Re: You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you. - Craig Wilson

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Re: You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you.

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Posted by Craig Wilson on July 19, 2004 at 15:00:50

In Reply to: Re: You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you. posted by Neil Wilkes on July 19, 2004 at 09:54:54:

I know that it's not required to have information in the .1 channel, and I know that some people are even using it as a "height" channel, weirdly enough. But when there's a disk with full multichannel sound, you usually see it proudly promoted as a "5.1 mix". It sounds like you would prefer a "5.0 mix". (There are also quite a few 4.0 mixes, which I'm not happy about either.) I agree that it's messy and ridiculous that there isn't a standard that's adhered to. But because most audiophiles - though not all - have subwoofers, it makes a lot of sense to make the .1 channel a subwoofer channel. For people whose speakers other than the subwoofer don't handle the lowest bass, a 5.0 mix would cost them some bass, unless they have true bass management, which is far from universal. (And a 5.1 disk with a subwoofer .1 channel would cost a system without a subwoofer some bass in the absence of true bass management.) So I think using the .1 channel as a subwoofer channel is becoming a de facto standard.

Craig

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mabey you don't need to compromise. - mark111 13:44:42 07/19/04 (2)

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Re: Maybe, I have Reynaud Evolution 3's and they - Neil Wilkes 07:04:22 07/19/04 (7)

You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you. - Craig Wilson 09:47:58 07/19/04 (6)

Re: You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you. - Neil Wilkes 09:54:54 07/19/04 (5)

Re: You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you. - Craig Wilson 15:00:50 07/19/04 (0)

I agree, but not everybody follows these guidelines - Dave Kingsland 12:28:18 07/19/04 (2)

Re: I agree, but not everybody follows these guidelines - Neil Wilkes 12:53:52 07/19/04 (1)

Does LFE mean "subwoofer"? - Duilawyer 19:03:19 07/19/04 (0)

Neil, in practice I can't agree. - Jim Pearce 10:57:16 07/19/04 (0)

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Re: You'll lose some bass but maybe not a big deal for you. - Craig Wilson 15:00:50 07/19/04 (0)

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