Suite, nearly to the same degree, despite the presence of only two channels. My concern when Duke told me about the rear-firing drivers was that this would impart some generic, Bose-like spaciousness to the recording, but that wasn't the case—what I heard was the unique acoustic signature of the Concertgebouw."
So my speakers delivered the sense of being in the Conctrtgebouw "nearly to the same degree" as a multichannel system. So not quite as well, but not too far off either.
I suspect that the typical multichannel geometry that has you sitting almost in the nearfield of the surround speakers is sub-optimal, which is probably one reason why having a whole bunch of surround speakers sounds more natural than just having two, even if you aren't actually sending different signals to each surround speaker.
Me being a dealer makes you leery?? It gets worse... I'm a manufacturer too.
Edits: 10/26/16 10/26/16
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