PS Audio - Surround Sound not more popular with Audiophiles?

[kfbkfb]

Also...many TV shows produced since the late 1980s have Dolby Surround encoded soundtracks (probably motivated by the more widespread adoption of stereo sound for TV around that time).

I use my Dolby Pro-Logic (1) decoder often since I videotape many of these shows from the DTV subchannels such as Comet TV and lately I videotape some shows from Hulu [time shifting Stargate Atlantis now] (all offer stereo sound which is good enough to work for Dolby Surround decoding).


Kirk Bayne

 

[par4ken]

There is a small handful of us on the forum that own a Smyth Realiser A16. All I can say is, don’t dismiss Dolby Atmos listening through headphones until you’ve experienced the A16. And its precursor, the A8, did a pretty credible version of 3.0, quad and 5.1!

I've been reading the odd post about the "Realiser" lately. It sounds like something that might have huge potential, it almost sounds like science fiction. Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like an artificial way to generate a binaural signal, fine tuned to the listeners ears. Still I can't help but thinking that it would be best suited to gaming applications. If it provides not just realistic directional sound but quality sound as well then it might be great for music as well. I'm not ready to try it out for myself but I am interested in knowing more about it.

One question, the big problem with headphones is that they don't image in front, is that any different with the Realiser?

 

[gene_stl]

I can certainly see using streaming to try things out before you buy them. And there is also little doubt that a lot of the Atmos content (and other potentiallydesireable content , like Revolver )isn't even available on physical media. It just is not a proposition that works for my particular set of weirdness and cantakerousness.