In Reply to: SACD Multichannel question.... posted by Alex Peychev on August 13, 2005 at 22:54:37:
In the development of SA-CD Surround it was clear that serious recording engineers really wanted to be able to make a seperate surround mix and stereo mix. Even when in some cases the same microphone set up is used, the stereo mix and the surround mix will often have different timings and levels in how the individual microphones are mixed. Down mixing the surround can in some cases seriously degrade the sound in the stereo result. SA-CD provides the possibility to have both the surround mix and the stereo mix on different partitions of the same disk using the same dsd data stream per channel.
The fact that Multichannel sounds great and much better than stereo applies only to playing Multichannel using 5 (or 4 in case of 4 channel recordings) loudspeakers. Apart from the fact that you have an increase in resolution by 2.5, well recorded Multichannel can make use of the acoustical effects in the original acoustic that can never be retained in a stereo recording.
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Follow Ups
- SA-CD SURROUND - Erdo 07:37:28 08/14/05 (25)
- Re: SA-CD SURROUND - cf@tiscali.se 01:50:42 08/15/05 (2)
- Re: SA-CD SURROUND - Erdo 09:42:43 08/16/05 (0)
- My stereo technique has not changed - Michael Bishop 07:15:59 08/16/05 (0)
- Thank you for the explanation..... - Alex Peychev 14:34:06 08/14/05 (5)
- You do not understand stereo - Skeptic 15:28:01 08/14/05 (0)
- Re: Thank you for the explanation..... - Robert C. Lang 15:12:49 08/14/05 (3)
- Re: Thank you for the explanation..... - Robert C. Lang 15:24:49 08/14/05 (0)
- Re: Thank you for the explanation..... - Alex Peychev 15:20:45 08/14/05 (1)
- Re: Thank you for the explanation..... - Christine Tham 17:33:48 08/14/05 (0)
- I second Erdo's comments - Michael Bishop 10:21:56 08/14/05 (14)
- Thank you - Robert C. Lang 10:40:48 08/14/05 (2)
- Re: Thank you - Alex Peychev 14:43:02 08/14/05 (1)
- listen to stereo in STEREO & MC in MULTICHANNEL please - Michael Bishop 06:39:21 08/16/05 (0)
- Re: I second Erdo's comments - Skeptic 10:37:35 08/14/05 (10)
- related question - Tre' 19:35:09 08/14/05 (0)
- Not really..... - Alex Peychev 14:21:18 08/14/05 (8)
- Re: Not really..... - Skeptic 15:30:03 08/14/05 (7)
- "Sin boca cerrado no entran moscos" - Sordidman 08:20:11 08/16/05 (5)
- Re: "Sin boca cerrado no entran moscos" - iza 19:23:11 08/18/05 (0)
- Re: "Sin boca cerrado no entran moscos" - Skeptic 16:42:51 08/16/05 (3)
- Re: "Sin boca cerrado no entran moscos" - tnelson 20:55:02 08/17/05 (0)
- There's one really good way to find out - Sordidman 11:42:05 08/17/05 (0)
- Re: "Sin boca cerrado no entran moscos" - some young guy 17:17:45 08/16/05 (0)
- Re: Not really..... - some young guy 15:45:55 08/14/05 (0)
- Excelent explanation!!;nt - Pacman 08:37:13 08/14/05 (0)