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In Reply to: RE: Yes - the 5.0 format album seems to play OK posted by Chris from Lafayette on May 11, 2020 at 08:03:40
1. I do not think that anything is wrong at your end or with Qobuz/Roon. I had not previously listened to any of the 4 items you list except for the Wayenberg/Liszt and I began by confirming that was OK.2. I checked the other three and, at first, I thought that your description was correct but I do not think so now. If I held my ear to my center speaker with each one of them, I can heard than the channel is not mute/empty but, rather, very low in level and conveying only ambience rather than instrument sound. I have come across this before in some SACDs where the all the instrumental sound is on the two "stereo" channels and there is only ambiance on the center and surrounds.
3. I checked this out with some of the other 5.1 albums on Qobuz/Roon and they either played with full frontal (L/C/R) sound or they had only "ghostly" ambiance from the center.
4. FWIW, if there was a channel missing, the order would be shifted up, not down. A missing center feed would put LFE in the center speaker. A missing LFE would put Ls in the sub.
Let me know if you can hear this. Are you really getting a center signal in the sub or are you just getting the LFE signal?
Edits: 05/11/20Follow Ups:
This is on the basis of one album (the CPE Bach Cello Concertos - I'm sure the other two will be the same): I resorted to the simple expedient of turning off all the other amplifiers except for the center one, and, sure enough, there WAS a signal in the center channel. (Yeay!)
However (there's always a however!), what I hear is unlike any other center channel signal I've ever heard before on a MCh recording: it sounds as if everything is way off mike (or, indeed, as if it's some kind of ambiance signal, more suitable for a surround channel). It still doesn't sound right to me.
Interesting, no?
Looks like it's time for another listen! ;-)
Of course, it's not what you expected but, as I say, I have come across a few SACDs just like that. See link for an example of one of my favorite SACDs. There's nothing in that "center" channel but for some ambiance.
: )
I love this CD but, especially, the last track, "Mozart The Gypsy & Mozart Sîrba," a rip-roaring take on Mozart's Violin Concerto in A major K219.
It's possible that I had the overall volume at too low a level. However, I could swear that what's coming out of the subwoofer extends too high in frequency to be an actual subwoofer signal (again, kind of like what I heard on that one Chandos download which turned out to be an actual mistake on their part), although OTOH the frequencies do seem to go down quite low too. In any case, I'll do some more experimentation. Thanks again for your help - I really appreciate your efforts and ability to replicate what I was hearing.
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