Life in Surround - Surround Music Review and Discussion YouTube Channel

[MrMarty]

I'm only getting started, folks, doing the best I can while overseas. Better production and reviews are coming in November. Just ramping up now.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the videos. And your favorite surround albums, of course!

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Did You Know (That Some of Your Favorite Albums Might be Mixed in Surround)?

Great stuff! Are you familiar with VOODOO Records? They do a lot of (I am assuming) bootleg issues, many Beatles and Prince which are great. But the George Harrison 'All Things Must Pass' is kind of muddy. 'Sgt. Pepper' is a real trip!

 

[Michael Marshall]

RC can’t predict whether anything will be released on Blu-ray, as standalone, streaming only, etc. He was surprised when I let him know that the 4 new Rush mixes are streaming.
We have discussed the topic between ourselves and agreed to leave it out of the talk, along with current projects, recently finished mixes, etc. Anything that might present problems with NDA.

Fair enough. You don't and can't compromise yourself or your guests when it comes to those issues/questions as you definitely DON'T want to "burn any bridges" as we would all be therefore penalized.

 

[inspclouseau]

RC can’t predict whether anything will be released on Blu-ray, as standalone, streaming only, etc. He was surprised when I let him know that the 4 new Rush mixes are

streaming.
We have discussed the topic between ourselves and agreed to leave it out of the talk, along with current projects, recently finished mixes, etc. Anything that might present problems with NDA.

streaming only? what a shame.
Richard...please include DTS 5.1 MA for so many of US. We do not have the capability to ad what is 'necessary' to our home for atmos... Just love so many of the outstanding DTS 5.1MA recordings over many years. Took years to get to sound right in our front room. Love it! Please go back to adding those 5.1's as well~ Nice job in the interview Mike Kathy and I in the sticks
by the way...streaming is out of the question for us. PHYSICAL MEDIA . Renting music not our thing. Never even thought it would be real. And some city folks still do not understand how some rural areas still have pathetic internet. PLEASE 5.1 TOO on disc!

 

[edisonbaggins]

2024/2025 Looking Back and Ahead at Multichannel Music


Feat. our very own @rtbluray

Shout outs to @ForagingRhino @PaulatSDE @Guitmark @Stephen W Tayler

 

[Michael Marshall]

2024/2025 Looking Back and Ahead at Multichannel Music


Feat. our very own @rtbluray

Shout outs to @ForagingRhino @PaulatSDE @Guitmark @Stephen W Tayler

My favorite QUADIO release for 2024 was Alice Cooper's "Muscle of Love" as it was fantastic sonically and the packaging was as close to the original release from 1974 as you could ever get and highly, HIGHLY recommended!

 

[colsky]

2024/2025 Looking Back and Ahead at Multichannel Music


Feat. our very own @rtbluray

Shout outs to @ForagingRhino @PaulatSDE @Guitmark @Stephen W Tayler

Great summary video and some excellent choices by both of you . A shame that Ryan put forward some new release music surround discs as some of his choices, but Mike didn't!

Like Ryan I only have a 5.1 set up, not Atmos. I have no intention of increasing my number of speakers in the near future, but I have recently changed my amplifier with excellent results (that I didn't really expect). My new amplifier is a Denon that is Atmos capable, whereas my previous one wasn't. Previously when I played Atmos mixes on discs the amp would play them as 5.1 and show TrueHD on the display. Now this new amp shows Atmos on the display. Obviously I'm not playing true Atmos as I haven't added speakers to my set up, but the mixes sound a hell of a lot better. Definitely more spread around the room. I'm currently listening to Tears for Fears The Hurting Atmos mix. Up until now the Atmos mix on that disc sounded horrible on my 5.1 system. The dedicated 5.1 mix is excellent of course. But now, WOW, the Atmos mix is sounding superb, much better than the 5.1 and a million times better than the Atmos mix previously sounded on my system. I don't know what the science is here. This is definitely not a case of subconscious bias, over the past few days I've listened anew to the Atmos mixes of Crimson's Red and Larks Tongues, Who's Next, Gentle Giant's Free Hand and Elton's Diamonds, all with improved results. I think the amp might be doing some sort of "Atmos height virtualisation", but whatever its doing I'm loving it, and I'm going to be enjoying revisiting the various Atmos mixes I already have on discs in the next few weeks !

 

[Bill B]

Reading @colsky ’s comment above, it makes me wonder if, when the discussing how Atmos mixes fold down when you only have a 5.1 speaker system, is the assumption being made that you have an Atmos ready receiver.
More clearly stated, is the fold down process the same for 5.1 AVRs as it is for Atmos AVRs?

 

[somethingcleveridunno]

Reading @colsky ’s comment above, it makes me wonder if, when the discussing how Atmos mixes fold down when you only have a 5.1 speaker system, is the assumption being made that you have an Atmos ready receiver.
More clearly stated, is the fold down process the same for 5.1 AVRs as it is for Atmos AVRs?

Since Atmos is object-based, I have to imagine there's a difference with 5.1 speakers between how the TrueHD bed gets played back on older purely channel-based hardware, and how an Atmos receiver will distribute those objects across 5 speakers and a sub.

 

[colsky]

Reading @colsky ’s comment above, it makes me wonder if, when the discussing how Atmos mixes fold down when you only have a 5.1 speaker system, is the assumption being made that you have an Atmos ready receiver.
More clearly stated, is the fold down process the same for 5.1 AVRs as it is for Atmos AVRs?

I would have thought that the fold down process was the same, as it was folding down to the number of available speakers, but perhaps the Atmos AVR processes it differently.

 

[edisonbaggins]

I would have thought that the fold down process was the same, as it was folding down to the number of available speakers, but perhaps the Atmos AVR processes it differently.

My understanding is that non-Atmos AVRs/processors will access some sort of “core” Dolby Digital 5.1 mix.
Though my understanding of this topic is murky and I’d like to learn more about it.