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the role of the center channel

You wrote: "I also tend to think that 5 channel recordings are better than 4 channel. I think it is one reason of several, no doubt, that LSO Live recordings, for example, are generally mediocre sounding."

The recording site (Barbican) has a lot to do with the poor sound quality. There is no depth to the soundstage at all. This is true on the Chandos 5-channel SACD of Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony, recorded in the same hall.

" I believe the center channel when discretely recorded conveys important additional information into our listening rooms that phantom imaging of the two main front channels cannot. This may be more or less important as a function of ensemble and hall size, however."
I think this can certainly be true--e.g., the 3-channel Mercury and RCA SACD reissues.


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