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In Reply to: The elephant in the room... posted by Jim Treanor on November 30, 2005 at 13:48:49:
First, we need to remain conscious of the distinction between “hi-rez†and “multichannelâ€. There has been an at least implicit marketing effort to suggest that you can’t have one without the other, and in fact that the “ultimate†realization of hi-rez occurs only via multichannel. But if the playback speaker placement “standard†is effectively a moving target, any deviation of a customer’s playback placement from what was used (or assumed) in the production of a given release is, to the degree of deviation (no pun intended), a departure from the hi-rez paradigm. If sunshining that gap, however minute, between market-promoted expectation and what the customer actually gets at his/her end because he/she set up in accordance with a widely-distributed “standard†is an expression of “sensationalist idealismâ€, then so be it. The audiophiles I know are a pretty demanding, finicky, and placement-with-a-micrometer bunch, and that’s why they got into this hobby, embraced hi-rez—and show up at places like this forum--in the first place. They don’t want a slop-tolerance “almost†that counts only in horseshoes and hand grenades.Second, I’m not sure how much of the indignation aroused by the revelation that ITU placement is “oh so 90’s†arose from the announcement itself and how much from the fact that that “news†somehow got buried for quite some time despite the ongoing high level of posting activity related to multichannel—including placement—on this forum. The revelation, though not intended as such, emerged as a “gotchaâ€, the kind of nasty surprise that (neat phrase, Christine) cheeses people off, especially those who’ve invested a fair amount of cash and not a little time in getting their placement porridge just right. It’s not that inmates here want (let alone in most cases have the technical chops) to micromanage what the professionals are doing. But it helps when you have a group as interested and invested as this to keep it informed timely on major developments. Not a few people here are, effectively, ambassadors of the professionals’ (and their employers’) product.
Finally, in the view of this jaded audiophile, if multichannel hi-rez is to live up credibly to its potential as a _truly_ hi-rez delivery system, it needs a placement standard. The reason's drop-dead simple: complexity, confusion, and uncertainty are the natural enemies of sales.
Jim
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