Although there are two 5.1 mixes of Abbey Road floating around, I understand that the "real" Two of Us Productions mix will be released soon. ... From:...
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krnewman
Mar 5, 2006 9:25 pm
... I've only heard Remain in Light but I'll vouch for that. The mix is better than the original stereo, IMO. ... I thought so, too, but I've seen some catty...
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John Dunkerley
nascarsux02
Mar 5, 2006 7:52 pm
Hey gang, The Talking Heads new DVD-A's are just plain great. Queen's 'A Night At The Opera' sounds great 5.1 DVD-A also. Tommy is good, remixed by Pete...
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krnewman
Mar 5, 2006 4:49 pm
There's a quite a good Zappa _Hot Rats_, and a decent Radiohead _OK Computer_ floating around out there. Also there's a guy who is doing some pretty definitive...
3354
krnewman
Mar 5, 2006 4:46 pm
... When DSotM was first released on CD in the US they accidentally released the quad-encoded version. I remember everybody all disappointed because it sounded...
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RGHWOLF
glenn_halteman
Mar 5, 2006 2:53 am
Does anyone have ELO - First light? I came across it on another Yahoo DTS sight. Anyone know if there was a Q8 version of it. I assume it's SQ. See Below: ...
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Mikkel Breiler
mikkelbreiler
Mar 4, 2006 11:50 pm
... OK, anyone got any SQ recordings on cd they want to swap? I am currently looking for DSOTM. -Mikkel...
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mrheavy_2000
Mar 4, 2006 9:06 pm
Let's talk QUAD for days!!!...
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krnewman
Dec 4, 2005 12:23 am
Which upmixes do you think are good? I certainly agree that it's pointless to do the software-based PLII -> dts upmix. One thing I'm curious about: dts as an...
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Veech
veech@...
Dec 2, 2005 10:31 pm
There are plenty of good up-mixes if you dig around. It all depends on the extraction process used. I can vouch that they are mostly better than plain DL II...
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Dan Olson
quad_dano
Dec 2, 2005 6:01 pm
... I haven't had much interest in upmixes for that reason, I don't see any way you can really make 2 into 4 with good results. It would be interesting if...
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krnewman
Dec 2, 2005 12:39 pm
After considerable research and thought on this subject I've come to the conlusion that allthough upmixes from stereo sources to dts disk can be very pleasant,...
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mrheavy_2000
Nov 3, 2005 5:21 pm
That guy had no idea about stereos let alone Marantz. It wasn't new and only outputs about 8 watts a channel in quad, so it was junk to him. I lucked out as...
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Dan Olson
quad_dano
Nov 3, 2005 4:17 pm
Well, I have a partial list of what I own at: http://www.rdrop.com/~dano/tunes/quad/equipment.html It's out of date but most things are listed. Here are the...
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mrheavy_2000
Nov 3, 2005 4:40 am
What model numbers are the Pioneer, Sansui, Marantz Superscope & Panasonic you mentioned? I have collected many over the last 6 years. The Lafayette S-7210...
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Dan Olson
quad_dano
Nov 2, 2005 4:05 pm
It's hard for me to say, I sometimes have smaller speakers hooked up and am more interested in switch options instead of sound quality, though that's important...
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mrheavy_2000
Nov 2, 2005 12:34 pm
A Marantz, Sansui, Pioneer, Fisher, Lafayette, Heathkit, Kenwood, Sanyo, Toshiba, Onkyo, or any other make. Currently, I'd chose the Lafayette. It has a very...
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krnewman
Nov 2, 2005 12:00 am
OK, this is cool, I can demux from a vob into nice dts data streams split by chapter. This means I can rip from my dvds that have dts content into files...
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krnewman
Oct 25, 2005 3:24 pm
You can do this for free, even, splitting a 6 channel RIFF wave file in the wave_format_extensible format, such as that produced when multichannel recording...
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krnewman
Oct 25, 2005 11:59 am
And of course, what I'd really like to be able to do is extract 5.1 soundtracks from movies and edit them down into something I can listen to. e.g., 5.1 music...
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krnewman
Oct 25, 2005 11:56 am
Well, is there anyone around who has done much hacking in these wave_format_extensible files? I'm sort of guessing that the file is discrete multi-channel with...
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Dan Olson
quad_dano
Oct 24, 2005 9:56 pm
Seems like it should be possible with software, you're just changing from one coding format to another. Then again, I have no idea if such a thing exists or...
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krnewman
Oct 24, 2005 9:18 pm
This may be silly, but bear with me here. Is there any way to take a multi-channel recording which is in wave format extensible, such as that produced by the...
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=JD=
arealgijoe2
Aug 26, 2005 7:17 pm
Dolby bought the rights from Sony on some of the technology developed for SQ, however unlike SQ it was used for a diamond channel config, not nessarily a...
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krnewman
Aug 1, 2005 6:28 pm
Just to add: Older multi-channel: taking the out of phase and either setting up a triangle speaker system with listener sittin facing a left speaker, a right...
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Dan Olson
quad_dano
Aug 1, 2005 4:43 pm
... I think QS is supposed to be a good match, but try both and see what works best. Dolby ProLogic II is good for decoding, but plain old ProLogic has the...
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allaroundsuround@...
allaroundsur...
Aug 1, 2005 4:01 pm
In a message dated 08/01/2005 10:25:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, mrheavy_2000@... writes: Dolby Surround (is that the same as AC-3 or Dolby Digital). No...
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mrheavy_2000
Aug 1, 2005 2:20 pm
Thanks members!!! I couldn't determine if Dolby Surround was 5.1 or a matrixed soundtrack. I've been out of the audio conversion scene for a few years and I...
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krnewman
Aug 1, 2005 12:53 pm
Does anybody know of a listing anywhere pointing to all DVD titles that have Music Score Only audio options? I find these can be particularly enjoyable, though...
3328
krnewman
Aug 1, 2005 12:50 pm
True, the most you can hope for on VHS tapes is Dolby Surround or some other competing "stereo surround" or "srround sound" competitor, but that being said,...
