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In Reply to: Multichannel SACD posted by kvakonsult on March 11, 2007 at 00:41:25:
...a semi-retired bachelor with a great multichannel system (designed for music, not movies) in a room that allows me to approximate the ITU spacing for multichannel. In any case, I much prefer multichannel....when listening to jazz, for example, I always feel a little discontent when playing "shuffle" and a two-channel disk comes in...even more so when a two-channel CD comes in. Even when I am reading and using the music as background, I am aware of it.That said, in the past, the two times I had dedicated listening room I was able to set the room up (using homemade room treatment) to use the first response echos and later echos to create a "holographic" image that gave great satisfaction. That same satisfaction and more is provided by multichannel, and frankly room acoustics and furntirue placement viz-a-viz the speakers are not nearly so critical, since the spatial cues are provided largely on the recording, rather than having to be created by room integration. Another feature of multichannel, rarely mentioned, is that if done with five full range speakers, bass performance is greatly enhanced. Not only is there a 3+db gain in the deeper bass, but the bass standing waves in the room are smoothed to a considerable degree, since speaker placement is taken out of the situation leaving only inherent room nodes. The result on both pop and symphonic music is a deep, powerful bass hard to obtain with the same speakers (Thiel 2 2s, 3.5's in my case) in stereo mode.
Harry
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- Guess I'm a lucky one... - theaudiohiffle 11:45:42 03/11/07 (2)
- Yes, more bass, more weight, less distortion, more transparency, more dynamic range and more - Robert C. Lang 15:32:21 03/11/07 (1)
- Thanks, Robert.....I think the main thing is that I care about - theaudiohiffle 19:11:48 03/11/07 (0)
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