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Re: Bass management case study . . .


I'm sure multi-channel recordings like the Steely Dan “Everything Must Go” do exist and that's unfortunate. It's recordings like that that give multi-channel a "bad name". In those cases a listener without a .1 effects channel will most certainly opt for the two-channel layer. That same listener is most apt to post in a forum like this saying "music on my system sounds better in two-channel than in multi-channel”. Because in a case, where there is, in essence, "bass restriction" in all channels but the optional .1 channel the two channel version *will* sound better, and in the case of the Steely Dan recording, much better than the multi-channel layer. That should never be.

To be sure, I have on occasion, with popular and jazz (not classical) preferred some tracks (rarely the entire disc) in two channel over multi-channel, but never for the reason of multi-channel bass restriction experienced with Steely Dan's, "Everything Must Go". I will be on the look out for that.


Robert C. Lang


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