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Originally posted by kempfand
Just keen: What speakers do you use for listening the DTS-coded end product ? Did you take a DTS CD and listened in a store over different speakers. Doesn't have to be $$$ ones, but outcome for Ambisonics can be very different. Most speakers these days are designed to sound good with Dolby stuff ...
Regards,
Andreas
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My speaker system sounds quite good. It's a combination Infinity/Polk Audio system. While it's not state-of-the-art, it provides a nice balanced sound with crisp, transparent highs, a smooth midrange and tight, solid bottom end. My PC speaker system is also nicely balanced for music without the overwhelming super subwoofer sound that's so prevalent for gaming fans.
Your point is valid but only somewhat. After all, if my system were skewing my impressions of the different bidule results, it would do likewise to my impressions of movie soundtracks, DVD-As, etc. I don't get what you and a couple of others mean when you talk about the "Dolby stuff." Do you mean movie sound effects? If so, then that's not at all what I'm aiming for. I want something like Kevin Shirley's wondeful mix on the Led Zeppelin DVD last year. He mixed the surround to sound as if the listener were sitting about five rows back from the front center of a Led Zeppelin show. The rears mainly provide the ambience of the hall and the audience and serve to reinforce the front, which is presented as an accurate soundstage of the band from the vantage point I just mentioned. If this were done with the Ambisonics bidule as I've heard them so far, the entire band would be cramped into a thick middle that's repeated in the rears. It would sound something like the old Motown remasters that have been released in mono. They might sound punchier than a stereo mix, but only 1 speaker is necessary for such reproduction and 4.1 speakers are being completely wasted on such material.
I'll retry some Ambiophonics testing this evening to see if the results are better, but certainly Ambisonics by itself seems to be an utter disappointment.
Ursa