On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:51 +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 02/25/2010 10:24 PM, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote: > what is your intention? from your initial post, it sounded like you want > to do away with the center, and do 5.1 playback over a square of > speakers? what kind of material do you want to listen to? Jörn, I would like to hear the original recording in such a way that the natural space of the original recording comes through. What i want is that feeling when your walls dissapear sonically and you are suddenly inside the church that the choir was done in, or in the small club that the sax player is playing in ect. Obviously this will only happen with live and well done recordings. >From reading so far, i gather that ambiosonics can accomplish this by retrieving the ambiance that the mics picked up during recording, even on stereo sources. My only experience so far with center speakers has been discrete surround in movies or 5.1 music where, yes the performer in question is in the center, but sounds canned there. They are *placed* in the center, locked in place, and sound rather like a canned voice. Most of the time it seems like i should not be hearing them in the center, but a few inches off (or even feet) off center sometimes as thats where they were standing relative to the mics. The center speaker locks them in place and two stereo speakers do not. So i'm looking for a natural reproduction of acoustics and placement. If center channels in a quality system can do this i'm all for them. I don't expect to have lot of people listening. Probably more like 3, but i'm the audiophile in this family. Bearcat _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
