A sighted blind testing device
- Thread starter Vincent Kars
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Since you can't see anything but blackness I guess they don't work so well when watching music concert videos (or live concerts for that matter).
But then real audiophiles would never be caught dead in a home theatre, right?
I am sure that many audiophiles enjoying classical music would appreciate the home theatre concept if there existed an adequate supply of good quality recordings. But having an home theatre installation just to listen to a few well recorded performances, some of them of dubious interpretation, when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of excellent quality stereo recordings seems a nonsense for a classic music lover.
Malher 5th twice per week? No, thanks!
I am not sure that even a huge selection of excellent quality recorded performances on Bluray would entice audiophiles into the home theater concept. I have a pretty large collection of MCH recordings, both without video (SACD) and with video (Bluray) and I have two main MCH systems, one with a decent plasma display and the other with no display. Aside from the initial playing of many of the BRDs with video, I am just as likely to play them like SACDs (with the monitor off) or on the other system. Good musical performances can be enjoyed again and again but, with few exceptions, multiple viewings seem repetitive and uninteresting. Still, it is a new paradigm for musical enjoyment at home and, perhaps, we will adapt to seeing the same thing over and over. After all, we have learned to enjoy hearing the same thing over and over.
Kal
I am sure that many audiophiles enjoying classical music would appreciate the home theatre concept if there existed an adequate supply of good quality recordings. But having an home theatre installation just to listen to a few well recorded performances, some of them of dubious interpretation, when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of excellent quality stereo recordings seems a nonsense for a classic music lover.
Malher 5th twice per week? No, thanks!
I don't listen to much classical, but I'd take the same attitude toward jazz. When someone out there starts producing lovingly mastered 5.1 recordings of Waltz For Debby, Tribute To Miles, Duke Ellington at Newport, etc., etc., mixed to put me in the middle of a wonderful (even if imaginary) ambient space and give me the feeling of being in the (a?) room during the performance, I'll start building my system. As long as the very short supply of 5.1 music recordings consists mostly of oddities that put the percussion player over my left shoulder or let the bass bounce around the room, I'll remain a 2-channel snob. In my view, 5.1, for music, is great potential unrealized.
Tim
I understand. Classical listeners are fortunate in that the vast majority of 5.1 releases are recorded with the intent to preserve and transmit natural balance and proper ambience. It's addictive.
I am sure that many audiophiles enjoying classical music would appreciate the home theatre concept if there existed an adequate supply of good quality recordings. But having an home theatre installation just to listen to a few well recorded performances, some of them of dubious interpretation, when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of excellent quality stereo recordings seems a nonsense for a classic music lover.
Malher 5th twice per week? No, thanks!
With the exception of classical recordings (e.g. SACD and downloads) and concerts (e.g. BLU-RAY), I wouldn't hold my breath for a significant increase in availability of multichannel music recordings in jazz and pop, since the industry doesn't seem to think they can maximize profits in these formats.
What's even worse are the lame multichannel 5.1 recordings released on "high-end" labels that are really 4.0 channel, as they have nothing in 2 of the channels (most importantly, nothing in the center channel). Home theatre owners upon hearing these recordings will probably call their dealers to complain that their center channel appears to be dead.
One solution is a good up-mixer that can take the 2-channel or lamely recorded 4-channel music and distribute it among the 7 to 11 channels in the home theatre.
Sean, could I entice you to give us a little preview, so to speak, of the nature of any improvements to Logic 7 ?
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