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In Reply to: This is a pleasant suprise... posted by Visterel on November 30, 2005 at 10:44:26:
I'm glad you find it pleasant that supposedly every multichannel mixing engineer has not been following the ITU standard but instead has been following some recommendations that accept placement of surrounds anywhere from 110 degrees to 150 degrees. This makes it *impossible* for anyone's surrounds to be positioned correctly for all recordings, assuming you are not going to reposition your speakers with every recording. Even then it would just be guesswork, since no engineer shows where the surrounds should be placed other than the ITU standard, which we're told is ever so hopelessly outdated."Pleasant" is not the word that comes to my mind when you have a condescending, lazy, and defensive engineer making excuses for never having had his own employer's speaker positioning information updated on their website. Not that it would matter! You'd still be left with a ridiculous situation in which you'd have to reposition your surrounds depending on the recording.
At least it is not as serious as we were first led to believe, that the fronts had been repositioned without anyone being informed.
The "anything goes" surround position just goes to show you that each of these brilliant mixing engineers thinks he knows best, and to hell with the standard that every customer was told was, just that, standard. It's a sad state of affairs and troubling that said engineers would rather get points among their peers for their "growth" and subtle refinements than fulfilling their implied contract with their customers.
So what if someone drops $100,000 on a surround setup that can never have one of the most basic aspects, speaker placement, correct? He needs to get over it and "evolve" along with cutting-edge engineers.
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