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Well, The Goldsmith definitely falls in the rears are invisible until proven otherwise category.

"Land of Giants" is fuller and obviously has been mastered to have instruments showing up in a very wide soundstage, i.e. in the first cut the vibraphone is almost directly to the right.

"Triangulo" is more like the Goldsmith, a traditional presentation, I don't hear the rears unless I mute the fronts or turn my head quite a bit, tho they really do make for a immersive soundstage.

These three would only cause me to reinforce what I was saying. They all sound "correct" with no changes in level. I.e. to me they sound like I believe the masterer built them to sound with no fooling around on my part.

If you don't like aggressive mixes you'll be missing a lot of the music if you attempt to transform them into traditional mixes by lowering the volume of your rears. Take Hiromi for example, her stuff has a lot of full range material coming exclusively from the rears.

The only time I'm ever tempted to mess with levels is when the sub (6th SACD channel) is a little too loud for my tastes on some discs.

-Ted


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