I am enjoying the unique mix on this 1968 Motown classic, listening in 5.1.
The drums are completely isolated to the center channel.
So if your center speaker is home theater dialog, sorry for you.
Fronts contain all the vocals and bass guitar.
Rears are horns & strings wrapping from the front, with a little ambience.
There is LFE content, but at a subliminal level.
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would the drums be lacking on a properly setup system?
i can't imagine there being much of a problem unless one's Centre speaker was puny and the crossover etc and the Sub wasn't properly dialled in?
I agree.
Thanks for expanding & clarifying the point I was awkwardly trying to make, in my "snide" way.
I don't recall another mix with big Motown-type drums isolated solely in the center channel.
So it's perhaps a new challenge and a test of a system's center speaker and bass management capability.
My mid-fi AVR bass management for small speakers seems to be effective only for the front L & R channels.
For vintage quads with bass in the rears, for example, I get seem to get no help from the sub.
Therefore, I'm happy I have full-range speakers on all channels, including center.
To my ear, a lot of the power of the music I'm fond of lives in the low-mid range, from say 100-250 hZ.
When the LFE channel is limited by the range of the subwoofer frequency response, either by the speaker or the roll-off of the high-pass frequency in the design of the AVR, the experimenting I've done with small speakers on my system has been less than satisfying.
(Sometimes my auto-calibration will want to change my center speaker type from large to small.
Based on a low frequency sweep test, I assume. I have to manually change it back to large.)
Interested to hear other's experiences / thoughts using this track and the new Aretha Rock Steady Atmos mix with heavy bass guitar in the center channel as benchmarks?
I am not sure. Just pasted how it was labeled.Is it really TrueHD/Atmos and not DD+/Atmos? I didn't think anyone offered lossless Atmos outside of physical Blu-ray/UHD releases.
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