In Reply to: Why is surround sound not "high end"? posted by Raymond Leggs on July 14, 2012 at 21:27:41:
Picture yourself at a live performance, the music comes from in front of you, now sit now in front of your surround system, the music comes from all around you, not very realistic is it. A good quality setup needs to be as close to the live event as possible. Surround just goes against proper setup procedures, thats why it will always sound like more of a parlor trick than a serious attempt at reproducing music.
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Follow Ups
- fine for movies - tmsorosk 05:57:37 07/15/12 (15)
- Wrong. - Kal Rubinson 07:48:14 07/15/12 (13)
- RE: Wrong. - Paully 10:47:54 07/15/12 (12)
- RE: Wrong. - josh358 17:07:03 07/18/12 (3)
- RE: Wrong. - Paully 17:39:27 07/18/12 (2)
- RE: Wrong. - josh358 17:51:36 07/18/12 (1)
- Right - tmsorosk 17:53:11 07/18/12 (0)
- RE: Wrong. - middleground 11:31:55 07/16/12 (0)
- Methinks you misunderstood Kal's comments - willkayakforfood 11:19:18 07/15/12 (6)
- And music from a 2-channel system also has reflected sound; engineers realize this (good ones) and so create. - tinear 16:05:10 07/15/12 (1)
- But it comes at you from the wrong direction! (nt) - Kal Rubinson 17:53:59 07/15/12 (0)
- RE: Methinks you misunderstood Kal's comments - Pally 13:35:16 07/15/12 (0)
- Yup. (NT) - Kal Rubinson 12:58:40 07/15/12 (0)
- Ambisonic encoding / recording may get much closer to correct surround recording. Interesting link, - cfb 12:28:21 07/15/12 (1)
- Perhaps. - Kal Rubinson 13:00:56 07/15/12 (0)
- RE: fine for movies - middleground 06:42:53 07/15/12 (0)