markshan
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Huh?I have decided to change my score from a 9 to a NINE.
Huh?I have decided to change my score from a 9 to a NINE.
Which is it?
I bid on an abbey road bluray and just noticed it says eu (for europe) . Does the eu disc play in an oppo in the usa? are there problems with the eu disc? Can someone post a photo of the usa bluray (not the jacket).....
Still a bit generous, I'd say, but agree on the ranking.Listening to all The Beatles surround albums today, I feel I need to revise my votes as follows:
Abbey Road: Perfect fidelity and almost universally excellent surround mixes. 10.
Love: Same as Abbey Road. 10.
White Album: Overly bright sound and about half of the surround mixes are excellent. 9.
Sgt Pepper: Overly bright sound, heavy limiting, and some underwhelming surround mixes. 8.
When I listened real carefully to the 5.1 mix I could swear that there are two separate bass lines on a couple of songs. Either overdubbed bass lines or maybe even different bass guitars playing in sinc.Paul being mixed in one speaker? Hell no. Bass should be centered. Is it just me? Bass in left or right?
As I understand it, Atmos will automatically down-mix to 5.1 on a 5.1 system.I’ve been wondering where to post my ideas about listening to Abbey Road 5.1. Some of the previous posts in this thread convinced me this thread is the best place. I find listening to surround music in DTSMA is fatiguing and the music sounds too bright. Glad to see from previous posts I’m not alone in this regard. I choose the Dolby TrueHD version when both are available. When I first heard Abbey Road in the DTSMA I was a little disappointed since there wasn’t a Dolby TruesHD 5.1 version available. Then something Jon posted about the atmos mix down converting to a 7.1 Dolby TrueHD gave me an idea.
I converted the atmos version to 7.1 Dolby TrueHD. Since my system won’t play 7.1, I summed the rear left channel with the back left channel. Also summed the rear right channel with the back right channel. The volume of the resultant combined channels was quite a bit increased over the volume of the individual rear or back channels separately. Decided to give it a listen to hear how much decrease in volume would be required to make it sound balanced. Low and behold it was perfect at the summed volume. Brought tears to my eyes. Listened to the whole album that way and it sounded great. No more too-bright DTSMA sound. Rear channels in perfect balance with the three front channels.
Just thought I’d share this for anyone who may dislike the sound of Abbey Road in DTSMA. There is a better option available with a little work involved.
On my system (Oppo 203 - Yamaha Aventage 2070)I’ve been wondering where to post my ideas about listening to Abbey Road 5.1. Some of the previous posts in this thread convinced me this thread is the best place. I find listening to surround music in DTSMA is fatiguing and the music sounds too bright. Glad to see from previous posts I’m not alone in this regard. I choose the Dolby TrueHD version when both are available. When I first heard Abbey Road in the DTSMA I was a little disappointed since there wasn’t a Dolby TruesHD 5.1 version available. Then something Jon posted about the atmos mix down converting to a 7.1 Dolby TrueHD gave me an idea.
I converted the atmos version to 7.1 Dolby TrueHD. Since my system won’t play 7.1, I summed the rear left channel with the back left channel. Also summed the rear right channel with the back right channel. The volume of the resultant combined channels was quite a bit increased over the volume of the individual rear or back channels separately. Decided to give it a listen to hear how much decrease in volume would be required to make it sound balanced. Low and behold it was perfect at the summed volume. Brought tears to my eyes. Listened to the whole album that way and it sounded great. No more too-bright DTSMA sound. Rear channels in perfect balance with the three front channels.
Just thought I’d share this for anyone who may dislike the sound of Abbey Road in DTSMA. There is a better option available with a little work involved.
Yes. As I understand it, Atmos only goes up to 48k.On my system (Oppo 203 - Yamaha Aventage 2070)
DTS-HD - 96k sampling
Dolby Atmos or DTHD - 48k sampling
Is this normal?
I also down mixed the 7.1 to 5.1 something like georgeshannon did above and didn't really notice much difference from the auto down-mix; on my system anyway (but then I'm an old Mutt and various aural nuances may waft right past me - )As I understand it, Atmos will automatically down-mix to 5.1 on a 5.1 system.
My vote of "10" plus much more is examined in the latest Life in Surround video!
It is by far the most dynamic version I have heard, but of course they were working on state of the art new equipment too. Giles Martin really has great taste in the choice of outtakes to add on these sets. It shows that there is a learning curve to mix in 5.1 surround and I love how he respects his father's original mixes. To bad George isn't still around to suggest what he might have done.
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