its a rip of the CD, have to admit a lot of LF boost is needed for the cannon fire to sound impressive.
If it's well done it doesn't need to. At least not the surround part. There is so much going on in front of you, the rest is inconsequential. Of course it's nice to add a little seasoning to the dish, but if the food is good enough you don't have to spice it up.
Throwing a lot of speakers at it is the easy was to achieve an effect. I have regularly used 9 to 12 channels of playback for theater sound design. Up to 200 channels for 1 special project. Or even 2 channels steered around to 24 playback channels to create a sonic space. All good fun.
But for the playback of >90% of recorded music? Astonishing things can be done with stereo and good acoustics.
What you meant to say is 'unamplified' music, not 'real live'.
Used to work for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. It kinda bores me, I prefer stuff that hasn't been done to death for a century or more but whatever rocks your boat.
It's not just the number of loudspeakers but the source material.
The Atmos article I linked to earlier broke but the key point was not that stereo is "ancient". The key point was engineers can mix one product that works across multiple platforms: headphones, two channel stereo, 64 channel immersive.
The big drive of music Atmos isn't to produce marginally better music. The big drive is to get their music into video games. The Future of Listening thread links to Harman's finding that video games are a powerful gateway drug to music.
If you own a music catalog and you want it to sell you need to make it sound good in video games. Most gamers use headsets. Now the headsets are including head tracking for spatial audio. Not just for an extra bit of enjoyment but because you need spatial cues to win in a game like Call of Duty.
People interested in listening to recorded music ($21 billion/year) will benefit from everything going on in the gaming industry ($180 billion/year).
The Atmos article I linked to earlier broke but the key point was not that stereo is "ancient". The key point was engineers can mix one product that works across multiple platforms: headphones, two channel stereo, 64 channel immersive.
The big drive of music Atmos isn't to produce marginally better music. The big drive is to get their music into video games. The Future of Listening thread links to Harman's finding that video games are a powerful gateway drug to music.
If you own a music catalog and you want it to sell you need to make it sound good in video games. Most gamers use headsets. Now the headsets are including head tracking for spatial audio. Not just for an extra bit of enjoyment but because you need spatial cues to win in a game like Call of Duty.
People interested in listening to recorded music ($21 billion/year) will benefit from everything going on in the gaming industry ($180 billion/year).
Some people. I doubt that it will benefit me, but would be nice if it somehow does.
I prefer music that is older than I am. That's what "rocks my boat."
when it comes to dynamic range, its double edged sword
too much is not good
i have cd which claims to be life recording of berlioz's te deum, in ny catherdral of st john with 400 musicians, delos virtual reality whatever, supposed to have very high dynamic range
when I listen to sting at normal level, and I put this cd at the same level into cd player, I hear almost nothing 95% of the time, then comes very loud music remaining 5% of the time which scares the hell out of me
almost unlistenable cd
too much is not good
i have cd which claims to be life recording of berlioz's te deum, in ny catherdral of st john with 400 musicians, delos virtual reality whatever, supposed to have very high dynamic range
when I listen to sting at normal level, and I put this cd at the same level into cd player, I hear almost nothing 95% of the time, then comes very loud music remaining 5% of the time which scares the hell out of me
almost unlistenable cd
But those who aren't experienced, it's weak and therefore adding more channels is the solution.
You really haven’t identified a single thing from the gaming industry that will benefit people interested in listening to recorded music where the main requirement is for outstanding sound quality
I know that you are poking fun, but there is some practical truth to that. Getting superb audio playback that makes you think "you are there" to an uncanny degree isn't easy. It means large expensive speakers and large rooms. Getting a semblance of that with multiple speakers and channels can usually be cheaper and easier. Not better, but easier. And importantly, in an off the shelf system that most people can afford and have the space for.
If such space is available and WAF isn't in play, he can certainly reroute that fund and effort into better quality speakers and room acoustics. The importance of room acoustics isn't well spread in audiophile community including those who have been pursuing audio for 20 - 30 years. So many I've seen would rather spend more money on DAC, cables, amps and other snake oil products like cable lifters. Yes, they've been gotten by the marketeers.
That may be the biggest reason why they've been gotten. Working on room acoustics is not easy.
If expanding the space horizontally is not an option, you can go below as shown here.
I'm glad to see i'm not the only ( crazy) one out there!
I'm lucky as i found it and my girl accepted we bought it ( i love her): i've got a 40m2 living room with sloped ceiling ( 2,4m to 3,8m ceiling with 30* angle). Real issue is i have to share it with... a 5 and a 1,5 yo little buggers which likes to touch everything which have knobs on it or which rotate and produce sounds...